OTHER JURISDICTIONS FIRM BRIEFINGS Consortium - Centro América Abogados
2012 Firm Overview Cross-border experience
Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Most active disciplines
Disputes: Public, Tax, Financial and corporate, White-collar crime Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Equipment/asset finance, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Renewables
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Defence, Education, Healthcare, Ports and shipping, Roads, Water and sewage
Key partners
José Evenor Taboada, Rodrigo Taboada, Samantha Aguilar, Brenda Martinez, Gerardo Hernandez, Carlos Taboada, Bertha X Ortega, Olga Barreto, Darliss Gordon, Martha L Icaza
Consortium - Centro América Abogados’ energy and infrastructure practices started in 1969 and today focuses on oil and gas, energy, min- ing, telecommunications, and construction. The firm is counseling Banpro – Banco de la Producción on a $160
million syndicated credit granted to Polaris Energy, which operates a wind power park. This ongoing counsel includes corporate, regulatory, financial, and banking advice. In January 2013, the firm advised FDG Mining Canada on the acquisition of four mining concessions from Exminicsa. The amount of the acquisition is undisclosed. Consortium Taboada provided corporate and regulatory advice to Re-Wind to de- sign and execute a 72MW wind power work valued at approximately $80 million. In May 2012, the firm advised Grupo Terra – UNO on the corporate, regulatory, labor, real estate and commercial aspects of the acquisition of Rubis Nicaragua, formerly Texaco Nicaragua, con- sisting of a national service station network, said to be worth millions.
Nuñez Rizo Zambrana Abogados
2012 Firm Overview Most active disciplines
Disputes: Financial and corporate Financial and corporate: Banking, M&A, Project finance Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax
Key energy sectors Mining and metals, Oil and gas
Key partners Ernesto Rizo, Regina Sandino, Rolando Zambrana
Nuñez Rizo Zambrana Abogados specializes in mining law and advises investors in obtaining administrative licenses, concessions, and autho- risations related to energy, oil, water, and industrial projects. Over the course of 2012, Nuñez Rizo Zambrana, advised Corazón Exploración in the acquisition of mining concessions northern Nicaragua and the termination of an option agreement to acquire a mining concession from a small miners’ cooperative from Central Nicaragua. In July 2012, the firm assisted Calibre Mining Corp with a concession agreement and acquisition. Calibre Mining entered into an agreement with an-
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other mining company to review and swap mutual mining concessions. Nuñez Rizo Zambrana drafted and negotiated with the legal depart- ment of the mining company the swap instrument and its conditions; and filed and structured the transaction with the mining authority.
PANAMA Alemán Cordero Galindo & Lee
2012 Firm Overview Cross-border experience
Mexico
Most active disciplines Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, Tax Financial and Corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Equipment/asset finance, Investment funds, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors Power networks and distribution, Renewables, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Bridges, Ports and shipping
Key partners Eloy Alfaro, Carlos Cordero, Alejandro Ferrer
Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee represents some of the largest national and international companies in Panama. They have a strong reputation for handling transactions involving international financing and the strict and very different regulations that govern the energy and infra- structure fields, some of which remain from when the Panama Canal was under US control. The firm’s infrastructure practice has had a busy few years working
on deals connected to Panama’s largest infrastructure project, the ex- pansion of the Panama Canal. The firm continues to represent the con- sortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal in their ongoing transaction worth $3.2 billion for the design and construction of the third set of locks for the Canal. In the energy practice, the firm has Alejandro Ferrer, who served as
Minister of Commerce – which has under its purview mining, oil and electricity – from 2004 to 2008. The firm itself has been involved in energy transactions since the industries’ privatization in 1997. Recently they represented their client Ideal Panama, a subsidiary of Carlos Slim’s Impulsora para el Desarrolllo del Empleo en América Latina, in a win- ning bid to construct two large-scale hydroelectric plants, valued at $400 million, and continue to advise on regulations connected to that deal.
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