FINANCE 
AND PROJECTS

Advice to clients in the development, financing, and regulatory discussions of infrastructure projects across various sectors, such as power, port terminals, airports, roads, railways, waterways (logistics), sanitation, oil and natural gas, and telecommunications.

Advice to multilateral organizations, development banks, and private financial institutions on various forms of infrastructure financing, including project finance, structured finance, working capital finance and acquisition finance.

We support both national and international clients in bidding processes and matters related to concessions, authorizations, public-private partnerships, and contracts.

In the project development phase, we provide advice to clients in connection with:

– Public bidding processes
– Structuring consortia for biddings (auctions)
– Insurance contracting (bid bonds, performance bonds, civil and engineering liability)
– Review of the bid document and concession contract
– Regulatory aspects related to the project
– Economic-financial balance and other project-related regulatory issues
– Project contracts (including supply, construction and O&M contracts)

In the project finance phase, we assist in:

– Structuring and modeling project funding
– Transactions involving the Brazilian development banks such as BNDES, BNB, and BASA (transfers, direct financing, and FINEM)
– Bank guarantees and counter-guarantees
– Capital market finance transactions (infrastructure/incentivized debentures)
– Review of collateral packages (including Equity Support Agreements and insurance)
– Regulatory aspects related to the project
– Project risk discussions and analysis of covenants, acceleration events, and specific project reps and warranties
– Green or ESG-certified project finance transactions