Nilo J. Barredo

Associate

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Currently representing Barclays Capital Inc. as dealer manager in connection with the debt restructuring consisting of an exchange offer and restructuring consent solicitation of Transportadora de Gas del Norte S.A., an Argentine operator of natural gas pipelines.
• Currently representing the initial purchasers in connection with an offering of approximately $200 million of Rule 144A/Regulation S notes by an Argentine power generation company.
• Currently representing a Mexican infrastructure company in connection with an offering of equity under Rule 144A of the Securities Act.
• Currently representing an Argentine utility company in connection with the offering of American Depositary Shares and related listing in the United States national stock exchange.
• Currently representing the Committee of Bondholders in connection with the restructuring of outstanding of an Argentine private utility company.
• Represented Transportadora de Gas Internacional S.A. E.S.P., Colombia’s largest natural gas pipeline company, in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $750 million 5.700% senior notes due 2022 and in a offer purchase for cash of, and solicitation of consents in relation to, and subsequent optional redemption of, its subsidiary TGI International Ltd’s 9.50% senior notes due 2017.
• Represented the Province of Chubut, a province of Argentina, in connection with its offering of $185,000,000 9.5% secured amortizing notes due 2022 pursuant to Rule 144A/Regulation S under the Securities Act . Payments on the notes were secured by certain natural gas royalty payments.
• Represented Empresa de Energia de Bogota S.A. E.S.P., a Colombia's energy company, in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $610 million 6.125% senior notes due 2021 and in connection with the optional redemption of its 8.75% senior notes due 2014.
• Represented Corporación Andina de Fomento and a group of commercial banks in connection with a $239 million A/B loan project financing for the construction and operation of a soybean crushing facility and associated co-generation plant in Argentina. The sponsors of the project are Glencore International, Molinos Rio de la Plata and Vicentin.
• Represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as initial purchasers in a Rule 144A offering of $100 million 8-year notes by Compañia de Transporte de Energía Eléctrica en Alta Tensión TRANSENER S.A., Argentina's largest power transmission company, and as dealer-managers in connection with an offer by Transener to purchase for cash and/or exchange for a combination of cash and new notes, together with a consent solicitation of proxies to amend certain existing Rule 144A/Regulation S notes due 2016.
• Represented Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P. (ISA) in connection with its acquisition of a controlling interest in Cintra Chile Ltda., a company formerly controlled by the Ferrovial Agroman Group that operates five major toll-road concessions in Chile.
• Represented Gas Natural de Lima y Callao S.A., a Peruvian natural gas distribution company controlled by Ashmore Energy International, in connection with a $150 million secured financing by International Finance Corporation, Corporación Andina de Fomento and Infrastructure Crisis Fund (ICF) for the expansion and upgrade of Lima’s main gas distribution system, the expansion to Lima’s low-pressure secondary gas distribution system, and the refinancing of existing senior debt.
• Represented Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A. in connection with its offering of 10.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 pursant to Rule 144A and Regulation S of the United States Securities Act of 1933. This offering was cited as the "Structured Financing Deal of the Year in 2011" by Latin Finance.
• Represented Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as dealer-manager in connection with a tender offer with respect to $100 million in Rule 144A notes of Empresas Iansa S.A., Chile's largest sugar producer.
• Represented Empresas Iansa S.A. in connection with the redemption of its 7.25% Notes due 2012.
• Represented Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) in its offering of $250 million 5.50% Notes due 2020 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S of the United States Securities Act of 1933.
• Represented Pan American Energy LLC, Argentine Branch, in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $500 million 10-year Notes under its $1.2 billion Rule 144A/Regulation S Global Note program.
• Represented ISA Capital do Brasil S.A. in connection with debt restructurings consisting of (i) a consent solicitation with respect to its $354 million Senior Notes due 2017 and its $200 million Senior Notes due 2012 and (ii) a tender offer with respect to all of its outstanding $354 million Senior Notes due 2017 and concurrent redemption of all of its outstanding $200 million Senior Notes due 2012.
• Represented BCP Securities LLC and Banco de Valores as placement agents under the Financial Trusts program established by the Province of Chubut in Argentina pursuant to which the trust issued Notes exempt from registration under the Securities Act in the international capital markets. Payments on the notes were secured by certain natural gas royalty payments.
• Represented Terra-Gen Power in the approximately $1.2 billion financing for four wind energy projects totaling 570 megawatts of capacity at Terra-Gen’s Alta Wind Energy Center in Tehachapi/Mojave, California. Financing included approximately $580 million worth of pass-through certificates issued to institutional investors under Rule 144A, an approximately $500 million construction bridge loan facility, and approximately $120 million of other credit facilities.
• Represented J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Barclays Capital Inc. as initial purchasers in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $1.5 billion 10-year Notes by Ecopetrol S.A., a Colombia state-owned oil and gas company. It was LatinFinance's Quasi-Sovereign Bond Deal of the Year in 2009.
• Represented Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Barclays Capital Inc. and RBS Securities Inc. as lead book runners in the $385 million offering of Senior Notes issued by Southeast Supply Header, LLC in connection with construction of its natural gas pipeline. 
• Represented the Committee of Bondholders of Cap Cana S.A.'s Senior Secured Notes due 2013 in connection with Cap Cana's debt restructuring involving an exchange offer and consent solicitation.
• Represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Banc of America Securities LLC, as initial purchasers in the $500 million offering of Senior Notes issued by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC in connection with the expansion of its natural gas pipeline.
• Represented Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., as initial purchaser of $220 million of Senior Secured Notes issued by Newland International Properties, Corp., a Panamanian company, to finance the construction of the Trump Ocean Club in Panama City, Panama.

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