Giancarlo Reanda

Giancarlo's experience includes advising:

• Divert, Inc., in a private placement financing with Nuveen Energy Infrastructure Credit to fund the development of an organic materials-to-renewable natural gas facility in Lexington, North Carolina
• A global asset management firm in a direct lending transaction to a company operating ports in Florida
• Citibank and Santander as global coordinators, HSBC, ING, JP Morgan, and Natixis as joint bookrunners, and Bladex (NY branch), Mizuho, Ramirez & Co., and Standard Chartered as co-managers, on Yinson Boronia Production B.V.’s 144A/Reg S offering of its US$1.035 billion 8.947% senior secured notes due 2042 to refinance the FPSO Anna Nery. This transaction received the Oil & Gas Financing of the Year award by LatinFinance
• Mizuho, as initial purchaser, and Banistmo, as local placement agent, on Panama Infrastructure Receivable Purchaser PLC’s offering of its US$1.4 billion Series 2024-2 senior secured notes due 2032, as part of a multi-tranche structure to finance the construction of the 4th bridge over the Panama Canal. This transaction received the Infrastructure Financing of the Year, Central America award by LatinFinance
• Lumina Capital Management (as investor for its managed accounts) as note purchaser, on Panama Infrastructure Receivable Purchaser PLC’s offering of its US$119 million Series 2024-1 senior secured notes due 2026, as part of a multi-tranche structure to finance the construction of the 4th bridge over the Panama Canal. This transaction received the Infrastructure Financing of the Year, Central America award by LatinFinance
• WhiteWater Midstream on the holdco financing of Whistler Pipeline, a 446-mile natural gas pipeline in Texas
• The asset management divisions of HSBC and Samsung, as purchasers, in connection with REDEN Solar’s two 4(a)(2) private placement notes in an aggregate principal amount of US$135 million to refinance the construction of two portfolios of solar projects in Chile
• Vitol, as sponsor, and VGMobility, as borrower, in a US$95 million multi-tranche financing to fund three e-bus concessions in Colombia. The financing included an accordion feature designed to allow VGMobility to add new projects to the structure, as well as a cross-currency and interest rate hedge
• Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, as joint global coordinators, joint bookrunners, and initial purchasers, and MUFG, SMBC, Societe Generale, CACIB, Siemens Financial Services, FDN, Bancolombia, and Banco Davivienda, as lenders, letter of credit issuers, and/or hedge providers in the Rumichaca-Pasto project, the largest-ever financing for a toll road in Colombia, the first to include a project-level letter of credit facility, and the first project bond investment by the IDB Group in Latin America. This transaction received the Infrastructure Financing of the Year, Andes award by LatinFinance
• Goldman Sachs as placement agent and AllianzGI as investor on the 4(a)(2) private placement US$419 million zero coupon note offering by Chile Electricity to finance the purchase from AES Gener, Enel Green Power, Engie, Colbun, and certain of their affiliates of electricity tariff receivables originating pursuant to the Chilean Tariff Stabilization Law
• Banco de Bogotá, Banco de Occidente S.A., Banco de América Central S.A., BAC International Bank, Inc., Banco de Bogotá, New York Agency, and other entities of Grupo Aval in connection with a future flow securitization of credit card and other air travel receivables of Taca International Airlines, S.A., guaranteed by Avianca Group International Limited, as part of the refinancing of certain existing financing facilities in the context of Avianca group’s chapter 11 restructuring process
• Astorg Partners in an acquisition by portfolio company IQ-EQ of Greyline Partners, an industry leading US provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, and investors
• Goldman Sachs, as arranger, bookrunner, and initial purchaser in connection with the issuance of Brazilian law bonds repackaged into a DFC-guaranteed 144A/Reg S bond financing for the public lighting and smart city service project in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The landmark transaction represents DFC’s first guaranty for a repack transaction in Latin America and its second guaranteed project bond in Latin America (Latin America PPP Deal of the year by Proximo, Latin America Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year by IJGlobal, Sustainability Project Bond of the Year by Environmental Finance)
• Goldman Sachs as the sole global coordinator, bookrunner, initial purchaser, and commitment provider on the US$489 million zero coupon note offering by Chile Electricity PEC to finance the purchase from AES Gener, Enel Green Power, Engie, Colbun, and certain of their affiliates of electricity tariff receivables originating pursuant to the Chilean Tariff Stabilization Law. This transaction received the Bond of the Year award by LatinFinance*
• Bank of America, Mizuho, and SMBC Nikko America in the US$400 million senior notes offering by Bladex Banco de Comercio Exterior (Bladex)*
• BNDES, the Brazilian development bank, on its sale of approximately 724 million common shares in Petrobras, valued at approximately US$5.2 billion, listed on stock exchanges in São Paulo and New York*
• Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo (COFIDE), the Peruvian state-owned development Bank, in the offering of US$500 million notes and intermediated tender offer for up to US$600 million aggregate maximum purchase price of COFIDE’s outstanding 4.750% notes due 2022 and 4.750% notes due 2025*
• Santander Investment Securities, as solicitation agent, in the successful consent solicitation to amend certain terms of the US$150 million notes of the City of Córdoba, the capital city of the Province of Córdoba, Republic of Argentina*
• CLISA - Compañía Latinoamericana de Infraestructura y Servicios, in connection with the exchange offer of its US$300 million 9.5% senior notes and related consent solicitation*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham