Paul Hastings Wins at 2022 LatinFinance Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards

Paul Hastings' Energy and Infrastructure team won Loan of the Year at the 2022 LatinFinace Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards, recognizing the best of the past twelve months in Latin America energy and infrastructure finance and investment. 

Paul Hastings was recognized for its work advising Natixis and SMBC in the US$740 million senior financing of an approximately 670 megawatt combined cycle gas-to-power project. This financing closed simultaneously with the GIP HoldCo financing, on which our Paul Hastings team also worked, bringing over $1 billion in capital funding to the Panama’s energy sector.  

The transactional team included Paul Hastings lawyers Alexandro Padrés, Gregory Tan, Joyce Xu, Maria Leonor Tobia, Matthew Smith, Rita Ghanem, Petra Plasilova, Bruna Rey, Anna Barbosa, Juan Martin Estrada, and Eduardo Morandé.