Ana Bueno

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Bueno’s practice focuses on providing New York law advice to Latin American corporations and US and Latin American banks in cross-border banking and finance, projects and project bonds. She has experience across a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, infrastructure, power and energy, financial services and telecommunications.

Among her recent representations:

• Syndicate of commercial lenders and development banks on a US$440 million senior debt financing to Terminal Química Puerto México, S.A.P.I. (TQPM), for the construction of an ethane import terminal for the receipt and storage of imported cryogenic ethane to be located in the Pajaritos Lagoon in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, and a pipeline to deliver ethane to Braskem Idesa's Etileno XXI petrochemical complex 12 kilometers away
• Lead arrangers in connection with a corporate refinancing for Esentia in Mexico
• Lenders in connection with the acquisition financing of 13 Mexican power plants from Spanish energy group Iberdrola for approximately US$6 billion (MXN102.34 billion) by an acquisition trust managed by Mexico Infrastructure Partners FF
• Lenders in the dual-currency financing for Caoba Inversiones, an investment platform developed through a joint venture between Colombian energy key player Celsia and Cubico Sustainable Investments (owned by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada’s largest single-profession pension plan and PSP Investments, one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers) to own, operate and develop power transmission assets with predictable and stable long-term cash-flows
• Syndicate of banks led by J.P. Morgan in the largest Rule 144A project bond offering in Brazil’s history, sponsored by Mubadala Capital, to finance the acquisition of Refinaria Landulpho Alves (RLAM), the second largest refinery cluster in Brazil, under Petrobras’ divestment program
• Mexarrend, a leading Mexican non-bank financial institution that provides financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Mexico to finance the purchase of assets and equipment, in a warehouse secured loan facility secured by equipment lease receivables
• The Bank of Nova Scotia, as lender, in the financing of the acquisition of Etenorte and Eteselva, two power transmission companies located in Peru, by Interconexion Electrica from I Squared Capital, which also controls Inkia Energy and has significant operations in Peru and Central America

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Bueno earned her J.D. from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas and her LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English.