Ana Maria Rodriguez Polania

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Rodriguez Polania’s experience* includes:

• Advised IDB Invest in the financing to Tealov S.R.L., a Uruguayan special purpose company sponsored by Invenergy Renewables Global LLC to develop the Cardal transmission line project in Uruguay. The financing included a B-bond structure.
• Advised Termonorte S.A.S. in the refinancing of the existing project finance debt (US PP) for an operating 93 MW dual fuel power generating facility located in Santa Marta, Colombia.
• Advised Crédit Agricole CIB, Mizuho Bank, BNP Paribas and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in the refinancing of the existing debt of Cleanairtech Sudamérica S.A., a subsidiary of the Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CAP) group, used for the construction of a seawater desalination plant in Caldera, Chile.
• Advised Elecnorte in the financing of the construction of two 110kV transmission lines in Colombia.
• Advised Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional – FDN (National Development Bank), Instituto de Crédito Oficial – ICO (Spain), KfW IPEX-Bank, IDB Invest, Corporación Andina de Fomento – CAF (Latin American development bank), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC, Société Générale and BlackRock on the approximately USD 717.1 million dual-currency COP-USD financing. The financing is used for the construction, operation and maintenance of the Autopista al Mar 1 road project.
• Advised Blackrock, IDB Invest, the Inter-American Development Bank, Unión para la Infraestructura (UPI), Bancolombia, BBVA and Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional – FDN in the financing of an approximately USD 590 million project for the construction and operation of the toll road Bucaramanga, Barrancabermeja, Yondó.
• Represented Itaú Unibanco S.A., New York Branch, CDPQ, ING Capital, Banco Santander, Banco de Crédito del Perú, Banco Davivienda S.A. and Banco de Bogotá S.A., on the approximately USD 458 million financing for the development, construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of the Conexión Pacífico 2 toll-road project in the Antioquia region of the Republic of Colombia
• Advised Itaú BBA S.A., Banco de Crédito del Perú, Banco Davivienda S.A. and Corporación Andina de Fomento – CAF (Latin American development bank) in providing a USD 370 million loan for the construction of a multipurpose port facility and terminal in Cartagena Bay, Colombia.
• Advised Scania Colombia S.A.S as one of the lenders in the USD $107 million loan granted to Sociedad Operadora de Transporte Masivo de Cartagena by Proparco, Bancoldex and Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional – FDN (National Development Bank) to finance an urban public transport project in Cartagena, Colombia.

*Includes transactions prior to joining Milbank.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Rodiguez Polania earned her LL.M. from Harvard Law School.