Louise Toledo Farias

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Farias’ practice focuses on advising project sponsors and financial institutions in a wide range of cross-border financings, international project financing and acquisition finance transactions with an emphasis on energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Among her recent representations: 

• Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, in connection with the agreement between Niagara Energy, a Peruvian company controlled by Actis, and Enel S.p.A subsidiaries Enel Américas S.A. and Enel Perú S.A.C., the latter controlled by Enel through the Chilean listed company Enel Américas, for the sale of all the equity stakes held by the Enel Group in power generation companies Enel Generación Perú S.A.A. and Compañía Energética Veracruz S.A.C.
• Actis’ subsidiary Valia Energía in connection with a US$530 million bond financing and related working capital facility to refinance existing debt of the MT Falcon and EVM assets in Mexico
• SUSI Partners, as sponsor, in connection with the financing of a 107MW portfolio of solar projects in Chile operating under Chile’s PMGD regime
• BNP Paribas and Société Générale in connection with a financing for Grenergy for the development of two solar projects located in Chile with an aggregate capacity of 290MW
• Banco Santander, S.A. in connection with an ECA-covered supplier credit facility involving Vestas-American Wind Technology, INC, as seller, in respect of payments from Prosperity Wind, LLC, as buyer in connection with the purchase of Vestas turbines for the Prosperity Wind project in Illinois
• EIG in its private credit investments in clean energy developer Avantus
• Lender in a term loan back-leverage financing in support of Coatue’s commitments with respect to the CoreWeave acquisition financing
• Saavi Energy Solutions, LLC in the lease of three gas turbines to NFE Power PR LLC, to be used by NFE Power PR LLC in connection with its provision of certain power generation services at the Palo Seco Power Plant, located in Puerto Rico
• Syndicate of commercial banks and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), as mezzanine lender, in connection with the financing of the Gatun LNG-to-power project (670MW) in Panama – the financing involved a US$700 million project-level loan and a US$200 million mezzanine loan to AES and InterEnergy, as sponsors
• EnfraGen, an indirect subsidiary of Glenfarne Group, in the US$1.7 billion bank/bond refinancing of a portfolio of renewable energy and conventional power projects across Chile, Panama and Colombia, which facility includes LC, working capital, flexible, acquisition and other tranches of debt – this was a pioneering multi-tranche, and multi-purpose, combined bank and Rule 144A/Reg S bond financing

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Farias earned her J.D. from Universidade Católica de Pernambuco and her LL.M. from the New York University School of Law. She has also obtained a post-graduate degree in Corporate Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School. Louise is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English.