Alexandro M. PadresAlexandro M.Padres

Commercial and development banks on the Enel Green Power portfolio project financing of three solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in Mexico — Don Jose, Villanueva I and Villanueva III — with an aggregate project value of approximately $1 billion.

Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura (CIFI) as mandated lead arranger and Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), Nederlandse Maatschappij-Financierings voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO) and Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération Economique (PROPARCO) as lenders on the $110 million secured credit facility made available to Polaris Energy Nicaragua (PENSA) and San Jacinto Power International Corporation (SJPIC) as borrowers for the refinancing of their existing project finance debt in connection with PENSA’s operating 72 megawatt (net) geothermal power generating facility as well as the financing of the installation of a 10 megawatt (net) in-development binary plant addition thereto, located in Telica, Department of León, Republic of Nicaragua.

JPMorgan Chase Bank as lead arranger in connection with the bridge financing of the approximately $1.3 billion contemplated acquisition of the Chilean power transmission company Colbún Transmisión by Alfa Desarrollo, a special purpose vehicle 80% owned by APG Energy & Infra Investments, a part of the Dutch pension fund APG, and 20% owned by Celeo Redes, the power transmission operator owned by the Spanish company Elecnor.

J.P. Morgan Securities as sole global coordinator and joint bookrunner, and Citigroup Global Markets, Santander Investment Securities, SMBC Nikko Securities America as joint bookrunners, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $1.1 billion 4.55% senior secured notes due 2051 issued by Alfa Desarrollo (Alfa), a newly formed company wholly-owned indirectly by Celeo Redes and certain investment funds managed by APG to consummate the $1.35 billion acquisition of Colbún Transmisión, which will include the transfer of 899 kilometers of transmission lines and 27 substations that Colbún Transmisión operates in the Chilean Sistema Eléctrico Nacional (National Electric System), representing approximately 5% of the total transmission market in Chile.

Orion Resource Partners and The Blackstone Group, as lenders and investors, on the debt and equity financing of approximately $400 to $450 million of the Fruta del Norte gold and silver mining project in Ecuador.

Purchasers on a private placement of secured notes, in connection with the refinancing of the construction of the Longitudinal de la Sierra Norte Tramo 2 toll road project in Peru, wherein the notes are secured by the securitized payment rights due from the government of Peru to the concessionaire for the project, including negotiation of a purchase agreement for the underlying true sale transaction.

A syndicate of lenders on the financing of the construction by ENR, a subsidiary of Neoen (a subsidiary of Impala), of a 300 MWac solar photovoltaic project known as “El Llano,” to be located in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico, and related transmission lines.

Transelec Concesiones, an affiliate of Transelec, on the approximately $358 million loan facility and associated interest rate hedging for the individualized portfolio construction financing of four independent transmission lines (each with a capacity of between 2x220 kV and 2x500 kV) and four associated independent substations in Chile, with EDC, KfW IPEX-Bank and MUFG acting as mandated lead arrangers.

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