Daniel D. Bartfeld

Dan Bartfeld is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm's Project Finance Group since 2001.

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Bartfeld's practice focuses primarily on the representation of financial institutions and developers in a wide range of oil/gas, petrochemical, renewable energy, mining, power and other infrastructure-related projects in Latin America and the US.  He has particular expertise in multi-sourced financings (including those through official credit agencies), as well as representation of Asian-based investors focusing on Latin America and the US.

His recent representations include:

• Representing project sponsors and lenders in over a dozen drillship, semi-submersible and FPSO transactions (primarily in Brazil).
• Representing a range of commercial bank lenders and export credit agencies in the financing of major power plants in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru and the Caribbean.
• Representing Asian-based investors in acquisitions and financings of large-scale mining, refinery and power-related assets throughout Latin America.
• Representing lenders and export credit agencies in a range of major LNG projects in the United States and Mexico.
• Representing project sponsors and lenders in infrastructure projects (including port projects) throughout Latin America.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Bartfeld is a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences, and has been recognized by a number of publications as one of the world's leading project finance lawyers (including Chambers Latin America (which ranks him in the 1^st tier of project lawyers in the world), Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500, etc.).  Dan is on the editorial board of IFLR.