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.

Her recent representations include:

• The lenders in connection with Atlas Renewable Energy’s landmark US$3 billion refinancing of its renewable energy portfolio across Latin America, the largest ever private financing for non-conventional renewable energy in Latin America, which was executed with the support of Atlas’s sponsor Global Infrastructure Partners.
• The lenders in connection with the US$780 million financing of the acquisition, by BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners entities, of 70% of Vale S.A.’s equity interests in Aliança Geração de Energia, S.A., with a renewable energy portfolio with a total installed capacity of nearly 1.3 GW in Brazil.
• An Actis fund in connection with the financing of the acquisition of a portfolio of 416 km of toll roads in Colombia, marking Actis’ first Latin American toll roads platform.
• A syndicate of commercial lenders and development banks in connection with a US$440 million senior debt financing to Terminal Química Puerto México, S.A.P.I., 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.
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in connection with a US$100 million warehouse facility, with the initial disbursement used to finance the development of a hydroelectric power plant located in the Corongo, Yanca and La Pampa Districts in the Province of Corongo, Departamento of Ancash, Peru.
• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch in connection with a US$130 million revolving and term loan facility entered into in connection with the acquisition by Boldyn of Apogee Telecom, LLC, a leading provider of on-campus connectivity infrastructure in the US Higher Education industry.
• The lead arrangers in connection with a corporate refinancing for Esentia in Mexico.
• The 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.
• The lenders in connection with 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.
• 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 connection with a warehouse secured loan facility secured by equipment lease receivables.

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.