backCorporate Finance and Investment partners Fradyn Suárez (Miami), Sheel Patel (New York) and counsel Jessica Mendoza (Miami) will speak at the IJGlobal’s IJ LATAM 2023 on March 13-15 in Miami. Fradyn will moderate a panel on, “Crossing Borders, Connecting Communities: Demand and Opportunities for Ports, Roads, and Rail,” Sheel on “Structuring Hybrid Financing Solutions for Digital Infrastructure, Municipal Projects, and Smart Cities,” and Jessica on “Financing the Energy Transition: What Role will the Private Markets Play?”
On March 15, Fradyn Suárez will moderate a panel focused on “Crossing borders, connecting communities: demand and opportunities for ports, roads, and rail” as part of the conference’s supercharging transport & social infrastructure investments segment. The panel will include:
- Emilio Andrade, Head of Latin Amercia at Ardian
- Oscar Chanona Garciam, Head of Legal Operations at ICA
- Mathew Wagner, Director Business Development LATAM at STRABAG
Key areas of focus for the discussion are:
- Examining transport pipelines across the region
- How does local technical expertise improve a project’s prospects and ease construction risk?
- Is there a ‘best practice’ for tender timelines and risk sharing? Where is this taking place, and what learnings can be extracted?
- To what extent are effective concession structures replicable across the region?
- When and where are investment-grade opportunities in roads, rail, and seaports expected?
- Where are these assets in the cycle?
On the same day, Sheel Patel will moderate a panel focused on “Structuring hybrid financing solutions for digital infrastructure, municipal projects, and smart cities” in the same supercharging transport & social infrastructure investments segment. Sheel’s panel will be joined by:
- Christian Velasco, Investment Director at AMP Capital
- Geneviève Maltais-Boisvert, Managing Director at DigitalBridge
- Fernando Gana Barroilhet, Chief Executive Officer at Grupo Gtd
The discussion will cover the topics such as:
- Assessing the long-term financial viability of projects integrating digital infrastructure, public services and green energy.
- Most of these types of projects have been on a lower municipal level – to what extent are they scalable?
- What role are the capital markets playing?
- Will M&A and acquisition finance continue to dominate deal flow?
- How cyclical are these assets?
- Structuring these assets: reconciling corporate and project finance to provide hybrid and umbrella financing solutions.
- How are banks reacting to these financing challenges?
On March 13, Jessica Mendoza is moderating a panel focused on “Financing the energy transition: what role will the private markets play?” as part of the conference’s renewables spotlight segment. Jessica’s panel will be joined by:
- Sergio Arbeláez, Head of Financing at Matrix Renewables
- Marcelo Bretón, CFO at Ventus Energía
- Mauricio Carvajal, Investment Head at Actis
- Igor Cadete Fonseca, Head of Power, Project Finance at Santander
Panel discussion will target topics such as:
- How is political volatility impacting financing conditions?
- What impact is higher inflation and interest rates having on the origination, structuring, and closing of transactions changing?
- Gauging the impact of higher capital costs on deal volumes, greenfield activity and M&A
- How supportive is public policy?
- What auctions are in the pipeline?
- How are net zero pledges impacting a recovering sector
- To what extent can the natural resource markets support domestic renewables generation?
- Where will new financing sources come from?
More information can be found here.