Rodrigo Rojas Robleda

Rodrigo is member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He has vast experience providing legal counsel to clients in local and cross-border transactions. Rodrigo has participated in multiple financing mechanisms involving project sponsorships, project finance, lending, syndicated facilities, and financial leases, as well as in multiple cross-border and local M&A transactions.

• Represented IENova (a Sempra Company), as borrower, in the Mexican law aspects of the multilateral green loan financing by IFC/Nadbank for the development of four solar projects in Mexico
• Represented TAG Norte Holding (as issuer and borrower) and TAG Pipelines Norte (project developer), as well as the Sponsors (IEnova and Brookfield Infrastructure controlled companies), in the restructuring of the existing US$1.2 billion credit facility for the Los Ramones II Norte gas pipeline project, and the simultaneous issuance and placement of US$332 million of 5.04% Senior Notes due 2039 with private investors affiliated with Allianz Global Investors, through an innovative creditor/investor coexistence scheme developed for this transaction
• Represented Citigroup, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, BNP Paribas, JPMorgan Chase, and The Bank of Nova Scotia, acting as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners in a simultaneous syndicated credit facility and a Rule 144A / Reg. S bond offering to allow private equity fund Actis to successfully complete its acquisition of global power-generation company InterGen’s business interests in Mexico, including the purchase of 2,200 MWs in operation with six combined-cycle power generation projects, a 155 MW wind project with partner IEnova, a 65-kilometer natural-gas pipeline, and 3 natural gas-compression stations, for an enterprise value of US$1.256 billion. This is the first time that a project acquisition in Mexico of this size is executed with the use of bond proceeds. This transaction was named Best Infrastructure Financing in Mexico by Latin Finance in the Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards 2018.

• Banking
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Project development
• Project finance

• Banking
• Energy
• Financial services
• Investment management
• Utilities

• Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa, Colegio de Abogados (ANADE – Mexican Association of Business Lawyers)

• Mexico

• J.D. (law degree equivalent), Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico (2001)