Transaction Experience
Energy
Client: Bridas Corp.
Size: $3.75 billion
Advised Bridas Corporation in its multi-billion dollar merger with Amoco Oil's (today BP) South American operations, creating PanAmerican Energy
Client: Diamond Shamrock, Inc
Size: NA
Advised Diamond Shamrock and their local partners in the sale of its Bolivian oil and gas assets to Vintage Petroleum, for an undisclosed amount
Client: Electricidade de Portugal
Size: $534 million
Advised Electricidade de Portugal - EDP in its $534 million acquisition of controlling interests in Escelsa and Enersul (electric distribution companies of Espirito Santo and Matto Grosso do Sul in Brazil ) from Opportunity Fund and other investors
Client: FirstEnergy Corp
Size: $435 million
Advised FirstEnergy Corp (NYSE: FE) in its $435 million acquisition of Emdersa (electric distribution companies of the provinces of San Luis, Salta and La Rioja in Argentina)
Client: La Electricidad de Caracas
Size: $1.8 billion
Advised Electricidad de Caracas, the largest Venezuelan private utility, in its $1.8 billion sale (75%) to AES Corp (NYSE: AESC, following AES's unsolicited $863 million offer for 51% of EDC stock
Client: Province of Mendoza, Argentina
Size: $496 million
Advised the Province of Mendoza in its $496 million sale of Edemsa ( Mendoza 's electric ditribution company) to a consortium led by Electricite de France in an open privatization process
Client: PSEG/Sempra Energy
Size: NA
Advised PSEG (NYSE: PEG) and Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) in their acquisition of the remaining 25% of Luz del Sur, an electricity distribution company, in a public tender offer in Peru
Client: PSEG/Sempra Energy
Size: $880 million
Advised PSEG (NYSE: PEG) and Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), two US based energy companies, in their $880 million acquisition of Chilquinta Energia from a private investor group, followed by a public tender offer in Chile for the minority shareholders
Client: PSEG
Size: $433 million
Advised PSEG, a $28 billion energy company based in New Jersey (NYSE: PEG), in its $433 million acquisition of Saesa and Frontel, two electric distribution companies controlled by Grupo Angellini in Chile
Client: Reliant Energy
Size: NA
Advised Reliant Energy (NYSE: RRI) in the evaluation of its Latin American business, which led to its ultimate divestiture
Client: TransCanada Pipelines
Size: NA
Advised TransCanada Pipelines (NYSE:TRP) in the divestiture of its Latin American subsidiaries in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela
Client: TXU Corp
Size: NA
Advised TXU Corp (NYSE: TXU) in its acquisition of a gas distribution business in Mexico City in a privatization
Client: Venezuelan Government
Size: NA
Advised the Venezuelan government on the restructuring of the electric sector and the breakup and proposed sale of Planta Centro