Christopher L Mann

Practice Areas

Infrastructure; Project Development & Finance; Foreign Investments and Trade Regulations; Capital Markets; Africa; Latin America; Credit & Leveraged Finance; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity

Career

Coordinates S&C’s global infrastructure practice and its sovereign finance practice. Core member of the Firm’s Latin America team and is co-head of both its international trade & investment/CFIUS practice and its Africa practice.

Represents sponsors, PE funds, infrastructure funds and sovereign wealth funds in infrastructure and natural resources investments, including significant M&A, joint ventures, and project development and financings. Also counsels clients with respect to matters related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Recent work highlights include: Electrify America in the $450 million investment by Siemens; Ampliform and the Jones Family Office as the lead energy investor in a joint venture with Prospect14; Teck Resources and Compañía Minera Teck Quebrada Blanca in the project financing of the Quebrada Blanca copper project in Chile; Gateway Project; Wren House’s acquisition of i3 Broadband and a minority stake in Phoenix Tower International; a member of a Macquarie-led consortium in the purchase of Long Beach Container Terminal from Orient Overseas; CPPIB’s acquisition of stakes in Enbridge’s renewables portfolio and the Camisea gas pipeline; bond offerings for LatAm sovereigns.

Judicial Clerk, Hon Ralph K Winter, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1989-90

Professional Memberships

Former Chair, Project Finance Committee (NYCBA). Firm Representative, Global Infrastructure Investor Association. Former President, Harvard Law School Association.

Personal

Harvard Law (JD, 1989); Cambridge (MPhil, 1987); Harvard (AB, 1985)