Jorge Kamine

Practice Areas

Jorge focuses his practice on a wide range of transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector globally with a particular emphasis on the debt and equity financing of projects and the structuring, acquisition and divestment of investments in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects and assets. He has broad experience across the energy industry, with particular experience with renewable and conventional power projects, LNG facilities, pipelines, and upstream oil and gas development, as well as experience with public-private partnerships and investments in transportation and other non-energy infrastructure.

Jorge has extensive finance experience advising sponsors and lenders in the project financing of individual and portfolios of projects, including financings provided by a wide range of international commercial banks, institutional investors, multilateral development banks and export credit agencies. He also has substantial experience advising clients on a wide range of financing structures - often involving complex and innovative structures - providing access to debt and equity financing during all phases of the life cycle of these projects from development capital to construction financing to term debt/back-leverage during operations, as well as a facilities providing, among others, working capital, tax equity bridge financing, letters of credit and VAT facilities, often involving first-of-its-kind and innovative structures. Jorge’s sponsor clients have included international power producers, public utilities, corporate and other strategic investors, private equity funds, infrastructure funds and other investment funds, and his lender clients have included a wide range of international commercial banks, development finance institutions and institutional investors.

Jorge also has extensive M&A experience representing both buyers and sellers in a wide range of equity and asset sale transactions involving energy and infrastructure projects, and significant experience structuring and negotiating a variety of strategic equity investments, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions related to the development and operation of energy and infrastructure projects.

His geographic experience includes work on matters in over 25 countries throughout the world with significant experience handling matters and transactions across the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Personal

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1998

Rice University, B.A. (cum laude), 1995

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