Kharla Aizpurua

Practice Areas

Ms. Aizpurua Olmos mainly advises clients in domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Also, she has been involved on matters pertaining to syndicated lending, project finance, governmental infrastructure projects (including transportation and energy), securitization, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, services related to the telecommunications sector, startups and e-commerce, compliance and data protection.

Career

Prior to joining Morgan & Morgan, Ms. Aizpurua Olmos obtained experience as a junior associate in the Corporate Law Department of Garrigues, Tax and Legal Advisers in Madrid-Spain, focusing on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and project finance, and securities matters.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Aizpurua is in the board of directors WIP Panama (women in the legal profession), Panamanian chapter of Women in the Profession Program of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice of the New York Bar Association.

Publications

She has served as a speaker at conferences related to data protection and has participated as author of several articles and publications related to this topic.

Work Highlights

Recent relevant experience includes among others:

Advising Generadora de Gatun, S.A., and AES Panama in connection with the financing of a new natural gas-fired power plant.

Advising Banistmo S.A., as facilities agent and administrative agent, in a multimillionaire financing agreement related to Line 3 of Panama´s City Metro System, one of the largest public infrastructure projects in Panama.

Advising Banistmo, S.A., with respect to a US$4million Project Finance to Solar Development Panamá, S.A., for the construction, operation and maintenance of the solar photovoltaic power plant “Santiago Gen 1” with an installed capacity of 5MW.

Advising the original lenders in the refinancing and takeout of the original credit facility for the construction, operation and maintenance of the second phase of the Penonomé wind power project.

Advising Mercandú, a startup based in El Salvador, in designing the corporate structure and Seed investment round of US$1,500,000.00.