Holland & Knight's Mexico Energy Practice

Mexico Energy Practice Holland & Knight's Mexico Energy Practice has extensive experience and practical knowledge on energy projects sector-wide, accumulating more than 100 years of aggregated experience in a variety of areas, including:                     

oil and gas electricity (conventional and renewable) liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) biofuels government procurement public bids and contracts permits and authorizations antitrust proceedings project finance power generation mergers and acquisitions (M&A) operations and maintenance (O&M) structured finance real estate and agrarian land regulation transmission and distribution ducts exploration and production distribution, import and export of energy environmental and social impact tenders and permits

ROLE IN THE MEXICAN ENERGY INDUSTRY With decades of experience in the Latin America region, our Mexico Energy Practice has a keen understanding of the energy sector and represent all types of companies in the oil and gas, mining and electric sectors, including local industry participants and state-owned entities. The experience of our team in energy projects includes the participation in more than 500 energy projects and cases, which has provided them first-hand knowledge of all parts and activities of the energy sector in Mexico. Our Mexico Energy Practice collaborates dynamically with our Corporate and Financial Services practices, which enables us to participate in a wide range of important energy projects, including public contracts and government procurement, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganization, financial restructurings, and regulatory and environmental matters related to the energy sector. This positions us to address client goals with full-service representation and value-added services, as shown by the selected representative transactions below.

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REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Representation of Government Entities  Designed oil and gas agreements for the Mexican oil industry  Designed and implemented regulations related to the up, mid and downstream of oil and gas operations  Represented the Mexican government in the constitutional challenges resulting from the 2008 oil and gas energy reforms  Represented state-owned oil, gas and electric companies in a wide range of disputes and negotiations regarding infrastructure, public contracts and energy matters  Negotiation on behalf of the Mexican government of all the legal aspects needed for the construction and implementation of the Manzanillo LNG terminal and port project  Represented the governments of several Mexican states, including Aguascalientes and Chiapas, in the legal reform needed to implement projects under the Service Providing Project (PPS) model at the state and municipal level Representation of Banks  Representation of the North American Development Bank in a financing to the sponsor of a 54megawatt (MW) wind project in Tamaulipas, Mexico  Representation of NAES Corp. in connection with the project financing as well as the negotiation and documentation of an operation and maintenance agreement related to the Tuxpan II power plant project  Represented Bank of America, as administrative agent, letter of credit issuer and a lender in a US$50 million syndicated credit facility, including an Export-Import Bank-guaranteed revolving credit facility, to finance the export by Texas-based Drillmec Inc. of three land oil drilling rigs to Pemex Exploración y Producción (Pemex) in Mexico  Represented the consortium created with Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., and the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) in the public tender for a potential financing of US$375 million for the creation of a project company by Mitsubishi Corp. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Inc., as sponsor, to take out the construction, ownership and operation of a combined cycle gas turbine plant and related facilities in El Encino, southwest of the city of Chihuahua in Mexico; the project represented an investment of approximately US$535 million, with the capital contributions of the sponsors totaling US$160 million  Represented a Middle East capital fund in the investment of a geothermal energy project with a capacity of 400 MW  Represented Martifer Solar in the development in a solar energy project of approximately 62.5 MW for one of the winners of Mexico's inaugural long-term electric power auction  Advised JBIC for the financing of the Altamira II project for the construction, operation and maintenance of 495-MW, combined-cycle gas plants sponsored by Électricité de France International (EDFI) and Mitsubishi in the amount of US$450 million (named top 2002 Latin American Energy Project by Project Finance magazine) Renewable and Natural Resources Projects  Representation in all type of financings to participants in solar, wind and waste-to-energy sectors  Representing the North American Development Bank in the financing of a biomass project in the city of Monterrey

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 Representation of the sponsor of a 200-MW wind farm in Mexico  Representation of the sponsor of a 400-MW wind farm in Mexico, the largest in Latin America  Representing the sponsor of a 20-MW solar project in Sonora, for which the state of Sonora is the offtaker  Representing the developer of a 50-MW solar project in Sonora  Representing the developer of a 30-MW solar project in Chihuahua  Representing the developer of a 22-MW solar project in Zacatecas  Represented the developer of a hybrid solar farm and thermoelectric project of 70 MW  Negotiated construction contracts for the development of waste water treatment infrastructure and systems for the interconnection of water treatment plants with the state of Chiapas water system Power Generation  Representation in all type of financings to participants in the electric sector  Assisted a sponsor of a 985-MW thermoelectric project in all regulatory matters related to the negotiation of the first power purchase agreement (PPA) under the current regulation with CFE Calificados  Provided legal advice to a company's board members regarding possible investment in potential geothermal projects to be developed in Latin America  Represented participants in Mexico's Wholesale Power Market auctions with 18 projects and a total installed capacity of 750 MW, representing more than 10 percent of the final prequalified bidders Oil and Gas  Representation of a number of diverse participants in the oil and gas sector in all type of regulatory and financing aspects  Representing the sponsor of an extension of the 75-kilometer Mayakan pipeline in Mexico  Representation of Grupo ICA in the structuring, negotiation and execution of a Joint Venture Agreement in connection with the submission of bid for an oil drilling agreement with Pemex for the Burgos Drilling Project in northern Mexico  Advised several bidders on the Rounds One and Two bidding processes called by Mexico's National Hydrocarbons Commission  Advised Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica and its subsidiary in the U.S. in the negotiation of a natural gas transmission services agreement of a cross-border gas pipeline between Mexico and the state of Texas.  Served as primary legal counsel for environmental compliance for the constructors of the Los Ramones natural gas pipeline, Phase One  Served as primary legal counsel for all environmental and social impact issues regarding the construction and operation of the Transoceanic natural gas and LPG pipeline.

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OUR ENERGY TEAM Carlos Ochoa Partner | Mexico City T +52.55.3602.8012 carlos.ochoa@hklaw.com Experience: hklaw.com/carlos-ochoa/

Alejandro Landa Thierry Partner | Mexico City T +52.55.3602.8002 alejandro.landa@hklaw.com Experience: hklaw.com/alejandro-landa/

José Antonio Prado Partner | Mexico City T +52.55.3602.8003 joseantonio.prado@hklaw.com Experience: hklaw.com/jose-prado/

Héctor Velasco Perroni Senior Counsel | Mexico City +52.55.3602.8039 hector.velascoperroni@hklaw.com Experience: hklaw.com/hector-velasco-perroni/

Alberto Esenaro Associate | Mexico City +52.55.3602.8028 alberto.esenaro@hklaw.com

Experience: hklaw.com/alberto-esenaro-arteaga/

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