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Andy Dietderich is a transactional lawyer with broad expertise in capital markets offerings, project development and finance, leveraged finance, negotiated acquisitions and restructuring matters. Mr. Dietderich's clients include leading investment banks, private investment funds, family offices and industrial companies. He is a member of multiple practice groups within the Firm, including its corporate finance, project finance, structured finance, private equity, and restructuring and insolvency groups. Selected Transactions Mr. Dietderich's recent work includes: representing the sponsors, project company or lenders in leading project financings, including the pending CGN nickel project (Guatemala); the financing of the new Meadowlands stadium for the New York Giants (U.S.); the Alaska natural gas pipeline (U.S. and Canada); the Bulyanhulu gold mine (Tanzania); the Intersur toll road (Peru); the Veladero gold mine (Argentina); the Merey Sweeny coker (U.S.); the Cantarell nitrogen injection project (Mexico); the Camisea pipeline (Peru); the EVM and Cabiunas financings (Brazil); and the El Abra copper mine (Chile); representing staple finance providers, arrangers, ABS underwriters, commodity hedge providers, financial sponsors, management buy-out participants and selling companies in acquisition financings of all types, including the sellers in the LBO financings for Bell Canada, Clear Channel Communications, TXU and Aramark, the CMBS lenders in the LBO financing for Harrah's, the bank lenders in acquisition financings for Transmontaigne and Berry Plastics, staple providers in the asset-backed LBO financings for Hertz and Neiman Marcus, the forward-starting swap providers in ECP's acquisition of the competitive generation business of Northeast Utilities, and the acquiring sponsors in the acquisition financings for Barclay's investment in Natural Gas Partners, various Goldman Sach PIA portfolio companies and Vornado's bid for Equity Office Properties; the design of hybrid securities and new capital markets products, including the 2007 offering of contingent hybrid capital by The Hartford through the Glen Meadow Pass-Through Trust; the 2006 and 2007 offerings of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Callable Perpetual Debentures by subsidiaries of CEMEX; and the initial hybrid offerings by BNSF "C" basket ICONs product by Merrill Lynch), Capital One (the first bank holding company "D" basket enhanced trust preferred), JPMorgan, Nelnet, Dominion Resources, and Southern Union; representing acquirors and sellers in negotiated M&A transactions, including the acquisitions of GMACCH (U.S.), Telefonica S.A. (Argentina), Globo.com (Brazil), and Gener (Chile) and pending distressed investments in the United States; the restructuring and reorganization of distressed or failing businesses, including the restructuring of the THAN subsidiaries of Philips and the Arkema subsidiaries of Total and pending work with the financial guarantee insurance industry; representing arrangers or borrowers in loan, securitization and equity financings of all types, including asset-backed, mortgage-backed, conventional leveraged loan and high-yield, mezzanine and hybrid financings and rights offerings in the United States and many foreign jurisdictions; and representing Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Barclays, HSBC and other financial institutions in proprietary structured investments in financial assets and various private merchant banking investments. Rankings and Recognition Mr. Dietderich has been recognized as a leading lawyer in: Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers (2007, 2006) and The Lawdragon 500 - Leading Lawyers in America (finalist, 2007). | 