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Carolina Walther-Meade is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and a member of the Global Project Finance Group and the Latin America Practice Group.
Ms. Walther-Meade has extensive experience in cross-border financings and international project finance and development, with an emphasis on infrastructure, mining and energy projects throughout Latin America. She has also been involved in numerous acquisition financings and structured financings in the region. Her practice includes representation of commercial bank syndicates, multilateral and export credit agencies and other lenders, as well as corporate developers and industrial groups. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, she spent one and a half years with Milbank based out of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
On the lender side, recent representations include the representation of the lenders providing financing for the acquisition of Amanco Holding Inc. and Petroquímica Colombiana by Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V., the acquisition of Grupo Convermex in Mexico, the lenders for the expansion of the Collahuasi copper mine in Chile, the lender group (including JBIC, KfW and commercial banks) in the Cerro Verde Sulfide Project in Peru, the lender group (including commercial banks, multilateral agencies and bondholders) in the Petrozuata Extra Heavy Oil Project in Venezuela, the lender groups for both the Madero Refinery Project and the Cadereyta Refinery Project in Mexico, the lenders in the project financing of the Milpillas copper mine in Mexico, the lenders in the refinancing of the Huepil transmission system in Chile and the underwriters in the Interoceanica Sur toll road project in Peru. On the sponsor side, recent representations include representation of the bidding consortium made up of CCR/Brisa/Hermes in the sale of toll roads owned by FARAC and being sold by the Mexican Government, representation of Graña y Montero, JJC Contratistas Generales and Besalco in the Panamericana Norte toll road project in Peru, representation of Petrobras and Edison in the Ibirité Power Project in Brazil, representation of TECO Power Services in the Alborada Power Project and the San José Power Project in Guatemala (both of which are coal fired facilities).
Carolina Walther-Meade grew up in Mexico and received a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of San Diego. | 