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Sophisticated, technically grounded advice on complex infrastructure financings.
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We provide strategic and innovative legal advice, combining deep technical knowledge and multidisciplinary experience to enable sophisticated infrastructure financing operations.
Our specialized team advises clients across all infrastructure sectors, providing comprehensive support in the structuring and implementation of financing solutions for large-scale projects.
We work alongside sponsors, investment funds, financial institutions, export credit agencies, development banks, and multilateral organizations, from the definition of the funding strategy through the full structuring of the financing package. Our services include, among other matters, the preparation of bankability reports, contractual risk allocation matrices, and the negotiation of the documentation required to secure multi-source financing, including finance documents, security instruments, intercreditor arrangements, and common terms agreements.
We also advise clients on the drafting and negotiation of the project agreements to drive bankability, including those relating to initial CAPEX, helping to mitigate risk and strengthen the project’s financing structure.
In addition, we advise on financings, restructurings, refinancings, and waiver requests for greenfield and brownfield infrastructure projects.Practice
Legal services we offer to our clients.
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Financing Structuring
We advise sponsors, investment funds, financial institutions, export credit agencies, and multilateral banks throughout all stages of the financing process for infrastructure projects, from identifying funding sources and developing financing strategies to the implementation of the financing structure. Our services include the preparation of bankability reports, risk allocation matrices, and other analyses required to support the successful financing of infrastructure projects.
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Financing Documents
We draft and negotiate all documentation required to implement domestic and cross-border financing structures, including credit agreements, debenture issuances, common terms agreements, security documents, intercreditor arrangements, and other instruments related to the financing of project CAPEX and ongoing funding requirements.
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Restructuring and Refinancing
We advise clients on the renegotiation of existing financing arrangements, refinancing transactions, financial restructurings, and the procurement of required lender consents and approvals. Our experience includes the negotiation of waivers, amendments to financial covenants, and other adjustments necessary to align a project’s financing structure with its operational and strategic objectives.
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Awards and Recognition
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Lefosse is recognized by Legal 500 in Projects and Infrastructure (Latin America), consecutively since 2021.
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Our Project Finance practice has been recognized by Chambers Brazil every year since 2010.
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Our Project Finance practice has been recognized by Chambers Global every year since 2017.
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Lefosse is recognized by IFLR1000 in Project Finance (Brazil), consecutively since 2024.
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Lefosse is recognized by Leaders League Transactions & Deals in Project Finance (Brazil), consecutively since 2025.
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Financing Structuring
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5 lawyers found
Carla Rossi
Partner
Project Development, Project Finance, Infrastructure
Mariana Curtis
Lawyer
Infrastructure, Project Development, Project Finance
Miriam Signor
Partner
Mining, Infrastructure, Project Development, Project Finance