Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Finance, Corporate/Securities, Latin America

Partner

Ms. Rodríguez has a transactional practice concentrated on a broad range of domestic and international corporate, finance, energy and real estate transactions in a variety of sectors. Ms. Rodríguez has extensive experience working in the Latin American countries, where she has represented clients in all sectors. Her domestic and international work includes acquisitions, dispositions, secured and unsecured lending transactions, joint venture and similar arrangements, project finance and other structured finance mechanisms as well as all types of contracts, such as gas supply agreements, mining agreements, and distribution agreements.

She has worked in substantially all of the Latin American countries and established very good working relationships with leading foreign counsel in Latin America. Her practice, in the United States as well as in Latin America, is multi-faceted and includes negotiations, document preparation and review, and working with domestic and foreign local counsel.

Currently, Ms. Rodríguez is serving as lead US counsel to a developer/sponsor in its negotiations of a shareholder agreement and a related option to subscribe shares and subscription agreement in connection with a solar energy project in Chile. She is also serving as lead counsel to a Guatemalan company in its arrangements to assign gas transportation capacity and shipping rights from Texas into the interior of Mexico to a Mexican shipper, and last year represented this same client in the negotiation of the underlying contracts for such gas transportation capacity and rights with the gas pipeline owner and operator. During the last year, Ms. Rodríguez has also served as lead counsel to a Mexican client in the acquisition of the controlling interest of a US financial institution. 

Recently, Ms. Rodríguez served as lead development counsel to Parque Eólico El Arrayán, a 115 MW windpower project, in Chile that closed in 2012. She also served as counsel to the InterAmerican Development Bank on the restructure of Celpa, a Brazilian public utility, which transaction was awarded the Restructuring Deal of the Year for 2012 by Latin Lawyer. She also served as lead counsel to Sinopec in its acquisition of Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s oil and gas business in Argentina in a US$2.5 billion stock transaction that closed in February, 2011. This transaction was selected as “Runner-up” for the Latin America 2011 Deal of the Year. She was also lead US counsel to Hercules Offshore Drilling Corporation in its sale of its drilling business in Venezuela in an asset transaction. 

English, Fluent in Spanish (native speaker) and is also bicultural

State Bar of Texas Member, Professionalism Committee Former Member, Opportunities for Minorities and Women in the Profession National Hispanic Bar Association Houston Bar Association Member, Section of International Law Member, Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession Hispanic Bar Association of Houston Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston Member, Past Chair of the Judicial Screening Committee Texas Diversity Council Former Member, Board of Directors Goodwill Industries of Houston Board of Trustees The Networking Idea One of Initial Members of Professional Networking Group for Hispanic Women Attorneys in Houston, Texas

JD, 1980, University of Houston Law Center, cum laude, Editor, Houston Law Review, 1979-1980, Order of the Barons, Phi Delta Phi BA, 1971, University of Houston, summa cum laude