About

Number of years practice: 12

Principal practice areas: Energy and infrastructure, project finance

Bar admissions: New York

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Jaime Ramirez is a partner in the New York office of Milbank and a member of the firm’s global project, energy and infrastructure finance group. His practice focuses primarily on representing parties in the acquisition, development and financing of large scale natural resource and infrastructure projects. His experience also includes the representation of investment banks and borrowers in cross-border financing transactions, particularly in Latin America.

His recent work in Mexico includes representations of Allianz and a commercial bank group in connection with the bank/bond re-financing of the Fermaca El Encino-La Laguna Pipeline, a natural gas transportation pipeline extended approximately 420km in length located in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Durango; BlackRock in connection with the bank/bond financing to develop, own and operate the Petacalco coal transport and storage service in the western states of Michoacán and Guerrero (as well as to upgrade Lázaro Cárdenas Port’s logistics); and the lenders in the financing of the Tierra Mojada Power Plant, an approximately 875 MW combined cycle gas plant located in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Ramirez serves as a member of the Inter-American Affairs Committee of the New York Bar Association.