About

With experience in both private practice and the public sector (notably as director general of legal affairs at the Ministry of the Presidency), Daniel Urbina moved in-house in 2000, occupying a number of positions at Standard Chartered Bank. In 2008 he became general counsel at Inkia Energy and since 2011 has been general counsel for the Americas at parent company IC Power, which (outside Peru), has holdings in Chile, Bolivia, Panama, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. Urbina has led on the legal strategy, planning and oversight of significant projects, including the conversion of the Central Kallpa power plant into a combined-cycle generator, and the development of the 527MW Cerro del Águila hydroelectric plant, involving a $591m debt-financing (obtained ‘during a period of debt market uncertainty’), and which would be recognised by Project Finance magazine as the 2012 Latin American power deal of the year. He and his team have also been active in transactional matters, including the 2011 cross-border acquisition of Central Cardones (formerly Tierra Amarilla) in Chile, and more recently the $186.5m acquisition of Duke Energy’s Las Flores plant in late 2013. Urbina’s responsibilities also cover corporate governance and litigious matters across the group’s regional holdings.