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Partner, Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Practice Group Leader, and Latin America Practice Group Co-head

Dan Bartfeld is the practice group leader of the Milbank’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group and co-head of its Latin America practice. He has deep experience advising sponsors, lenders and multi-national companies around the globe, and has occupied the lead legal role in many of the most innovative and complex projects in Latin America, providing counsel in financings involving all major Mexican and international financial institutions, and many of the leading Mexican and international energy and industrial companies, with particular focus on all aspects of the expanding Mexican energy sector, from pipelines and power plants, to LNG and renewables. Many of the ground-breaking deals he has advised on in Mexico have contributed significantly to the country’s development. For example, he recently advised International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), one of the largest maritime operators in the world, on securing financing from international lenders for the development and expansion of the Port of Manzanillo, the largest port complex in Mexico. This development will help grow a vital Pacific Ocean hub at a time when trade between Asia and Latin America is deepening. In 2011, Bartfeld advised on the largest Korean-sponsored power plant ever developed in Latin America, signaling the importance of Mexico (and Latin America) to Korean companies and the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM), a key member of the consortia financing the project. Between 2014 and 2016, Bartfeld also led the Milbank team advising Fermaca’s lenders on three natural gas pipeline project financings in Mexico, with an aggregate value of nearly $2bn. These projects, which included a pipeline carrying natural gas from Texas to northern Mexico and two significant pipelines and associated facilities within Mexico, will play an important part in ensuring the country’s energy security as well as providing a market for US natural gas supplies.