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Number of years practice: 24 Principal practice areas: Projects and energy, project finance Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English

Daniel Bartfeld is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and is the global practice group leader of the firm’s global project, energy and infrastructure finance group (which has over 100 project finance-dedicated lawyers) and co-head of the firm’s Latin America practice. His practice focuses primarily on the representation of financial institutions, investment firms, multinational companies and developers in a wide range of oil and gas, power, energy and transportation infrastructure-related projects in Latin America. He has led the Milbank team in many of the largest and most high-profile project financings in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and throughout the region and has particular expertise in multi-sourced transactions, as well as representation of US, Asian and European-based investors focusing on project development, financing and M&A activities. Bartfeld has acted on almost all of the recent gas pipeline projects in Mexico (and from the US to Mexico), including the current refinancing of the El Encino-La Laguna Pipeline (2018), Aguascalientes-La Laguna Pipeline (2016), Villa de Reyes-Aguascalientes-Guadalajara Pipeline (2016), Sasabe-Samalayuca Pipeline (2016), Nueva Era Pipeline (2015-2016), El Encino-La Laguna (2015), Waha Pipelines (2015), SeaNG’s proposed compressed natural gas project (2015), and the Chihuahua Pipeline (2014). He has also acted on a number of Pemex-related projects, including the current financing of a Naptha Splitter Project; multiple project financings of Grupo R’s drillship and semi-submersible units for offshore exploration/production (2014-2018); Global Water in connection with the Akal-C project (water/oil separation project 2016/17); and Cotemar in multiple financings of its accommodation vessels (2014-2018). His other recent representations include many of the most significant power projects in Mexico, including the acquisition by Actis of InterGen’s Mexico portfolio valued at $1.265bn (2017), the Tierra Mojada 875MW power plant financing (2017), the Petacalco Coal Handling Facility (2016-2017), the Jinko solar portfolio financing (2016-2018), the financing and related sale-of-stake for the 800 MW Norte III Power Plant (2016-2018), and the Norte II, Campeche, Chihuahua and El Cajon power plants, among others.