About

Number of years practice: 21

Principal practice areas: Acquisition finance, bank finance, project finance

Bar admissions: Florida, New York

Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish Carlos Viana is the head of White & Case’s Latin America Interest Group, and is at the forefront of the firm’s cross-border practices in the Andean and Southern Cone countries. He also has extensive experience working in Mexico, Brazil and across Central America. An award-winning projects and banking lawyer, Viana has helped project sponsors and developers, including equity investors and owners, to finance and develop major infrastructure, natural-resource, industrial and energy projects and portfolios. A particular standout in his career involved acting on the largest private investment in a single project in the history of Mexico, the Braskem-Idesa consortium’s $4.5bn Etileno XXI integrated petrochemicals project in Veracruz. The project won multiple awards, several of which recognised Viana individually for his role in its development, procurement, construction and project financing.

Viana continues to lead on the ongoing financing of various thermal and renewable energy projects in Mexico, and guides many of the world’s leading financial institutions in all matters relating to project finance, corporate and acquisition finance and structured trade and export finance in Mexico. White & Case represented the joint bookrunners on the $640m refinancing of Techgen’s natural gas-fired, combined-cycle 900 MW electric power plant project located in the Pesquería area of the State of Nuevo León. He has represented the lead lenders or the creditor parties, in syndicated and other secured and unsecured credit facilities and capital markets offerings involving Latin American projects or corporates, with an aggregate value of more than $65bn.

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