About

Number of years practice: 21

Principal practice areas: Energy finance, infrastructure finance, project finance

Bar admissions: New York

Languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Carolina Walther-Meade lived and went to school in both the US and Mexico during her childhood. She decided at an early age to pursue a career that would allow her to stay connected to – and have an impact on – both Latin America and, in particular, Mexico. Today Walther-Meade heads Milbank’s International Attorney Program, one of the cornerstones of its Latin America practice. She is consistently recognised as one of the leading lawyers globally in both the project finance and banking and finance areas and has accumulated considerable experience in the Mexican market. Recently, she advised the lenders on range of mining projects in Chile, the Dominican Republic and Mexico and the sponsors in a variety of toll road and other transportation infrastructure projects in Peru, Panama and Mexico.

Specifically, Milbank has underlined its leading projects credentials in Mexico by advising more than a dozen institutional investors and a syndicate of commercial bank lenders on a hybrid $740m financing consisting of a private placement, term loan and credit facility for EVM II, a 850MW greenfield combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant in the Axapusco municipality.

Walther-Meade serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), whose vision is to create a dialogue for the purpose of educating women lawyers on how to become leaders in their workplace and community. She participates in Milbank’s mentoring program, where she counsels associates on quality-of-life and work issues, and she also serves on the firm’s Women’s Initiative Committee and co-heads its recruiting subcommittee.