About

Number of years practice: 25

Principal practice areas: Projects
and energy, project finance

Bar admissions: New York

Languages spoken: English

Daniel D. Bartfeld is a partner in the New York office of Milbank and is the global practice group leader of the firm’s global project, energy and infrastructure finance group (which has over 120 project finance-dedicated lawyers) and is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee, as well as co-head of the Latin America Group.

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.

The Milbank team, led by Bartfeld, recently advised 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, Mexico. It also advised the ECAs and commercial lenders on the $900m financing for the development, construction and operation of the Mina Justa copper-silver-gold mine in the Ica region of Peru.

Bartfeld has acted on almost all of the recent gas pipeline projects in Mexico (and from the US to Mexico), including the 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.