About

Number of years practice: 27

Principal practice areas: Banking, finance and securities, projects and infrastructure, energy

Bar admissions: Florida, New York

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Richard Puttré has more than 25 years of experience in complex, cross-border project-finance transactions, representing sponsors, developers, lenders, and investors in the development, financing, acquisition, and disposition of major capital-intensive assets in both the US and across Latin America. Now based in Miami, Puttré operated out of Jones Day’s Madrid office for over a decade and he has a strong reputation with Spanish developers.

Head of the firm’s global projects and infrastructure practice and leader of its Latin America practice group, he has particular experience representing sponsors and developers in renewable energy projects, including extensive experience helping to develop photo-voltaic plants. These transactions frequently involve banks and development finance institutions from various countries around the world. Puttré has worked on a number of wind, thermal solar, and conventional power projects as well as toll roads, airports, transmission lines, waste treatment facilities and water projects. His recent Mexico-related mandates include co-leading advice to Jinko Solar on the development, construction, operation, and financing of Jinko’s 25.02 MWp photovoltaic solar power plant and associated electrical substation and interconnection line located in the State of Yucatan in the municipality of San Ignacio, Progreso. The first phase of this project closed March 2018 and saw the team obtain a $135m senior financing for a 130MW project in Las Viborillas, Jalisco, while simultaneously handling all the developmental, regulatory and corporate aspects of the project.

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