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James Vickers
Mr. Vickers is a member of Davis Polk’s Corporate Department and Latin American finance practice, advising clients on a range of corporate finance transactions, including project finance, structured finance, margin loans, equity and credit linked products and leveraged lending, with a focus on financings in the international cross-border markets, particularly in Latin America. Mr. Vickers has been based in Sao Paulo, Brazil since 2003 and has advised an array of notable financial institutions and companies. |
Work Highlights
Notable representations include advising:
- The project sponsors on the $1 billion long-term limited recourse project financing of an extended well test floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) (“Libra”) chartered to Petrobras on behalf of, and as leader of, a consortium comprising Petrobras, Shell, Total, China National Petroleum Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (work included a bankability study in connection with the project, including the construction contract entered into with the EPC Contractor, Jurong Shipyard PTE Ltd., in Singapore)
- The joint lead arrangers in connection with LATAM Airlines’ acquisition of the remaining publicly traded shares in Multiplus pursuant to a tender offer under Brazilian law
- A construction company on the joint venture arrangements for the design, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of two “clean coal” fired thermoelectric power plants in Punta Catalina, Dominican Republic
- The project company and sponsors on a bank/bond project financing comprising of approximately $550 million in senior secured bonds and an approximately $250 million senior secured loan for a public-private partnership (PPP) toll road project in Lima, Peru
- A construction consortium over a period of two years in connection with the Alliance EPC construction and joint venture arrangements relating to the $4.5 billion “Etileno XXI” integrated petrochemical facility located in the State of Veracruz, Mexico – the largest single project private sector investment and petrochemical industry project financing undertaken in Mexico
- The project company and lead sponsor with respect to in respect of the supply, manufacture and $1 billion project financing of the Sao Paulo Metro Line 4
- The principal sponsor and concessionaire in connection with all aspects of a $1 billion long-term limited recourse project financing by Inter-American Development Bank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation of the Mário Covas Ringroad (Rodoanel Mário Covas) in São Paulo, Brazil
- The concessionaire in connection with the first pure PPP project bond financing transaction in Peru - the 960 km IIRSA-Norte toll road, part of the wider infrastructure development strategy signed in 2000 to promote political and economic integration across twelve South American countries
- Petrobras on:
- all aspects of the US$900m REVAP refinery modernization project in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
- all aspects of the commercial contracts and project financing of the $1 billion Malhas Gas Pipeline Project to extend the gas supply to thermal plants and industrial facilities in the south-east and north-east regions of Brazil
- the structuring of a JBIC sponsor financing on the Gasene natural gas pipeline to link the northeastern and southeastern Malhas networks
- the $1.3 billion EVM Project to finance the exploration of the Espadarte, Voador and Marimbá fields in the Campos Basin
- the project financing of the $850 million Cabiúnas Project created to finance the development of gas treatment in the Campos Basin, Brazil
- CCR S.A. and its subsidiaries over a period of fifteen years on multiple term loan facilities in an aggregate amount exceeding $2 billion
Recognition
Mr. Vickers is consistently recognized for his work in the legal industry:
- Chambers Global – Projects (LatAm-wide)
- Chambers Latin America – Projects (LatAm-wide)
- IFLR1000 – M&A (Brazil)
- Legal 500 Latin America – Projects and Energy (International Firms)
Professional History
- Partner, 2008-2011
- Associate, 2007-2008, Mayer Brown
- Associate, Clifford Chance, 1999-2007