Jorge Kamine is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, Co-Chair of the Project Finance practice group and a member of the Latin America practice group. Jorge focuses his practice on a wide range of transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector globally with a particular emphasis on the debt and equity financing of projects and the structuring, acquisition and divestment of investments in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects and assets. He has broad experience across the energy industry, with particular experience with renewable and conventional power projects, LNG facilities, pipelines, and upstream oil and gas development, as well as experience with public-private partnerships and investments in transportation and other non-energy infrastructure.
Jorge has extensive finance experience advising sponsors and lenders in the project financing of individual and portfolios of projects, including financings of commercial banks, institutional investors, and multilateral development banks and export credit agencies. He also has substantial experience advising sponsors and lenders in mezzanine, back-leverage financings, construction development financing, acquisition financing, and other types of debt and equity financing structures often involving first-of-its-kind and innovative structures. Jorge’s sponsor clients have included international power producers, public utilities, corporate and other strategic investors, private equity funds, infrastructure funds and other investment funds, and his lender clients have included a wide range of international commercial banks, development finance institutions and institutional investors.
Jorge has had extensive M&A experience representing both buyers and sellers in a wide range of equity and asset sale transactions, including auction and private sale settings and acquisitions and divestitures involving distressed and bankrupt companies. He has also had significant experience structuring and negotiating a variety of joint venture, shareholder and investment agreements and other corporate transactions related to the development and operation of energy and infrastructure projects.
Jorge also has substantial project development experience, particularly as it relates to advising clients participating in government-sponsored tenders for energy and infrastructure concessions and offtake contracts, structuring cross-border investments, negotiating EPC and material supply contracts, and obtaining political risk insurance.
His geographic experience includes work on matters in over 25 countries throughout the world with significant experience handling matters and transactions across the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.
He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and regularly negotiates in those languages.
Jorge has been selected for inclusion in
Chambers USA-Nationwide Projects Legal Rankings where he has been recognized by clients as “an innovative and creative attorney who is great at client management” and “a very detailed and a very good technical lawyer.” Jorge was also named to
Latinvex’s “Top 100 Lawyers” for Latin America for excellence in the area of Energy and Project Finance, most recently in 2022. Jorge has also been recognized by
Latin Lawyer 250 and
The Legal 500: Latin America for his project finance, energy and infrastructure sector work in the region.
He is a frequent speaker and panelist at various industry and academic conferences and seminars on topics related to international project finance and energy and infrastructure projects and policies in Latin America and the United States. He is also a frequent commentator for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor and Latin America Energy Advisor as well as for Latinvex, LatinFinance and Latin Lawyer magazines.