Christian Rudloff
christian.rudloff@shearman.com
+1 212 848 4301 +1 212 848 4301 New York
Christian Rudloff is counsel in the Project Development & Finance practice.
He advises global corporations and financial institutions as sponsors, suppliers, contractors, borrowers and lenders in project development, finance and asset acquisition and disposition transactions across the energy, oil & gas, infrastructure and mining & metals sectors, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions in Latin America. Christian's primary focus is on the contracts related to the business of each individual project.
OMERS Infrastructure Management on its acquisition of the wind developer, Leeward Renewable Energy, from affiliates of ArcLight Capital Partners
The borrowers and sponsors on the $235 (approximate) million financing for the development, construction and operation of two solar photovoltaic projects in Mexico – Solem I, a 150 MWac solar photovoltaic project developed by Cubico Alten Aguascalientes Uno, and Solem II, a 140MWac solar photovoltaic project being developed by Cubico Alten Aguascalientes Dos, both of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of Cubico Sustainable Investments Limited (75%) and Alten RE Developments America (25%), an affiliate of Sojitz ("Latin America Solar Deal of the Year" (2017) by IJGlobal)
Goldcorp on the development of the $2.2 billion El Morro gold/copper mine in Chile
GE Capital Global Holdings on its acquisition of a 24.99% stake in YPF Energía Eléctrica from YPF
DNB Bank, SMBC, Natixis, and Bank of China, as lenders, on a $171 million senior secured credit facility for Hidroléctrica La Higuera, the owner of a 161 MW run-of-river hydropower plant and related transmission assets located in the Tinguiririca River basin in Chile, 180 kilometers south of the city of Santiago
Represented one of the consortium which bid on the desalination project being developed by Codelco in Chile
Los Guindos Generación SpA on the financing of an expansion to increase by 133 MW the existing Los Guindos diesel-fired power station located in Chile
A state authority in the Middle East and North Africa region on the development and financing of a first-in-kind and first-in-country $25 billion nuclear new build project and negotiating the EPC, Fuel Supply, O&M and Radioactive Waste Treatment contracts
Lenders on multiple aspects of the proposed $7.33 billion Gasoducto Sur Perúano project, a more than 1,000 km gas pipeline in Peru. This was one of the largest infrastructure projects to come to market in the history of Peru's energy sector
Grupo Carso and its affiliates, as sponsor, on an 18-year nonrecourse $535 million project financing for the development of an approximately 630 km natural gas pipeline running from Samalayuca, Chihuahua, to Sásabe, Sonora, in Mexico
ING Capital on the $325 million financing of three natural gas-fired simple-cycle power plants, totaling up to approximately 1,381 MW of combined generating power in Illinois, owned by RA Generation, a subsidiary of LS Power
GDF Suez and Marubeni on the proposed development and financing for the GNL del Plata project, consisting of a floating LNG regasification facility off the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay, together with associated land-based facilities
GE Energy Financial Services on the sale of an equity interest in the Mayakán Pipeline in Mexico to affiliates of EXI
LL.M. in Business Law
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Certificate in Business Administration
Universidad Diego Portales, Escuela de Derecho
Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (J.D. equivalent)
Update on Colombia Bid for Pacific LNG Import Terminal