Pinheiro Guimarães

Project Development and Finance; Banking and the Financial Markets; Structured Finance and Securitization

Partner

Paloma has over 20 years of experience in the development and financing of infrastructure projects in a variety of industries, including energy, oil and gas, ports, transportation, public lighting and water and waste management. Paloma was previously a partner in other firms in Brazil and served as senior in-house counsel at the Inter-American Development Bank for 4 years in Washington – DC. She has a law degree from the Universidade de São Paulo and an LLM in Corporate Law and Governance from Stanford Law School.

Recently, Paloma acted as the lead lawyer assisting Goldman Sachs and the US International Development Finance Corporation in the BRL925 million non-recourse financing of Smart Luz to fund its Rio de Janeiro Smart City & Public Lighting Project, as well as Goldman Sachs, Swiss Export Risk Insurance (SERV), IFC and IDB Invest in the USD3.1 billion financing of a combined cycle thermal power plant with an installed capacity of 1.5GW in the state of Sergipe, with a combined project finance and capital markets structure through the issuance of debentures. Paloma is praised by local and international clients and is widely regarded as one of the most seasoned and knowledgeable project finance lawyers in Brazil.

Brazilian Bar Association.

University of São Paulo Law School, São Paulo (LLB, 2001); Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, São Paulo (Postgraduate Studies in Administrative Law, Contracts and Practice, 2004); Stanford University Law School, California (LLM in Corporate Governance and Practice, 2008).