Mr Gregory Tan > Paul Hastings LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Paul Hastings LLP has assembled an impressive team over the past few years. Its dedicated Latin America group has extensive contacts and a fine record in the region. More recently, it has been able to leverage the expertise of colleagues in the US, particularly in energy transition and digital infrastructure, and apply this in Latin America projects. The team has worked on a series of battery storage and distributed generation projects, along with transmission projects, green hydrogen pilots, large-scale renewables projects and desalination infrastructure developments. It has also advised on LNG import terminals, gas-fired power plants and airports. The group typically advises an even split between lenders and sponsors. Gregory Tan is co-chair of the infrastructure and energy team, and maintains a strong focus on Latin America, including a number of recent projects in the Dominican Republic and Chile. Alexandro Padrés is another prominent name in Mexico and Latin America project financings, especially renewable energy, mining, digital infrastructure and desalination projects. Thomas Sines has emerged as an important member of the team, now leading many of its key matters. Associate Bruna Rey is also active in multiple Latin America projects. All named individuals are based in New York.

With expertise in development and financing, energy transition, and power and renewables transactions, the energy and infrastructure practice at Paul Hastings LLP is a good choice for businesses from the energy and financial services sectors. The department also has strengths in partnerships, tax equity, and debt capital markets which, together with its cross-border capabilities, have amassed a strong client roster which is made up of notable banks, green energy companies, and asset management groups. Heading up the team in New York are project finance and development experts Robert Freedman and Gregory Tan. Both Freedman and Tan have extensive experience advising sponsors, lenders, and financial institutions on limited recourse and structured financings, restructuring, and acquisitions and dispositions. In Houston, Luis Gomar is the main contact in the group and concentrates on M&A, asset acquisitions and divestitures, and joint ventures, alongside equity products, fund formations, and investments.

Paul Hastings LLP‘s energy and infrastructure practice has its strengths in financing alternative energy projects and PPPs across the country. The New York-based duo of Gregory Tan and Robert Freedman oversee the practice group. Tan is a renowned figure in the US infrastructure market and has an outstanding track record acting for sponsors, lenders, major financial institutions, funds and corporations, regional development banks, and multilateral institutions. Freedman has more of a focus on the energy side wherein he has expertise spanning finance and development, asset acquisitions and dispositions, and restructuring. David Avila is a further contact to note in New York, supporting across the range of energy project financing.