About

Number of years practice: 30

Principal practice areas: Banking and finance, capital markets; corporate and securities, M&A and private equity

Bar admissions: District of Columbia, New York

Languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Christopher Erckert is practice head of Mayer Brown’s global finance and banking practice and spearheads the firm’s prestigious Latin America projects practice. He has built an outstanding reputation for representing borrowers and lenders in high-profile project financings with a particular emphasis on energy and infrastructure-related work.

Regarded as a leading figure for both development and financing mandates, his track record includes commercial bank, project bond (144A, private placement and Reg S) and development finance (multilateral, bi-lateral and export credit agency) transactions. He has considerable recent experience in renewable energy projects, and is currently representing the sponsor and borrowers in five separate financeings for five solar power projects in Mexico. Erckert’s previous high-profile matters include representing Acciona Energia and the issuers in the $148.5m and $150.2m 144A/Reg S project bond financing of the Oaxaca II and Oaxaca IV wind power projects.

Other recent work includes acting as lead counsel to the North American Development Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, as lenders, in the financing of the Los Santos Solar Park project – the second largest solar facility in Mexico and a key post-reform energy sector transaction. Erckert is also noted for his particular experience in project bonds: he was instrumental in helping to secure around $300m of project bonds for the first phase of the Energía Sierra Juárez cross-border wind project, which began commercial operation in 2015. This and other novel transactions demonstrate his profound understanding of the Mexican energy sector and ability to originate novel legal solutions.

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