About

Number of years practice: 26

Principal practice areas: Cross-border transactions

Bar admissions: California

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

A Mexican native with decades of experience in oil, gas and power transactions, Dino Barajas is particularly recommended for his work in project development and finance, debt finance and M&A. Clients call him ‘an expert on energy transactions’ and praise him for his ‘business acumen’, ‘industry knowledge’ and ‘Latin America expertise’. He acts for a range of clients including banks, institutional investors, sponsors and developers on energy and infrastructure projects throughout Latin America, and has also handled projects in the US, Guam, Trinidad & Tobago and Yemen.

Barajas’ practice focuses on domestic and international project development and finance, with particular emphasis on Latin American infrastructure projects, debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents lenders, investors and developers in a wide range of domestic and international project financings in the energy, power, infrastructure and commercial sectors, as well as in traditional banking, structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, asset finance, joint ventures and venture capital transactions.

Notable cases for Barajas over the past year include representing Canadian Solar, one of the world’s largest solar power companies, in the development and financing of a 60 MW solar project in Aguascalientes, Mexico (closed July 2018); advising Mitsubishi Corporation with ongoing corporate matters relating to a 495MW natural gas-fired power project (Tuxpan V) located in Mexico; representing Och-Ziff Capital and DKRW in the development of an LNG storage and regasification terminal in Sonora, Mexico; and advising Canadian Solar on the sale of one of the largest solar projects being developed in Mexico.