Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernández advises major domestic banks, including Banco BHD, Banco Santa Cruz, and Scotiabank, and acts as local counsel to a wide range of international financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, IDB Invest, FMO, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America. The team handles acquisition finance, project and structured finance, and trade finance matters, and is active in the Dominican Republic’s growing capital markets space. Recent work includes advising on a green bond issuance and representing AERODOM on a $500m bond issuance and $440m credit facility. Jaime Senior handles some of the regions’ most complex transactions and is experienced across a range of sectors. Roberto Rizik leads the team alongside Senior and Sarah De León. Fernando Marranzini is notably active in financing work, while Carolina Silié excels in the power sector, and Eileen Jiménez handles project financings.
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Key clients
- Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Invest)
- Nexgen Capital LTD – Generadora San Felipe Limited Partnership
- Norfund
- Banco BHD
- Wells Fargo Bank
- Mastercard
- Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
- CIFI Services
- Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI(AERODOM)
- Advanced Asset Management
Work highlights
Advised Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (AERODOM), the concessionaire of six airports in the Dominican Republic, as debtor.
Advised CIFI Services, along with a consortium of lenders, in relation to a credit facility extended to SIBA Energy Corporation of up to $322.5m for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a grid connected 270MWp combined cycle power plant and associated infrastructure.
Advising Diesco Industries and subsidiaries on a refinancing transaction that entailed securing a $165m senior secured credit facility from Comvest Credit Partners.
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Practice head
Jaime Senior; Roberto Rizik; Sarah De León
Other key lawyers
Fernando Marranzini; Carolina Silié; Eileen Jiménez