Stephen Hood & Partners
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Sao Paulo-based Stephen Hood & Partners is a finance boutique with a primary focus on Brazil and broader Latin America project finance. It provides both New York and English law expertise from its two partners. The firm has close links to Brazilian banks and the Brazil operations of international banks. It has also built its connections to private credit lenders and is well-known amongst Brazilian and Latin American corporates in the energy, infrastructure and other sectors. The firm’s partners have an extensive background in oil and gas, energy and infrastructure projects. Stephen Hood is one of the most experienced project finance specialists operating in the Latin America market, having spent more than 20 years in Sao Paulo, and previously working as a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Clifford Chance. New York-qualified Rebecca Roman is another project finance specialist who has spent much of her career in Sao Paulo.
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Testimonials
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‘Experience combined with grit.’
‘Stephen Hood has all the experience possible, given his 30+ years of project finance work all over the planet. Rebecca Roman is the new blood, with grit, and she overdelivers.’
Key clients
- Sete Brasil (in judicial recovery) and its subsidiaries
- VINCI Concessions
Work highlights
Acted as counsel for Casa dos Ventos in the negotiation and drafting of the Financial Support Framework Agreement with TotalEnergies, in connection with a joint venture arrangement between Casa dos Ventos and TotalEnergies.