Gianluca Bacchiocchi is a Partner in Gibson Dunn’s New York office and Co-Chair of the Structured Finance Practice Group, with a focus in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Gianluca has significant experience financing energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally on behalf of developers, financial sponsors, issuers, banks, initial purchasers and placement agents in the capital markets, the bank lending market, private capital financings, and hybrid transactions. He has financed everything from data centers to renewable and traditional power, metro lines, roads, hospitals, ports, airports, bridges, water transportation, water desalination, parking and FPSOs. Gianluca has been recognized as a Leading Partner by Legal 500 USA 2025, and has been involved in some of the most innovative, award-winning financings and advises clients on structured and hybrid capital financing transactions.
Representative Experience*
- PIMCO in a US$27.3 billion 144A/Reg S securities offering by funds managed by Blue Owl Capital, funding a joint venture with Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) for the development and operation of the 2,700-acre Hyperion Data Center in Richland Parish, Louisiana.
- Citibank and J.P. Morgan, as global coordinators, and 9 joint bookrunners and co-managers on Yinson Bergenia Production B.V.'s (Yinson Production) 144A/Reg S offering of approximately US$1.17 billion in 8.498% Senior Secured Notes due 2045, and counsel to issuing lenders under a letter of credit facility.
- Apollo and Apollo-managed affiliates, funds and other long-term investors in the US$600 million acquisition of a 50% interest in Vale Oman Distribution Center from Vale S.A.
- Mizuho and Banistmo on the inaugural securitization and 144A/Reg S US$1.4 billion zero coupon second tranche of the milestone-based receivables financing for the construction of the fourth bridge over the Panama Canal (Infrastructure Financing of the Year: Central America by LatinFinance)
- Citibank and Santander along with 8 joint bookrunners and co-managers on the US$1.035 billion senior secured notes issuance by Yinson Boronia Production B.V. to refinance the FPSO Anna Nery, as well as Citibank, Bladex, and ING as lenders, with respect to a letter of credit facility to fund the reserve accounts where the issuer was also the borrower under the credit facility (Oil & Gas Financing of the Year by LatinFinance)
- Carlyle and other creditors in connection with the purchase of senior secured notes due 2030 to finance parking facilities of Green Courte Partners
- Carlyle and other creditors in connection with the purchase of US$750 million senior secured notes due 2029 to finance 28 parking facilities of Green Courte Partners portfolio company, The Parking Spot
- Samsung Asset Management and HSBC Asset Management, as investors for their managed accounts, in US$135 million dual delayed-draw private placements structured by Credit Agricole Securities for the Reden Group’s 180 MW PMGD portfolios
- Paracel S.A., an afforestation and pulp mill project in Paraguay, in a strategic equity investment agreement with Austrian pulp and paper company, Heinzel Holding GmbH, in which Heinzel will hold 25% of Paracel's shares at project completion
- BNP Paribas and other lenders, in the acquisition financing of the largest LNG regasification terminal in Chile, in which Fluxys and EIG acquired an aggregate 80% equity stake in GNL Quintero S.A. from Enagás Chile SpA and affiliates of OMERS Infrastructure (Latin America LNG Deal of the Year 2022, Proximo)
- Coatue Management in a preferred equity investment in Scala Data Centers
- Blackrock in the holdco financing of 99MW CCTG and 850MW CCTG plants in Mexico, developed by Energia del Valle de Mexico
Gianluca received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
Publications
Latin America’s Digital Infrastructure Revolution: Financing the Next Wave of Connectivity, The Real Estate Finance Journal, Winter 2026.
* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- New York University - 1998 Juris Doctor
- University of Michigan - 1994 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar