Daniela Tapia Devia

Associate Attorney

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T: +1 213.229.7492
Los Angeles

Daniela Tapia is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Projects and Infrastructure, Latin America, Finance, and Power and Renewables Practice Groups.

Her practice focuses on corporate and financing matters, project financing, private debt and equity offerings and acquisitions. She has advised both multi-national and local companies on domestic and cross border transactions between Latin America and the US, and has participated in, among others, commercial bank loans, syndicated loans, SEC registered and Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and infrastructure project transactions.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Daniela was an associate at Cariola Diez Perez-Cotapos, in Chile.

Daniela received her Law Degree, magna cum laude, in 2015 from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Law School and received a Master of Laws from NYU in 2020.

Daniela is admitted to practice in the State of California and in the Republic of Chile.

Representative Transactions:

Ports

Representation of Maher Terminals, a multi-user marine container terminals operator and portfolio company of Macquarie Asset Management, on the US$200M increase to its capital expenditure facility under an existing senior secured loan agreement.
Representation of Maher Terminals, operator of a 454-acre multi-user container terminal in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, in respect of its $513 million senior secured credit facilities.
Representation of MIP V Bidco, a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, in the acquisition of Husky Terminal & Stevedoring and International Transportation Services.
Representation of Ceres Terminal Holdings LLC, a provider of marine transportation services, on a $170 million Senior Secured Credit Facility.
Representation of Galveston Cruise terminal LLC, operator of the Port of Galveston, Texas, in the Note Purchase Agreement for Notes Series A and Series B, each in the aggregate principal amount of $54.2 million.

Roads

Representation of Cintra Infraestructuras and Tikehau Capital North America, LLC, in connection with the bid for the development, design, construction, financing, operation, maintenance, and tolling of three new tolled, access controlled express lanes in Georgia.
Representation of LBJ Infrastructure Group, a transportation infrastructure developer, in connection with its $609 million 2021 senior secured notes, $836 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan and $544 million private activity (PABs) for a Texas toll road.

Latin America

Representation of Grupo Financiero Galicia, the largest private financial group in Argentina, on its acquisition of HSBC's Argentina banking operations.
Representation of GraMex Investment Holdings LLC, an investment vehicle managed by Gramercy Funds Management LLC, as lender in respect of a $39.2 million senior secured credit facility to MNJ Capital, S.A. de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R.
Representation of GraMex Investment Holdings LLC, a credit investment vehicle managed by Gramercy Funds Management LLC, as borrower under $75m senior secured revolving credit facility, pursuant to a credit agreement with Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC, as lender, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as administrative agent and collateral agent. Proceeds of credit facility from Nomura will be used to fund various project specific credit facilities from GraMex, the loans under which are used to finance oil and gas drilling projects undertaken by certain Mexican companies under contracts with Pemex.
Representation of GraMex Investment Holdings, an investment vehicle managed by Gramercy Funds Management and lender to Mexican oil and gas pipeline projects, on the amendment and extension of its US$75M senior secured revolving credit facility.
Representation of medical care provider Oncoclínicas do Brasil Serviços Médicos as issuer, and the controlling selling shareholder affiliates of Goldman Sachs, on a R$896.87M follow-on equity offering of 87.5 million shares.
Representation of affiliate of Gramercy Funds Management LLC, as lender, in a credit facility with MNJ Capital, S.A. de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R, as borrower for development and construction agreements secured by assets in Mexico.
Representation of GraMex Investment Holdings, an investment vehicle managed by Gramercy Funds Management, as lender on a US$114M amendment and extension of a credit facility to MNJ Capital, S.A. de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R., a financial institution to the Mexican infrastructure and oil sectors.
Representation of Meridiam Infrastructure in connection with the refinancing of a hospital development project in Chile.
Representation of affiliate of Gramercy Funds Management LLC, as lender, in a credit facility with MNJ Capital, S.A. de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R, as borrower for development and construction agreements secured by assets in Mexico.
Representation of GraMex Investment Holdings LLC, an investment vehicle managed by Gramercy Funds Management, as lender in respect of establishment of a $44.59 million credit facility to MNJ Capital, S.A. de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R.
Representation of GraMex Investment Holdings, an investment vehicle managed by Gramercy Funds Management and lender to Mexican oil and gas pipeline projects, on three credit facilities totaling US$348.6M to Permaducto S.A. de C.V., a contractor.
Representation of Oncoclínicas, a Brazilian medical-care provider, in its initial public equity offering, raising 2.7 billion reais (US$518 million).
Representation of lender in respect of $350 million senior secured credit facility to finance various oil and gas projects for Grupo Protexa (as contractor for Pemex) in Mexico.
Representation of lender in respect of $350 million senior secured credit facility to finance various oil and gas projects for Grupo Protexa (as contractor for Pemex) in Mexico.
Representation of lender in respect of $110 million senior secured credit facility MNJ Capital to finance a portfolio of local projects in the oil and gas industry in Mexico.

Energy and Power

Representation of a joint venture between Brookfield Renewable (and its institutional partners) and Stonepeak, in connection with the $1 billion investment in InterEnergy Group Ltd. for the expansion of clean energy businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean (including the Dominican Republic, Panama, Jamaica, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay).
Representation of investment banks BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup Global Markets, J.P. Morgan Securities, and Scotia Capital (USA) as global coordinators and joint bookrunners, and Credit Agricole Securities (USA), MUFG Securities Americas, and SMBC Nikko Securities America as joint bookrunners on a US$1.5B registered notes offering by Brazil-based metal and mining company Vale S.A. and its subsidiary Vale Overseas Limited.
Representation of Inkia Energy, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, in the sale of the Agua Clara wind farm in the Dominican Republic to AES.

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