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Infrastructure

Practice

Our infrastructure practice area is focused on working alongside our local and international clients in all stages of investment projects in infrastructure and industrial facilities, including risk management, negotiation and administration of relevant contracts, handling of claims and resolution of construction disputes through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration.

Our team has the expertise to engage from a legal and negotiation perspective in infrastructure projects in the energy and natural resources sector for:

  • the collection of primary energies (solar, hydraulic, wind, geothermal, biomass, oil, natural gas) and the production of secondary energies (fuels, electricity, and other byproducts). 
  • exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon and mining resources, the on-site treatment process, transportation and storage, transformation, distribution, and commercialization (import/export). 
  • the mining-energy business value chain (industrial processing plants/by-products, petrochemicals, lithium battery value chain).
  • projects within the framework of the United Nations Global Agenda for Sustainable Development, climate change mitigation projects and carbon credit management programs.

The area of practice also includes construction projects of all types of industrial facilities under private management and Project Finance schemes in other economic activities such as TMT, tourism, ports, road and rail networks and aqueducts and areas of sanitation, health, education, urban sanitation, defense.

Services

Drafting of relevant agreements:

  • Investment agreements between developers and stakeholders.
  • Input contracts.
  • Construction contract of facilities for their execution on time, quality, and budget. Private initiative EPC contracts and others under BOT, DBO, PPP modality. Application of internationally used contract models (FIDIC).
  • Service contracts: Project Management (EPCM), engineering services.
  • Long lead delivery equipment supply contracts (LLI).
  • Operation and maintenance contracts.
  • Supply contracts with off-takers.
  • Financing contracts (bank and stock exchange) for construction and/or operation phases.
  • Management of all related administrative, regulatory, fiscal and environmental obligations.
Resolution of project-related disputes:

  • Claim management. Preparation and negotiation of contractual claims.
  • Change management from a legal and negotiation perspective.
  • Assistance in direct negotiations, mediation, Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB), national and international arbitration.
Management of environmental risks from a legal perspective.

  • Addressing applicable technical, environmental (use of water, hazardous materials) and social regulations. Permit and license processing.
  • Access to public information and citizen participation.
  • Land management: permits, easements, expropriations.
  • Social impacts of projects. Local legislation and World Bank rules
Integrated advice with other practice areas on the legal framework for mining and energy exploitation with impact on projects:

  • Regulatory framework for the exploration and exploitation of natural resources at federal, provincial, and municipal levels. Special emphasis on the regimes for hydrocarbons from unconventional deposits and mining regime.
  • Projects under Law 27.328 Public-Private Participation Contracts.
  • Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI).
Consulting for new businesses in energy and environment:

  • Small-scale energy generation (mini hydro - wind - photovoltaic - biomass generation solutions).
  • Green hydrogen projects (with wind energy support).
  • Carbon credits management. Reforestation projects. Rural electrification.