Jorge Kamine, a counsel in the Energy and Infrastructure Projects Group in Skadden’s Washington, D.C. office, focuses his practice on all aspects of structuring, developing and financing international energy and infrastructure projects, as well as the acquisition and divestiture of energy and infrastructure assets.  He has broad experience in the energy industry, including experience with oil and gas exploration, development and transportation, LNG and power generation.

His non-energy infrastructure experience includes projects involving water supply and sanitation, road and transport, and urban infrastructure.  He has advised clients with structuring and negotiating transactions involving multiple owners, project development and various types of project and bank financings representing lenders and borrowers.

Mr. Kamine has worked on matters in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.  His experience in Latin America and the Caribbean has included matters in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Venezuela.

Some of Mr. Kamine’s transactional experience includes the representation of:

• Peru LNG S.R.L. and its sponsors in the project financing of its $3.8 billion liquefied natural gas export project in Peru with financing provided by the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, U.S.-Eximbank, and other export credit agencies and commercial banks, which was Latin America’s first LNG export project, the largest foreign direct investment in Peru’s history and which has been named “Latin America Deal of the Year” for 2008 by Project Finance International and the “Best Energy Deal of the Year” for 2008 by LatinFinance;
  
  
• a U.S.-based international energy company in its joint development of a greenfields power plant in Central America with a European-based international energy company;
  
  
• an international energy company in connection with its proposed development of an LNG receiving terminal and related infrastructure in Mexico;
  
  
• the Inter-American Development Bank, a European official lending agency and commercial bank participants in financing a portfolio of Brazilian power generation assets;
  
  
• a major NYSE-listed international industrial gases and chemicals company in negotiating project financing for an oxygen generating facility to be located in Trinidad, including negotiating the credit agreement and all ancillary documents;
  
  
• two major U.S.-based international energy companies in connection with their acquisition, financing and ongoing ownership of offshore oil and gas concessions from Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras);
  
  
• a major NYSE-listed international energy company in its $600 million divestment of a crude oil refinery and related assets located in the Caribbean; and
  
  
• a major NYSE-listed global bank in its role as lead arranger and administrative agent for the syndicated, secured and unsecured credit facilities of various publicly traded independent oil and natural gas companies.

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Kamine served as counsel at The World Bank where he represented the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association in structuring, developing and financing Latin American and Caribbean projects, involving sovereign and subsovereign governments, and international and regional organizations and institutions.  During his tenure at the bank, Mr. Kamine worked closely with bank teams advising borrower and recipient governments on projects involving water supply and sanitation infrastructure, road and transport infrastructure, urban infrastructure, land administration, and macroeconomic and sectoral policy reforms.

Mr. Kamine is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and regularly negotiates in those languages.

Presentations

• Moderator and co-chair of a program entitled “Bridging the Chasm: Forging a New Architecture for Energy and Infrastructure Investments in the Developing World” at the 2009 Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law (Washington, D.C., April 14-17, 2009)
  
  
• Panelist, Institute of the Americas’ Conference on Central America Energy: Renewables, Integration and Investment (San Salvador, El Salvador, Dec. 12, 2008)
  
  
• Presented a paper on U.S.-Latin American relations at the 2008 Biennial American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group Conference (Washington, D.C., Nov. 14-16, 2008)
  
  
• Panelist, 10th Annual Hispanic Law Conference at Washington College of Law (American University) (Washington, D.C., March 7, 2007)
  
  
• Panelist, 10th Annual Conference of the Texas-Mexico Bar Association (Austin, Texas, Oct. 17, 2003)