Jose L. Valera

Thermal and renewable generation project development, financing, mergers and acquisitions.

• Representation of a Mexican corporation as international counsel in its joint venture with a U.S. renewable energy company for their participation as a bidder in the first power purchase auction that was conducted by the Centro Nacional de Control de Energía (CENACE) in Mexico.
• Representation of a global energy finance company in a proposed 49-percent equity investment in a project company for the construction and ownership of a wind power farm in Mexico.
• Representation of a large European company as the proposed O&M operator in the tender process conducted by CFE for the construction, financing and operation of a major electric transmission project in Mexico.
• Representation of an electric generation company in the Dominican Republic in the negotiation and drafting of EPC and O&M agreements for a dual gas and diesel- fired power plant.

LNG liquefaction services, regasification services, development of regasification terminals, and purchase and sale of LNG.

• Representation of a Chilean electric generation company, as buyer, in the negotiation and drafting of an LNG purchase and sale agreement to procure fuel. 
• Representation of Andes LNG in the negotiation and drafting of agreements for the development of an integrated LNG regasification and power generation project in Chile.
• Representation of Calamari LNG S.A. E.S.P., a company owned by Colombian electric generation companies Termocandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P, Termobarranquilla S.A. E.S.P. and Zona Franca Celsia S.A. E.S.P., in the negotiation and drafting of agreements for the purchase of LNG to be delivered at the Cartagena terminal.
• Representation of an equity participant in the development of an LNG-to-Power project in Brazil.
• Representation of Colbun SA, the second largest electric generation company in Chile,  as lead counsel in the negotiation and drafting of agreements for regasification capacity rights in connection with the proposed expansion of the existing Quintero LNG regasification terminal in central Chile.
• Representation of Colombian electric generation companies Termobarranquilla S.A. E.S.P., Termocandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P. and Zona Franca Celsia S.A. E.S.P. in the negotiation and drafting of LNG regasification services agreements with respect to the LNG regasification terminal in Cartagena, Colombia. This terminal uses an FSRU.
• Representation of Compañia Minera Doña Ines de Collahuasi and BHP Billiton in the negotiation and drafting of LNG regasification services agreements with respect to the Mejillones LNG regasification terminal in northern Chile.  Incidental to this agreement, Jose led the negotiation and drafting of an operations and coordination agreement among all the various regasification customers of the terminal.
• Representation of BHP Billiton, acting on behalf of affiliate Minera Escondida S.A.,  in a tolling services agreement for the receipt of all electric energy output from the  Kelar 520MW power plant in exchange for regasified LNG from the Mejillones terminal as fuel and certain fixed payments. Minera Escondida operates the largest copper mine in the world.
• Representation of two Chilean electric generation companies as joint lead counsel in the development of an LNG terminal in central Chile with an FSRU and the procurement of LNG. There was no FID for this project.

Terminal services agreements for crude oil and fuel onshore and marine terminals.

• Representation of Repsol in the negotiation of a 450,000-barrel terminal services agreement relating to a marine fuels terminal currently under construction in Tuxpan, Mexico.
• Representation of a French company in the drafting of a terminal services agreement relating to a marine fuels terminal in the Dominican Republic.