Martin Gualino

In his international practice, Martin helps clients structure capital flows into Latin America and the Caribbean. He is qualified in both civil and common law, and has worked on transactions involving the majority of countries across the region.

Martin is a native Spanish speaker and has working knowledge of Portuguese. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Martin spent 5 years practicing law in Argentina, including 4 years in the corporate practice of a prominent top law firm in Buenos Aires and, before moving to the firm’s New York office, he spent a year in Mayer Brown’s Chicago office.

• The investor in several tax-equity investment commitments totalizing approx. US$350 million into solar energy generation and battery storage facilities located in Maine, Hawaii and Arizona, totalizing approx. 142 MW AC and 213 MW AC respectively.
• The arranger, lender, agent and issuing bank in a US$102.8 million senior loan and letter of credit facility secured by multiple portfolios of residential solar systems located in California.
• The lenders and the administrative and collateral agent, in a US$100 million development credit facility to finance the development and construction of a portfolio of utility-scale solar energy generation and battery storage facilities located across the US.
• The lender and administrative agent, in a warehouse facility to finance the construction and operation of a pipeline of distributed generation solar projects across the US.
• The lender in a US$200 million bilateral unsecured term loan to a Chilean mining company.
• The lender in two bilateral unsecured sustainability linked term loans to a Brazilian company for an aggregate of US$325 million.
• The arranger and lender in two warehouse facilities for an aggregate of up to US$100 million to bankruptcy-remote Colombian trusts, secured by different portfolios of payroll loans.
• The lender, administrative and collateral agent, in several warehouse facilities for an aggregate of up to US$~1.3 billion to bankruptcy-remote Mexican and Colombian trusts, secured by different portfolios of vehicles and SME, consumer and auto loans.
• The originator in a US$~540 million cash flow loan transaction to a bankruptcy-remote Mexican trust, secured by a portfolio of auto loans.
• The arranger in connection with the establishment of a loans program and the initial issuance of loans to a Mexican trust for US$~287 million.
• The arranger in connection with the establishment of a merchant voucher program and the US$70 million initial issuance of loans through a Cayman Islands vehicle established by an Ecuadorian company.
• The Mexican borrower in the sustainability linked refinancing of a US$500 million loan facility, consisting of a US$200 million 4-year term loan facility and US$300 million 3-year revolving credit facility.