Rafael Breves de Toledo
The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036
Rafael focuses on domestic and international project and acquisition financings, restructurings, and other debt and equity financing transactions involving infrastructure and energy projects. Rafael has more than ten years of experience in Brazil (Pinheiro Neto Advogados) and the United States (Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP). He is qualified to practice law in Brazil and New York. He received an LL.M. Degree, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, from Columbia Law School.
Experience Highlights
A fiber company in connection with its inaugural senior secured green loan for the construction and development of an independent fiber-to-the-home network
Lenders in connection with a successful Chapter 11 purchase of certain bitcoin mega-mining data center facilities located in Nebraska and Texas
Lenders in connection with a project financing to a data center company
A private equity fund and its portfolio company in connection with the development and financing of a transmission line, in a 2022 deal of the year
Lenders in connection with certain mezz, construction and tax equity financings for certain solar assets, in a 2021 North American solar deal of the year
Sponsor and borrower in connection with a construction financing of a natural gas storage facility located in Texas
A private equity fund in connection with the acquisition of Nova Transportadora do Sudeste – NTS, a natural gas transporter, from Petrobras, in a 2017 deal of the year
A Japanese trading company in connection with the acquisition of Petrobras Gás S.A -Gaspetro, a holding of 18 local gas distribution companies, from Petrobras
An Ad-Hoc Committee of Bondholders in the restructuring and DIP financing of the largest private oil and gas company in Brazil, in a 2013 restructuring deal of the year
A private equity fund in connection with certain aspects of the acquisition of Refinaria Landulpho Alves (RLAM) refinery in Brazil from Petrobras
A German company in the negotiation and formation of a consortium with a Brazilian supplier for the export of FPSO Modules to Petrobras
Sponsor and borrower in connection with a back-leverage debt financing of a solar project located in Texas
Sponsor and borrower in connection with a back-leverage debt financing of a wind project located in California
An investor in connection with its acquisition of a co-control stake in a distributed solar and battery storage infrastructure developer
A private equity fund in connection with its investment in a developer of a carbon capture and storage project
A private equity fund in connection with the acquisition, tax equity financing and back-leverage debt financing of a utility scale 40 MW-ac solar PV project located in California
A private equity fund in connection with its bid to acquire a portfolio of contracted and under development wind farms
Lenders in connection with two acquisition financings for the acquisition of certain power plants by the borrower
A lender in connection with several project finance transactions in Latin America, including for the financing of a solar PV power plant in Panama and a water treatment plant in Brazil
A private equity fund in connection with its leveraged buyout of a portfolio of natural-gas-fired electricity generation plants located in Massachusetts
A Japanese trading company in the sale of its 50% stake in an ethanol company in Brazil to Dow Chemical
A private equity fund in connection with the acquisition of a U.S. and Mexico-based logistics car processing port terminal portfolio
A German company in connection with certain project finance transactions for the export of buses from Brazil to certain other Latin American countries with a financing from BNDES
A technology company in connection with the negotiation of a joint venture carve-out transaction in Brazil
A technology company in connection with its Series C investment in a grocery’s delivery start-up with subsidiaries in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Canada
A healthcare company in connection with the negotiation and formation of a joint venture with certain Brazilian partners for the distribution products in Brazil
Credentials
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Bachelor of Laws, 2012
- Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais – IBMEC, Executive MBA – Finance, 2015
- Columbia Law School, Masters in Laws (LL.M.) (Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2019
- New York
- Brazil
- Portuguese (fluent)
- French (proficient)
- Spanish (proficient)