Mr. Viana concentrates on corporate, structured and project finance, joint ventures, and M&A.  He has a breadth of cross-border transactional experience spanning the Americas, and his practice frequently involves inbound and outbound investments by companies doing business or based in the United States, Latin America or Spain.

Mr. Viana represents leading debt investors, sponsors and other equity investors, as well as borrowers and issuers, in secured and unsecured corporate, trade and project financings.  He has been involved in financings in a wide range of sectors, including banking, hospitality, infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, power, real estate, cement, agroindustry and telecommunications, and for credit parties in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.

Mr. Viana also represents US, European and Latin American multinational companies and other strategic investors in their M&A, investment and other business activities in Latin America and the United States.

Among others, Mr. Viana has recently represented:

• BNP Paribas and Bayerische Hypo-Und Vereinsbank AG as joint lead arrangers in a US$400 million term loan facility provided to Banco Itau BBA S.A.  Banco Itau is the second largest bank in Brazil, and one of the largest banks in Latin America.
• JPMorgan Securities, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as lead arranger and administrative agent in the US$200 million senior secured facility for Hochschild Mining plc, guaranteed by Minera Ares and secured by certain Peruvian collateral.
• Telefónica Móviles Colombia S.A. and Telefónica S.A. in connection with a US$600 million term loan facility under the A/B loan program of the Inter-American Development Bank.
• Alterra Partners, and its 50/50 owners Bechtel Enterprises and Singapore Changi Airport, in the sale of their majority-owner and other sponsor interests in Lima Airport Partners (LAP), and LAP's issuance of US$164 million of senior secured notes under Rule 144A/Reg S for the purpose of refinancing its ECA/project finance facilities.
• BBVA, Calyon and Citigroup as joint bookrunners in the senior secured US$1.7 billion term and revolving loan facilities provided to the Mexican project subsidiaries of Iberdrola, S.A., the Spanish power company.
• BNP Paribas as bookrunner and administrative agent in the US$1.125 billion and US$1.156 billion revolving credit facilities for Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
• BBVA, New York Branch, as arranger, in connection with the US$106 million senior secured term loan financing for the construction of Drake Cement’s cement plant and associated limestone quarry in Yavapai County, Arizona, sponsored by Cementos Lima S.A.
• Construtora Norberto Odebrecht, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Concesionaria Trasvase Olmos in the US$247 million PPP/project co-financing of the first phase of the Olmos 2 billion cubic meter/yr., 100,000 ha. diversion tunnel and dam irrigation project, and 624 MW hydroelectric project, in Lambayeque, Peru. 
• BNP Paribas, as administrative agent and sole lead arranger and bookrunner, in the US$650 million trade-linked syndicated revolving credit facility for CVRD International S.A., guaranteed by Vale.
• Scotiabank Peru S.A.A. in its US$280 million syndicated senior term loan facility.
• BBVA, as administrative agent and sole lead arranger and bookrunner, in the US$400 million syndicated term loan facility of Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (CODELCO).
• WestLB AG, New York Branch as lead arranger and administrative agent in the US$80 million syndicated senior secured acquisition and refinancing credit facility for Pesquera Exalmar S.A.
• BellSouth International and BellSouth Colombia in the US$653 million refinancing and restructuring of the senior secured and subordinated credit facilities of BellSouth Colombia, and in the sale of BellSouth Colombia to Telefónica Móviles.
• Bank of America as agent and a syndicate comprised of 20 international banks in the out-of-court and Chapter 11 in-court restructurings of the 1,000 MW Chivor hydroelectric project in Colombia and its US$400 million senior secured project-style facility (including its eventual 100% prepayment).
• Scotiabank Inverlat and The Bank of Nova Scotia, in the construction and term loan facilities for the US$250 million Torre Mayor office-tower project in Mexico City, Mexico, the tallest building in Latin America.
• BayernLB, as administrative agent and sole lead arranger and bookrunner, in the US$400 million trade-related syndicated term loan facility for Banco de Crédito e Inversiones of Chile.
• Minera El Tesoro, a subsidiary of Antofagasta Minerals, in the refinancing of its senior secured and export credit facilities totaling US$204 million, and its initial US$300 million project and shareholder financings.
• Telefónica Móviles Chile S.A. and Telefónica S.A. in the US$180 million syndicated term loan facility of Telefónica Móviles Chile S.A. 
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as administrative agent in the US$200 million syndicated loan facility of Banco de Chile.
• Calyon as administrative agent in the US$130 million assignment, amendment and restatement of the senior secured credit facility of AES Gener S.A. into an expanded unsecured term loan facility. 
• BBVA as lead arranger and administrative agent in a US$250 million syndicated term loan facility provided to Mexican cement manufacturer Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V.