Mr. Viana concentrates on project finance, corporate and acquisition finance and structured trade and export finance. He frequently represents major international banks in their lending activities in those areas. He also frequently represents project sponsors and developers as equity investors, owners and in their other commercial and financial roles in major infrastructure, natural-resource, industrial and energy projects and portfolios, from initial investment to exit.

Mr. Viana has a particular focus on investments involving Latin America, Spain and/or the United States. In Latin America, he has worked on cross-border debt and/or equity investment transactions involving Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Mr. Viana also represents European and Latin American financial institutions and multinational companies in their investment, commercial and other business activities in the United States.

Among others, Mr. Viana has represented:

• Odebrecht in the development and financing of the 406 MW Chaglla hydroelectric (run-of-the-river) project in Peru.
• Natixis, as administrative agent, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. and Natixis, as lead lenders in a syndicate of 27 lenders, in connection with the negotiation and execution of a US$3 billion senior revolving export credit facility for Vale S.A., the world's second largest mining company, and its Swiss and Canadian subsidiaries.
• Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. in the development, procurement, construction and financing of its Etileno XXI olefins (ethylene and polyethylene) complex in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.
• Nitratos del Perú in the development, construction and project financing of an ammonia and ammonium nitrate petrochemical complex in Pisco, Peru.
• ISAGEN in connection with the procurement, development and financing of the 820 MW Hidrosogamoso hydroelectric (dam) project in Colombia.
• Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), as administrative agent and lead bank, in connection with a senior unsecured US$2 billion term loan facility for Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the national electric utility of Mexico.
• BBVA and certain of its affiliates as lead and agent bank in the US$737 million workout of the financial debt of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, a Mexico-based group with operations in Latin America, the United States and Europe.
• ENAP in connection with a US$200 million financing for the construction of an alkylation complex located within ENAP's Aconcagua Refinery in Concón, Chile. The financing consists of a US$100 million export credit facility that is partially guaranteed by Spain's export credit agency, CESCE, and a US$100 million commercial loan facility.
• China Development Bank in connection with two loans, together valued at over US$20 billion, to Venezuela's Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Venezuela. The financing is one of the largest that CDB has ever extended.
• BNP Paribas, as administrative agent and lead lender, in connection with ten syndicated facilities to Brazilian and Chilean banks totaling over US$3 billion.
• Minera Los Pelambres, a subsidiary of Antofagasta plc in connection with the US$750 million financing of the expansion of Los Pelambres through a US$505 million loan facility from six commercial banks and two export credit agencies, and a US$245 million loan facility from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
• ENAP and Petropower Energía in the development and financing of the proposed expansion of the delayed coker facilities at the Bío-Bío refinery in Talcahuano, Chile.
• BBVA Bancomer, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer, as administrative agent, and BBVA Securities, Inc., as sole lead arranger, in a senior secured US$169 million term loan facility for Internacional de Cerámica, S.A.B. de C.V.
• 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.
• Scotiabank Peru as borrower in a US$280 million syndicated senior term loan facility. Scotiabank, Peru's third largest bank, is a multiservice financial institution that provides various financial services.
• 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, as arranger, in connection with the US$106 million project 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 Olmos diversion tunnel and dam 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.
• 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 percent 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.

Bars and Courts
Florida State Bar, 2001
New York State Bar, 1998

Clerkships
Hon. Robert E. Keeton, US District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Education
JD, Yale Law School, 1997
BA, Yale University, magna cum laude, 1994

Awards and Recognition
Chambers Global 2011: Leading Individual, Latin America-wide Banking & Finance
Chambers Global 2011: Leading Individual, Latin America-wide Corporate/M&A
Chambers Global 2011: Leading Individual, Latin America-wide Projects
Chambers Global 2011: Regional Expert – Latin America, Banking & Finance
Chambers Global 2011: Regional Expert – Latin America, Corporate/M&A
Chambers Global 2011: Regional Expert – Latin America, Projects
Chambers Global 2011: Leading Individual, US Projects
Chambers Latin America 2010-2011: Leading Individual, Banking & Finance
Chambers Latin America 2009-2011: Leading Individual, Corporate/M&A
Chambers Latin America 2009-2011: Leading Individual, Projects

Languages
English
Spanish

Citizenship
United States