Ms. Acevedo is an associate in the Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Practice with experience in cross-border financial transactions involving commercial banks, sovereign states, multilateral lending agencies, export credit agencies and corporate entities. She has been involved in infrastructure and transportation equipment financings, related capital markets transactions and corporate restructuring of borrowers. Among others, Ms. Acevedo has represented:

• Representation of Los Esteros Critical Energy Facility, LLC in connection with the US$373 million construction and expansion financing of an approximately 309 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation facility to be located in the City of San Jose, California;
• Russell City Energy Company, LLC, an entity owned by Calpine Corporation and an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, in connection with the US$845 million project financing of an approximately 620 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation facility to be located in the City of Hayward, California;
• Aecon Group Inc., Andrade Gutierrez S.A., Airport Development Corporation and HAS Development Corporation (an affiliate of the Houston Airport System) in connection with a US$611 million project involving a 35-year concession to operate the existing Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador and to undertake the turnkey construction and operation of a new international airport and the subsequent renegotiation of the economic terms of the concession. Export Development Canada, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation provided debt financing for this project, which was named "2005 Latin American Airport Finance Deal of the Year" by Airfinance Journal and "2006 Latin American Transport Deal of the Year" by Project Finance magazine;
• Aviation Capital Group in connection with its first and second offerings of unsecured notes for US$600 million and US$750 million, respectively, the former of which was named "2010 Deal of the Year: North America" by Airfinance Journal;
• Jefferies & Co., as initial purchaser, in connection with the Rule 144A/Regulation S issuance by Indiana Downs LLC and its subsidiary of US$375 million senior secured notes and US$50 million subordinated secured notes and in connection with the Rule 144A/Regulation S issuance by Caribbean Restaurants, LLC, the exclusive Burger King franchisee in Puerto Rico, of US$149 million senior secured notes;
• The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as guaranteed lender, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) and TD Securities (USA) LLC, as initial purchasers, in connection with the Export-Import Bank of the United States-guaranteed financing of two Boeing 777-300 aircraft leased to Emirates and the offering of US$269 million of notes guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States and secured by such aircraft;
• A group of Chilean investors in Termocandelaria Power Ltd., the owner and operator of a 314 MW electricity generating facility in Colombia, in connection with the US$209 million restructuring of TPL's debt, including the Regulation S issuance of long-term and short-term secured notes and the subscription of stock;
• GMR Infrastructure Ltd. in its successful US$1.1 billion acquisition of a 50 percent interest in the global power generation company InterGen N.V. This transaction was named "2009 Infrastructure Acquisition of the Year" by Infrastructure Journal, "2009 India Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year" by Asian Legal Business, "2008 M&A Deal of the Year" by India Business Law Journal, and selected as "Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year" and "BMW Asia SE Asia Deal of the Year" at the ALB Law Awards 2009;
• Dutch utility Essent Energie Productie B.V. and its parent company, Essent N.V., as lessee counsel, in connection with the corporate restructuring of Essent, compliance with legislation relating to the deregulation of the Dutch energy sector, and the restructuring of, and replacement of collateral enhancement products related to several transactions from Essent's cross-border lease portfolio;
• Nacional Financiera, Sociedad Nacional de Crédito, Institución de Banca de Desarrollo, a Mexican banking institution, in connection with a US$31 million letter of credit facility granted by Banco Espirito Santo; and
• Aircraft operating lessors Aviation Capital Group and BOC Aviation in connection with several Export-Import Bank of the United States-guaranteed financings of Boeing aircraft.

In 2010, Ms. Acevedo represented The Nature Conservancy in Spanish and English bilingual negotiations to establish the Forever Costa Rica Project and a second debt-for-nature swap between the Costa Rican and US governments, totaling an unprecedented US$56 million in public and private funding for marine and tropical forest conservation, restoration and protection activities with the goal of making Costa Rica one of the first developing nations to meet the goals of the UN Convention on Biodiversity.

Ms. Acevedo also represented The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International Foundation in a 2007 debt-for-nature swap which provided more than US$26 million to help protect critically threatened tropical forests in Costa Rica, and in a 2006 debt-for-nature swap which provided approximately US$24 million for tropical forest conservation activities in Guatemala.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2006
District of Columbia Bar, 2007
US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2007
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2007

Education
JD, Columbia Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Parker School Recognition of Achievement in International and Foreign Law, 2005
BM, BM, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, summa cum laude, 1997

Languages
English
Spanish

Citizenship
United States