White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Linda Jeannine Acevedo

Practice Experience

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

Saudi Arabian Oil Company in connection with a multi-billion dollar oil refinery project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and an industrial park in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia;
GMR Infrastructure Ltd. in its successful acquisition of a 50 percent interest in the global power generation company InterGen N.V. for a purchase price of US$1.1 billion;
Aecon Construction Group, Andrade Gutierrez S.A., Airport Development Corporation of Canada and 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; the Export Development Corporation of Canada, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation have provided debt financing for this project (named “2006 Latin American Transport Deal of the Year” by Project Finance Magazine);
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;
A group of Chilean investors in Termocandelaria Power Ltd., the owner and operator of a 314MW 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;
Jefferies & Co. as initial purchaser in connection with the Rule 144A/Regulation S issuance by Caribbean Restaurants, LLC of US$149 million senior secured notes and the related security agreements;
Pegasus Hava Taşimaciliği, A.Ş. as lessee in connection with the Export-Import Bank of the United States guaranteed financing of three Boeing 737-800 aircraft; and
Aviation Capital Group, Corp., in connection with the Export-Import Bank of the United States guaranteed financing of two Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Ms. Acevedo was also involved in the pro bono representation of The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International Foundation in the largest debt-for-nature swap in history under the U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act whereby debt owed by the Central Bank of Costa Rica to the government of the United States was restructured to provide more than US$26 million to help protect critically threatened tropical forests in Costa Rica.

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