Practice Experience
Mr. Anderson joined White & Case in 2000 and concentrates on international finance and banking, especially in areas of securities and project financing. His languages include English, Portuguese and Spanish and he is admitted to practice both in New York and in Brazil. Mr. Anderson also worked at White & Case's New York office and completed a six-month secondment at GE Commercial Finance Capital Solutions (Equipment Finance Division).
Representative matters:
- Representation of Citi, Santander and HSBC as initial purchasers, in the Rule 144A and Regulation S offer and sale of US$700 million 5.25 percent senior secured notes due 2018 by QGOG Atlantic/Alaskan Rigs Ltd., a British Virgin Islands affiliate of Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A. (QGOG), the largest Brazilian privately held provider of drilling and production services;
- Representation of the Arrangers in the largest issuance of 2010 – the US$1.5 billion project bond issuance by a subsidiary of Odebrecht Óleo e Gás S.A., which was named "Latin American Project Bond of the Year" by International Financing Review and Project Finance and "Best Project Financing Deal of the Year" by LatinFinance;
- Representation of a syndicate of banks, including Banco ABC Brasil, Bradesco BBI, Banco do Brasil, BTG Pactual, Banco Itaú BBA, Rabobank, Santander, Banco Votorantim, HSBC, ING and RBS, in negotiating and documenting the US$490.2 restructuring of US dollar and real-denominated debt of LDC-SEV Bioenergia S.A. and Usina Continental S.A.;
- Representation of Fibria Celulose S.A. (the company resulting from a merger between Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A. and Aracruz Celulose S.A.), in connection with a US$1.175 billion secured export prepayment facility to its Hungarian export trading company. The facility was jointly arranged by Banc of America Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., with Union Bank N.A. acting as administrative agent and collateral agent. (Pre-export Financing Deal of the Year 2009 - Trade Finance);
- Representation of Calyon, Milan Branch and Natixis, Milan Branch in their capacity as accreting (SOAR) lenders in the SOAR loan granted to the lessors, in the structuring and negotiation of a complex Italian tax lease of four Boeing aircraft to the Brazilian airline TAM, for a total deal value of approximately US$640 million. The deal included the negotiation of the financing documentation, including lease agreements, indemnity agreements, security documents and the facility agreements between PEFCO, US Ex-Im Bank, Calyon, Natixis, Société Générale and TAM. (2008 Latin America Deal of the Year – Airfinance).
Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2006
Education
LLM, Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, 2005 LLM, with distinction, University of Warwick (Warwick Law School), 2003 BL, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, 1999
Publications
Co-authored chapter entitled "Overview on Eurobond Issuances by Brazilian Issuers," in International Business Transactions with Brazil, Juris Publishing Inc., 2008. "Regulatory and Supervisory Independence: Is there a case for independent monetary authorities in Brazil?", ABA/SMU/University of London Law and Business Review of the Americas, Spring Edition, 2004. "Corporate Governance in Brazil: Recent Improvements and New Challenges," ABA/SMU/University of London Law and Business Review of the Americas, Spring Edition, 2003. "A Tributação das Entidades Fechadas de Previdência Privada - Uma visão geral" (Taxation of closed pension funds - an overview), in Revista de Direito Tributário Atual, No. 16, Editora Dialética, São Paulo, Brazil, 2002.
Languages
English Portuguese Spanish
Citizenship
Brazil
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