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Denise Grant
Biography
Denise has over 25 years of experience advising lenders and borrowers on the most complex corporate, acquisition and project related financings across the Americas.
The breadth of Denise’s practice is expansive both geographically and across sectors. She covers all major markets in Latin America with a strong foothold in Chile, Mexico and Peru and spans key sectors, including banking, energy, mining, consumer products, investments and retail.
Her client base is equally diverse with a mix of corporates and state-owned borrowers and lenders to such borrowers, including Peruvian mining company, Volcan, Peru’s largest consumer goods company, Alicorp, and Chilean power company, Transelec, as well as state-owned oil and gas company ENAP, and the lenders to Petrobras, Pemex and The Bahamas. Denise’s practice is complemented by a longstanding roster of international commercial bank clients, including Credit Agricole, Bank of America, Citibank, Scotiabank, and BBVA among others. In the US, Denise serves as the go to borrower’s counsel for multinationals such as The Olayan Group, American Axle and Paramount Global in their multi-billion financings related to corporate matters and strategic acquisitions in the respective sectors.
A longstanding champion of inclusion, Denise is a founder of the firm’s Inclusion Committee. With her leadership, the initiative has become part of the DNA of the firm, which has been recognized as “Top Firm for Diversity” by The American Lawyer and one of the “Best Law Firms for Minority Attorneys and for Minority Equity Partners” by Law360.
Practice areas
- Project development and finance
- Finance
- Leveraged finance
- Investment grade debt
- Trade, commodity and export credit finance
- Leveraged finance and high yield
Sectors
- Energy
- Power
- Oil and gas
- Infrastructure and transport
- Mining and metals
- Financial institutions
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Automotive
Selected experience
- The lenders in connection with a $1.54 billion three-year senior unsecured revolving credit facility for Comisión Federal de Electricidad de México, the largest state-owned electric utility of Mexico.
- Transelec, a leading power company in Chile, in connection with its revolving credit facilities for corporate financing and a project financing related to the company’s expansion in the Chilean transmission market.
- Barclays Bank, as arranger, in connection with a $500 million senior unsecured credit facility that, jointly with a $1.1 billion equity contribution from Pemex, funded the acquisition of Pemex’s 50% stake in Deer Park Refining, L.P. (Deer Park) from Shell.
- The lenders in connection with facilities for subsidiaries and affiliates of Mexican conglomerate, Grupo Alfa, including Nemak, Sigma, Alpek, and Axtel.
- American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., as borrower on the $2.55 billion financing acquisition of Metaldyne Performance Group, Inc. and all the company’s former and subsequent financings.
- Paramount Global on its $3.5 billion revolving credit facility and the $1.62 billion sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR.
- Alicorp, the largest Peruvian consumer goods company, in connection with a series of unsecured senior loans totaling $420 million.
- Scotiabank, BBVA and Bank of America, as arrangers, in connection with a $200 million green loan facility to Copec S.A., which will be used to finance new energy and electromobility projects and to enhance the portfolio of new businesses related to the energy transition.
- The lenders in connection with a series of loans (aggregate value $897 million) to Cencosud, one of Latin America’s largest retailers, with respect to Cencosud’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Fresh Market, a premium specialty grocer with 160 stores across the United States.
- Volcan as borrower, and Compañía Minera, Óxidos de Pasco and Empresa Administradora Cerro, as guarantors, in connection with a $400 million four-year senior unsecured credit facility provided to Volcan for the refinancing of its outstanding 5.375 percent Senior Notes.
Education
- B.A., International Relations and Affairs, George Washington University, 1986 J.D., Georgetown University, 1989
Admissions
- Washington, DC, 1991 New York State (First Dept), 1990