Christian Rudloff is counsel in the Project Development & Finance practice.

He focuses on the development, acquisition, restructuring, privatization and financing of energy, oil & gas and other development projects around the world with a particular emphasis on cross-border transactions in Latin America.

Christian represents sponsors, lenders, underwriters, multi-lateral agencies, off-takers, suppliers, and contractor clients.

• The borrowers and sponsors in connection with the approximate $235 million financing for the development, construction and operation of two solar photovoltaic projects in Mexico – Solem I, a 150 MWac solar photovoltaic power plant and Solem II, a 140MWac solar photovoltaic power plant. The two projects combined will become the largest photovoltaic solar power plant in Mexico and Latin America to date
• A state authority in the Middle East and North Africa region on the development and financing of a first-in-kind and first-in-country $25 billion nuclear new build project and negotiating the EPC, Fuel Supply, O&M and Radioactive Waste Treatment contracts
• Lenders’ counsel on multiple aspects of the proposed $7.33 billion Gasoducto Sur Perúano project, a more than 1,000 km gas pipeline in Peru. This was one of the largest infrastructure projects to come to market in the history of Peru’s energy sector
• GDF Suez and Marubeni on the proposed development and financing for the GNL del Plata project, a floating LNG regasification facility of the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay
• CABEI on the $208 million financing of the Choluteca I Project, a 23.32 MW PV power plant, the Choluteca II Project, a 35.08 MW PV power plant and the Pacifico Project, a 23.27 MW PV power plant, all located in Honduras
• ING Capital on the $325 million financing of three natural gas-fired simple-cycle power plants, totaling up to approximately 1,381 MW of combined generating power in Illinois, owned by RA Generation, a subsidiary of LS Power
• Carso Energy, as sponsor, on the $240 million secured bridge financing of the natural gas pipeline running from Samalayuca, Chihuahua, to Sásabe, Sonora, in Mexico
• The lenders, including GE Financial Services, on a financing for the construction of an approximately 485 MW combined-cycle natural gas-fired electric generation facility being developed by Ares EIF and EmberClear in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
• The lenders on the approximately $890 million senior secured financing for the development, construction, operation and maintenance of the Los Ramones II Sur gas transportation system in Mexico