Jonathan R. Winnick

/My focus

My practice focuses on corporate trust matters. I represent major financial institutions and trust companies in a broad range of financing and restructuring transactions, serving as trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, intercreditor agent, account bank, exchange agent, paying agent, escrow agent, and other agency and fiduciary capacities. I have extensive experience representing clients in project financings, corporate and municipal issuances of debt, private placements, escrow arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and asset-backed securitizations. My project finance work includes cross-border transactions in Latin America. In addition, I advise my corporate trust clients on the development of product-related policies and procedures, and other risk management and regulatory compliance matters.

/Representative experience

The representative experience listed below includes representations from a prior firm.

• Served as counsel to the administrative agent, offshore collateral agent and intercreditor agent in connection with VMOS S.A.’s $2 billion syndicated secured term loan facility to finance the development of the Vaca Muerta Sur Oil Pipeline project in Argentina. This transaction is the largest commercial loan for an infrastructure project in Argentine history and one of the top five oil and gas financings in Latin America. 
• Served as counsel to the offshore collateral agent in connection with Scala Data Centers’ $328M secured loan facility to fund the construction of three hyperscale data centers and the Nova Lampa substation in Chile, the largest data center project finance deal in Latin America.
• Served as counsel to the bond administrator agent and paying agent in connection with the closing of Grupo Energía Bogotá’s (GEB) $110M private placement on behalf of subsidiary Transportadora de Energía de Centroamérica SA (Trecsa), its subsidiary in Central America.
• Served as counsel to the administrative agent and collateral agent in connection with a $1.125 billion syndicated financing consisting of a $575 million term loan facility for HC Holding, S.A., an entity organized in Panama, and a $550 million syndicated secured term loan "A" and revolving credit facility for CHC US Beverage LP, based in Delaware. The two financings combined were used to fund the acquisition by Castillo Hermanos, a Guatemala-based multinational diversified business group, of Harvest Hill, which is one of the nation's largest independent branded beverage companies. 
• Served as counsel to the trustee, collateral agent, intercreditor agent and account bank in connection with Yinson Production’s USD 1.168 billion 144A/Reg S senior secured notes, which proceeds were used to refinance the floating production, storage and offloading vessel FPSO Maria Quitéria.
• Served as counsel to the collateral agent in connection with Nexamp’s $350 million financing from Macquarie Asset Management to support the construction of its first utility-scale solar and battery storage projects.
• Served as counsel to the administrative agent, collateral agent and depositary in connection with Nexamp’s secured loan financing from Nomura to advance its earlier-stage project development and sustain its robust national pipeline of utility-scale opportunities.
• Served as counsel to the administrative agent, offshore collateral agent, offshore account bank and intercreditor agent, and special New York counsel to the onshore collateral agent and onshore account bank in connection with a $700 million secured financing for the construction, operation, and maintenance of several wind projects under development by Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group and Hydro Rein, Norsk Hydro’s dedicated company for renewables development, in various regions of Brazil.
• Represented the administrative agent, account bank, and trustee in connection with an A/B purchase facility structure arranged by Inter-American Development Bank and Goldman Sachs that included a $900 million debt issuance for an electricity stabilization program in Chile.

/Looking ahead

Clients are encountering persistent uncertainty as they navigate the LIBOR transition and a host of other developments that will affect trustees and agents in the near term.