Linklaters Awarded IJInvestor’s Latin America Oil and Gas M&A Deal of the Year

Linklaters has been awarded IJInvestor’s 2023 Latin America Oil and Gas M&A Deal of the Year for the firm’s work advising Fluxys SA, a leading Belgian energy infrastructure company, on its joint acquisition with institutional investor EIG Global Energy Partners, of an 80% equity stake in GNL Quintero S.A. from Enagas Chile SpA and affiliates of OMERS Infrastructure. This is the sixth IJInvestor Deal of the Year Award for Linklaters’ global Energy & Infrastructure team this year.

Quintero is the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Chile and is a key energy infrastructure business supporting Chile’s decarbonization strategy. The country is aiming to become one of the world’s three largest green hydrogen producers with plans to install 200 GW of renewable power by 2040 to produce green hydrogen, with LNG distribution infrastructure being critical to hydrogen distribution.

The Linklaters team was led by Energy & Infrastructure Partner Andrew Compton, Corporate Partner Pierre-Emmanuel Perais, and Energy & Infrastructure Counsel Will Kim in New York.

The team also included Managing Associate Lothar Van Driessche in Brussels, and Associate Arthur Lindemann in Munich.

Linklaters’ Americas Energy & Infrastructure team remains at the forefront of the market advising on the development and financing of complex, large-scale projects and mergers and acquisitions in the energy and infrastructure sector, particularly in connection with renewable and carbon transition projects.

Linklaters is ranked Band 1 for Projects & Energy and Multi-Jurisdictional Corporate/M&A in Chambers Global 2023, and was recently recognized with IJInvestor’s Americas Conventional Power & Grid Infrastructure Deal of the Year Award, PFI’s Americas Hydrogen Deal of the Year Award, and The M&A Advisor’s Law Firm of the Year Award.