Clifford Chance
Gianluca Bacchiocchi is a partner in the Global Financial Markets team with a focus in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Gianluca has experience representing sponsors, issuers and underwriters in cross-border capital markets transactions as well as infrastructure clients and their sponsors in a range of domestic and international securitization matters, including Rule 144A/Reg S of government receivables and revolving credit facilities, private placements, and hybrid transactions.
- Mizuho and Banistmo on the inaugural securitization and 144A/Reg S US$1.4 billion zero coupon second tranche of the milestone-based receivables financing for the construction of the fourth bridge over the Panama Canal (Infrastructure Financing of the Year: Central America by LatinFinance)
- Citibank and Santander along with 8 joint bookrunners and co-managers on the US$1.035 billion senior secured notes issuance by Yinson Boronia Production B.V. to refinance the FPSO Anna Nery, as well as Citibank, Bladex, and ING as lenders, with respect to a letter of credit facility to fund the reserve accounts where the issuer was also the borrower under the credit facility (Oil & Gas Financing of the Year by LatinFinance)
- Carlyle and other creditors in connection with the purchase of US$750 million senior secured notes due 2029 to finance 28 parking facilities of Green Courte Partners portfolio company, The Parking Spot
- Samsung Asset Management and HSBC Asset Management, as investors for their managed accounts, in US$135 million dual delayed-draw private placements structured by Credit Agricole Securities for the Reden Group’s 180 MW PMGD portfolios
- Paracel S.A., an afforestation and pulp mill project in Paraguay, in a strategic equity investment agreement with Austrian pulp and paper company, Heinzel Holding GmbH, in which Heinzel will hold 25% of Paracel's shares at project completion
- Multiple parties in the second-ever international securitization of government receivables Paraguayan public works project, including
- Itau, as structurer, and a Cayman Islands special purpose vehicle, as purchaser and issuer, in the approximately US$128 million sale and purchase facility to acquire Paraguayan government receivables — Certificados de Reconocimiento de la Obligación de Pago (CROPs) — from the Paraguayan joint venture (Consorcio del Sur) that was awarded the Project
- Itau, as structurer and note purchaser, and KfW IPEX-Bank and MetLife, as note purchasers, in the approximately US$130 million Section 4(a)(2) private placement of notes to fund the purchase of CROPs by the issuer
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, New York
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- Speaks Italian and Portuguese
Career and qualifications
- University of Michigan, BA, Economics and Mathematics 1994
- New York University School of Law, JD 1998
- Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 1999
- Joined Clifford Chance as partner 2025
Awards and citations
- "One of our go-to lawyers when it comes to highly structured deals. If we're taking a risk in a deal, I like to have him by my side."
Chambers Latin America 2025 - "Amazing lawyer who brings together a keen sense of business,sophistication in his work and an impressive service."
Chambers Latin America 2025 - "[One] of the best lawyers I have ever worked with."
The Legal 500 Latin America - "Excellent [lawyer], with a lot of experience in complex capital market transactions and with a lot of knowledge of the Latin American market."
The Legal 500 Latin America 2024 - Leading Lawyer – Projects & Energy
The Legal 500 Latin America 2024 - "Gianluca Bacchiocchi is very thoughtful, attentive to details, and extremely practical when it comes to making the deal happen."
Chambers Latin America 2024 - Leading Lawyer – Finance: Project Finance
The Legal 500 United States 2023