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Silvia Menendez

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Partner
Silvia Menendez

Silvia Menendez is a Spanish member of the Americas Energy & Infrastructure Group. She focuses her practice on cross-border capital markets and banking and finance transactions with a Latin American component.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Silvia acquired significant experience as an associate at Garrigues in Spain. 

  • Representing Mizuho Bank and SMBC as arrangers and lenders in the approximately US$390 million financing of the construction of a metro line in Peru, which included a working capital facility and a structured loan financing with a capital markets component
  • Representing the underwriters with respect to a Rule 144A/Reg S project bond that will be used to refinance the Ruta 27 toll road in Costa Rica. This was the first time a Costa Rican entity operating an infrastructure asset issued project finance-style bonds, and the first time also that both bonds were issued simultaneously for a Costa Rican issuer
  • Representing Morgan Stanley on the structuring of a term loan refinancing to AlphaCredit in Mexico
  • Representing several real estate and aircraft leasing funds in the financing of subscription line facilities
  • Clifford Chance Wins Big at the 2017 LatinFinance Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards
    10 October 2017
    Press Release

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Career & qualifications

  • Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICADE (Law Degree) 2012
  • Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICADE (Business Management Degree) 2013
  • Admitted as an abogado in Madrid 2013
  • Columbia Law School (LL.M.) 2016
  • Joined Clifford Chance 2016
  • Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2017

Professional bodies

  • Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid
    • New York State Bar