Gianluca Bacchiocchi is a partner in the Global Financial Markets team with a focus in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Gianluca has significant experience financing energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally on behalf of developers, financial sponsors, issuers, banks, initial purchasers and placement agents in the capital markets, the bank lending market, private capital financings, and hybrid transactions. He has financed everything from data centers to renewable and traditional power, metro lines, roads, hospitals, ports, airports, bridges, water transportation, water desalination, parking and FPSOs. Gianluca has been involved in some of the most innovative, award-winning financings and advises clients in structured and hybrid capital financing transactions.
- PIMCO in a US$27.3 billion 144A/Reg S securities offering by funds managed by Blue Owl Capital, funding a joint venture with Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) for the development and operation of the 2,700-acre Hyperion Data Center in Richland Parish, Louisiana.
- Citibank and J.P. Morgan, as global coordinators, and 9 joint bookrunners and co-managers on Yinson Bergenia Production B.V.'s (Yinson Production) 144A/Reg S offering of approximately US$1.17 billion in 8.498% Senior Secured Notes due 2045, and counsel to issuing lenders under a letter of credit facility.
- Apollo and Apollo-managed affiliates, funds and other long-term investors in the US$600 million acquisition of a 50% interest in Vale Oman Distribution Center from Vale S.A.
- 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 senior secured notes due 2030 to finance parking facilities of Green Courte Partners
- 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
- BNP Paribas and other lenders, in the acquisition financing of the largest LNG regasification terminal in Chile, in which Fluxys and EIG acquired an aggregate 80% equity stake in GNL Quintero S.A. from Enagás Chile SpA and affiliates of OMERS Infrastructure (Latin America LNG Deal of the Year 2022, Proximo)
- Coatue Management in a preferred equity investment in Scala Data Centers
- Blackrock in the holdco financing of 99MW CCTG and 850MW CCTG plants in Mexico, developed by Energia del Valle de Mexico
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, New York
- +1 212 878-3256
- Email me
- Speaks Italian and Portuguese
Career & 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
- Recognized as a Leading Partner
Legal 500 USA 2025 - "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