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, 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.
• Served as counsel to the administrative agent and depositary bank and special New York counsel to the collateral agent and security trustee in connection with a $1.25 billion secured financing to Lima Airport Partners to expand the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru. The deal was awarded LatinFinance’s 2023 Infrastructure Financing of the Year and Latin America & Airport Financing of the Year.
• 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.
• Represented the offshore collateral agent and offshore account bank in connection with a $368 million loan facility for AES Dominicana Renewable Energy SA to finance the development of new renewable energy projects in the Dominican Republic.
• Served as counsel to the indenture trustee and collateral agent in connection with a $1.35 billion 144A/Reg. S high-yield senior secured notes offering of NCR Atleos Corporation.
• Represented the administrative agent in connection with a $535 million senior unsecured export prepayment credit facility for Marfrig Global Foods, one of the largest beef producers in the world.
• Served as counsel to the trustee and intercreditor agent in connection with Auna’s $550 million secured term loan refinancing and issuance of new notes in an aggregate principal amount of $250.4 million.
• Served as counsel to the offshore collateral agent and offshore depositary in connection with a $624 million financing facility for Sonnedix’s acquisition of Chilean renewable energy producer Arcadia Generacion Solar and its four operating photovoltaic plants from Enel Chile, which also included the refinancing of Atacama Solar, Sonnedix’s largest operational utility-scale project in Chile.
• Served as counsel to the collateral agent and depositary bank in connection with a $141 million financing facility for the acquisition, development, construction, operation, and ownership of Recurrent Energy’s large-scale energy facility in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.
• Served as counsel to the purchase contract agent, collateral agent, and securities intermediary in connection with NiSource’s $750 million offering of 7.5 million equity units.

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.