Infralogic Investors Forum - Latin America
The Infralogic Investors Forum - Latin America returns in-person to Miami!
JW Marriott Miami, Brickell, Miami, Florida
30
Nov
Panel: Investment opportunities in the energy transition and energy storage
Global emissions goals to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 presents challenges and opportunities to infrastructure developers and investors in Latin America. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that emerging countries, including much of Latin America, will need USD 1trn per year between now and 2050 to finance their energy transition. According to the IEA, achieving that goal will require a prominent role for the private sector. This panel will discuss:
- How can governments make investment in the region’s energy transition more appealing to foreign investors?
- China invested USD 58bn in Latin America’s energy sector between 2000 and 2020, over 15% towards renewables. What will China’s role in investing in Latin America’s energy transition be?
- How will volatility in the region affect the cost of capital and renewable energy projects’ achieving investment and development?
- Should governments do more to support the energy transition such as offering subsidies or blocking private investment in fossil fuels?
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SpeakersJorge Camina Partner & Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Credit Denham Capital Management
Leon Valera Managing Director, Energy Group Societe Generale
Alan Cooper Chief Executive Officer On.Energy
Jean Francois Joachim Peñuela CFO VGMobility
Jennifer P. Roig Senior Reporter InfralogicJP
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Mr. Camiña is a Partner and Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Credit. Jorge brings over 20 years experience in project finance and investment management, having held senior positions at both Allianz Global Investors and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking. In his most recent role, as Director of Infrastructure Debt at Allianz Global Investors since 2016, Mr. Camiña was responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of Infrastructure Debt investments in the Americas. He led the execution of a strategic shift towards renewable power across US and Latin America, investing in over three gigawatts of solar and wind assets. He was also member of the Infrastructure Debt investment committee. Jorge received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration by Deusto Business School in Spain.
Leon Valera heads the Latin America practice for the Energy Group at SG . Mr. Valera has over 20 years of experience in the origination and structuring of transaction across the energy and infrastructure sectors. His expertise includes financial advisory, arranging financing across multiple sources (Banks, Capital Markets, MLAs), as well as dedicated equity raising for projects.
- Prior to joining SG, Mr. Valera spent time as part of Global Structured Solutions at Citigroup and the Debt Capital Market department at Deutsche Bank.
- Mr. Valera’s experience includes Tellurian, RLAM Refinery, Gatun Power, TAG Pipeline, El Llano solar, Enfragen, ARCO Solar, Tierra Mojada, Nueva Era pipeline, Cerro Dominador, Ichthys LNG, Delek’s Tamar, and Fermaca’s pipelines in Mexico.
- Mr. Valera holds a B.S. in International Finance and Economics from Babson College
Entrepreneur Alan Cooper co-founded On.Energy with Ricardo de Azevedo in 2015. In his role as CEO, Cooper brings a proven track record of successfully bringing to market diverse energy technologies that integrate complex hardware with software and business models that create value for customers and for shareholders. When most of the energy marketplace was still looking at renewables, Cooper saw the viability of energy storage systems, giving rise to On.Energy - helping to build the company’s energy management system, structuring industry-first financial models for no-money-down BESS and successfully raising over $120M of capital & project equity for On.Energy.
Strengthened by heritage and inspired by innovation, he founded and scaled Cooper Precision Companies alongside his father Norman, where he currently sits as a board member, growing their energy services division to operations in 6 countries, staffing over 300 people and generating +20M in EBITDA. The group of U.S.-based energy technology companies got their start servicing the oil and gas industry and have since expanded into supporting energy transition technologies, embracing both history and history in the making.
Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Economics from the University of Toronto and is a member of YPO, a global community of diverse and extraordinary CEOs.
Jean has over 12 years of experience in investment banking including corporate finance and structuring private equity funds.
He has led the structuring and closure of cross-border transactions and resource for more than 20 private equity funds, managing total assets of over $ 2 billion among institutional investors in Europe and the US.
Jean is a former founding partner of Athos Partners, a company specialized in supporting private equity fund managers operating in private debt, mezzanine, and infrastructure debt, amongst others.
He has also worked for Rothschild as part of their investment banking team in Paris and as an assistant to the financial management of AXA investment managers.
Jeans holds an Economics and Business Administration degree. with a Masters in banking and finance from the University Paris II – Assas in Paris.