Skip to Main Content
SubPractice_Hero_Corporate-Trust

Overview

Our seasoned and knowledgeable attorneys serve as counsel to leading corporate trustees and agents worldwide. Knowing the nature and satisfaction of their document-based duties and fiduciary responsibilities, we can advise you on all aspects of your agency and trust matters. We provide you with experienced, solution-driven, and measured counsel across the full spectrum of agency and trust situations, including transaction closing, post-closing, and deal administration matters. We also offer default and bankruptcy counsel that strives to protect your interests throughout negotiations, settlements, and proceedings.

A comprehensive perspective helps our clients grow their business while managing risk.

We are guided by principles of responsiveness, cost efficiency, and precision. Our corporate trust attorneys concentrate on representing and protecting agents and trustees while delivering results—and value—in a challenging market. As a business-focused firm, Hinckley Allen offers a broad understanding of the latest developments in the legal, administrative, and transactional environment in which agents and trustees operate.

Services

We offer a full complement of services involving all types of financial products, including:

  • Project Finance
  • Loan Agency
  • Corporate Debt
  • Escrow and other Specialized Agency
  • Municipal Debt
  • Securitization
  • Matters involving defaults and bankruptcy, regulatory compliance, internal policies and procedures, government investigations, and litigation

Experience

Sampling of 2023 Transactions:

  • 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 being developed 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 2023 Infrastructure Financing of the year and Airport Financing of the year.
  • Represented the Administrative Agent, Account Bank and Trustee in connection with an A/B purchase facility structure arranged by IDB and Goldman that included a $900 million debt issuance for an electricity stabilization program in Chile.
  • Served as counsel to the Offshore Collateral Agent, Offshore Accounts Bank, and Guarantee Offshore Accounts Bank in connection with the a $130 million (with the potential to increase to up to $180 million) limited recourse project financing to support the development and construction of Allkem’s Sal de Vida lithium mining project located in Catamarca, Argentina.
  • Served as counsel to the Administrative Agent in connection with a $385 million secured loan to Grupo Unicomer.
  • 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 US $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.
  • Represented the Collateral Agent in connection with a secured financing to Santiago Solar for the construction of a 115-megawatt solar plant in Chile.
  • 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 Offshore Account Bank in connection with the project financing for Mendubim’s 531 MWp portfolio of solar power plants, transmission line and associated interconnection facilities located in Brazil.
  • Represented the Indenture Trustee, U.S. Dollar Paying Agent, Registrar and Calculation Agent and acted as special New York counsel to the Foreign Currency Paying Agent in connection with Mutual of Omaha Companies Global Funding’s $5 billion Global Debt Issuance Program.
  • 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 98.1 MWac large-scale energy facility in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.
  • Served as counsel to the Collateral Agent and Depositary in connection with a $222 million financing facility for the acquisition of 230 fuel cell and solar projects located throughout the United States.
  • Served as counsel to the Trustee, Purchase Contract Agent, Collateral Agent, and Securities Intermediary in connection with South Jersey Industries’ $250 million offering of tangible equity units.
  • Served as counsel to the Purchase Contract Agent, Collateral Agent, and Securities Intermediary in connection with NiSource’s $750 million offering of 7,500,000 equity units.

Newsroom

Publication

The Only Way to Work is to Work Hard: A Conversation with Richard A. Goulding

May 3, 2023

Resident Hinckley Allen podcaster Richard A. Goulding, Partner, wants to hear your story. A proud, lifelong Massachusetts native, Rick shares his path to the law, his approach to his clients, and the advice he has for the next generation of attorneys.How d…

Publication

Corporate Deal Report 2021- By the Numbers

January 31, 2022

See how we drove significant results for clients in 2021.

See All Publications
Firm News

Hinckley Allen Continues Growth in Boston

March 3, 2022

Hinckley Allen continues to expand in Boston, with hires Chelsea A. Tryder and Cassandra T. Desjourdy, who join the Firm’s Corporate & Business and Litigation groups, respectively.Chelsea A. Tryder joins the firm as an Associate focusing on Corporate…