Energy & Natural Resources

FABREGA MOLINO has extensive experience in advising clients in the Panamanian energy market. The firm addresses a wide variety of transactional issues that include contractual, financial, planning and compliance issues. At the same time, we help with all regulatory aspects, licenses and governmental concessions, allowing us to offer our clients a true commercial and balanced legal advice.

Our Firm provides support and advice on full spectrum of Energy and Natural Resources issues across the board for oil, gas, and mineral producers, to governments and national energy companies, electric transmission companies; developers and owners of wind power and other renewable energy sources as well as companies trading electricity, natural gas, financial instruments, and emissions; and financial institutions providing capital and related services to these industries.

We have wide experience in contractual and financing aspects, planning aspects and issues derived from compliance and regulatory aspects, licenses and government concessions, which enables us to provide our clients with truly commercial and balanced legal advice.

Relevant Transactions:

• Legal advisors of Noray Desarrollo y Gestión de Recursos Hídricos, S.L. in due diligence and acquisition of a construction project and operation of “Campo Solar La Victoria” a 9.97 MW photovoltaic plant.
• Legal advisors of purchasers in the acquisition of three solar plants located in Coclé and Azuero (27,502 MW). We assisted in the negotiation and execution of transaction documents and continued to advise on regulatory, commercial and environmental matters during construction.
• Legal advisors of a foreign investment bank in the due diligence process of Panamanian LNG Power Plant project.
• Legal advisors of CLH Aviación, concessionary for the fuel dispatch in Tocumen International Airport and other regional airports. Our assistance encompasses all regulatory matters related to their operation in the Fuel Free Zone. 
• Legal advisors of the Spanish group, AVANTE, for the purchase of the majority stake  of Electron Investment, S.A., dedicated to the construction of a hydroelectric plant. The Firm conducted prior due diligence and negotiated the terms and conditions of the agreements.