Catherine McCarthy
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 4 : Project Finance
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About
Provided by Catherine McCarthy
Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
Career
Catherine McCarthy has extensive experience in power, mining, energy, telecoms, transportation and other infrastructure projects acting for clients including IFC, IDB, Citibank, Natixis, HSBC SMBC, Credit Agricole, CAF, FMO, Proparco, DEG, BNP Paribas.
Kate is one of the firm's main relationship partners in the US for both agency lenders such as IFC, IDB and IIC and commercial banks such as Citibank, HSBC and SMBC. She has significant expertise in ECA financing, having acted for lenders in deals backed by COFACE, SACE, Hermes, US Exim, K-Sure, EKF, EKN, GIEK and CESCE. She also has expertise in multilateral guarantee and insurance products including the World Bank partial risk guarantee and the MIGA sovereign non-honoring and PRI policies.
Chambers Review
Latin America
Catherine McCarthy is adept at representing development agencies and concessionaires in the financing of transport infrastructure across Latin America.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Catherine McCarthy is not only extremely knowledgeable from a technical standpoint, but she is also practical, understands the market and is an expert on various industries."
"Catherine McCarthy is not only extremely knowledgeable from a technical standpoint, but she is also practical, understands the market and is an expert on various industries."