Dino Barajas

Practice Areas

Finance; Projects, Energy and Infrastructure; Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Disputes; Energy and Natural Resources

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Career

Dino Barajas is Chair of the firm's Project Finance Practice Group (firm-wide).

He focuses his practice on domestic and international project development and finance, with emphasis on US, Latin American and Caribbean infrastructure projects, debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents lenders, investors and developers in a wide range of domestic and international project financings in the energy, power, infrastructure and commercial sectors, as well as in traditional banking, structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, asset finance, joint ventures and venture capital transactions.

Dino's clients include commercial lenders, institutional investors, investment funds, project sponsors, and public and private companies. He has worked on transactions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Yemen and elsewhere.

Dino has spearheaded several large project finance projects throughout the US, Latin America and the Caribbean and has accumulated numerous individual accolades and Deals of the Year throughout his career.

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Personal

Harvard Law School, J.D.

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), B.A. in Communications Studies

Awarded the Outstanding Graduating Senior Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award

Member of the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society

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Professional Memberships

UCLA Department of Social Sciences, Member of Board of Advisors to Dean Hunt

Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, Member of Emeritus Board