Jorge Neher

Practice Areas

Environment and Natural Resources; Capital Markets; Energy; Mining; Mergers and Acquisitions

Career

Jorge Neher is a partner focused primarily on the areas of Oil & Gas, Mining, Electricity, Energy and Natural Resources. He is leader of the energy practice in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jorge’s Oil & Gas and Mining practice is one of the largest in Colombia and Venezuela, with more than 30 years of experience with a strong focus on Mergers and Acquisitions, cross-border projects, structuring of equity and project finance in various international markets and corporate and debt restructuring of oil & gas and mining companies. He has participated in a myriad of projects, from complex leveraged acquisitions, spin-offs, financings, restructuring, and multi-jurisdiction transactions, including privately owned and listed companies, to structuring, listing, IPOs and financing of exploration, brownfields and greenfield projects. He also has extensive experience in several countries of Latin America, such as Mexico, Ecuador, Peru and the Guyanas.

In the power sector, Jorge has advised domestic and international clients in matters concerning privatization of integrated and distribution utilities; BOOs and BOTs, project finance for IPPs, regulatory matters and others.

He has also written several articles and notes on specialized publications on the oil & gas and mining sectors.

Publications

Co-author, “Change is on the Horizon for Miners in Colombia,” Mining Law Canada Blog, February 28, 2023

Work Highlights

Oil and Gas

New Stratus Energy: Advising New Stratus energy on the acquisition of Repsol Ecuador S.A. an indirect subsidiary of the Spanish oil company Repsol S.A. and operator of the blocks 16 and 67 oil contracts with a 35% stake in the consortium, located in the Amazon region of Ecuador, one of the main private crude oil production projects in the country. Canaccord Genuity Emerging Markets Ltd.: Advising a syndicate of agents led by Canaccord Genuity and Beacon Securities in connection with the offering of convertible debentures and warrants by NG Energy International Corp. on a best efforts, fully marketed basis by way of a short form prospectus for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately CA$17.15 million.

Pentanova Energy Corp: Advising Pentanova Energy Corp. on the acquisition of oil & gas assets in Colombia and Argentina, as well as on equity financing and RTO listing in TSXV (Canada).

Mining

Aris Mining Corporation: Advising the client on its merger process with GCM Mining Corp. As a result of the merger process, Aris Gold Corporation has been renamed and will be known from now on as Aris Mining Corporation. This transaction included the direct and indirect acquisition of GCM of all of the outstanding shares of Aris Gold not currently owned by it

Aris Mining Corporation: Advising the client on the acquisition of 20% of the interest in the Soto Norte Mubadala gold project, which was headed by MDC Industry Holding Company (a Mubadala Capital fund). The project is located in Santander, Colombia. The transaction closed with the option for the buyer to acquire an additional 30% in the future.

GCM Mining Corp: Advised GCM Mining Corp. (a Canadian listed company) on a US 144A bond financing for the development of its “Toroparu” gold/copper project in Guyana. Deal value: 300 million USD.

Languages Spoken

English; Spanish

Awards

Education