Jeffrey N. Susskind

Jeﬀrey N. Susskind Special Counsel

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Jeffery N. Susskind is Special Counsel in the São Paulo office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group.

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Susskind specializes in banking and finance, projects and project bonds. His experience focuses principally on syndicated loans and debt offerings in the infrastructure sector, as well as acquisition finance, structured finance, export prepayment structures and debt restructurings.

Mr. Susskind’s relevant experience prior to joining Milbank includes advising:

the arranger on the financing of the acquisition and development of the Sao Paulo Metro Line 6 by a concessionaire sponsored by Acciona Goldman Sachs, as initial purchaser and sole coordinator and bookrunner in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg S $350 million notes issuance maturing in 2031 as well as a Brazilian debenture bridge financing to refinance existing notes issued by Prumo Participações e Investimentos S.A. and secured by, among other things, shares of, and rights to distributions and intercompany loan payments from, Ferroport Logística Comercial Exportadora S.A. Morgan Stanley, UBS and Bradesco BBI as initial purchasers on a Rule 144A and Reg S $200 million senior secured notes issuance for the Brazilian petrochemical company Unigel Participações S.A. The notes were secured by assets of its subsidiaries UBS on the long-term financing for the Corredor Bioceanico toll road project in Paraguay, which was structured as a committed facility by an offshore SPV for the purchase of the receivables as they vest under the construction contract, and the securitization of such receivables through a fully underwritten international bond offering, this transaction was named “Bond of the Year” by Latin Finance Corredores Viales Nacionales A, B, C, E, F and Sur, Argentina: the arrangers in the financings for the construction of all six toll roads awarded by Argentina the Concessionaire (Metro de Lima Linea 2 S.A.) and its six shareholders Iridium, Salini Impregilo, Hitachi Rail, Hitachi Rail STS, FCC and Cosapi in the $563.2 securitization of Peruvian government receivables (RPI-CAOs) to finance the design, construction, operation, maintenance, electromechanical equipping, systems equipping and supply of rolling stock for Line 2 of the Lima and Callao Metro system, this transaction was named “Structured Finance Deal of the Year” by Latin Finance BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan, Mizuho and Rabobank on an acquisition financing in the total amount of $9.2 billion, comprising a bridge loan facility and an export prepayment facility, provided to Suzano Papel e Celulose for the $11 billion acquisition of Fibria to create the world's largest pulp producer; this transaction was named “Trade Financing of the Year” by Latin Finance Suzano Pulp and Paper Europe S.A. as the borrower in connection with a $750 million syndicated export prepayment term loan facility agreement involving ten lenders Banco do Brasil, ItauBBA, Santander (Brasil), Bradesco and Banco Indusval on a debt restructuring of four syndicated export prepayment facilities and six bilateral loan facilities, in the total amount of $235 million and secured by Brazilian assets, to the Unigel Group, a petrochemical and plastics company, that was part of a broader corporate restructuring involving the issuance of local debentures and the sale of a principal subsidiary to an investment fund eight international and Brazilian banks in connection with the restructuring of approximately $143 million of pre-export loans of Grupo Borrachas Vipal S.A., a leading global manufacturer of tire and inner tube retread and repair products

Recognition & Accomplishments

Prior to joining Milbank, Mr. Susskind spent many years practicing law at a “Magic Circle” law firm in its São Paulo office and previously served as senior counsel to BankBoston/Bank of America in São Paulo. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and an LL.B. from the University of São Paulo Faculdade de Direito. Mr. Susskind is fluent in English and Portuguese and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

EDUCATION Brooklyn Law School, J.D. University of São Paulo Faculty of Law, LL.B.

ADMISSIONS New York

EXPERIENCE

Latin America Project Finance Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance

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