Andrés Ramón Rodríguez-Gómez

With more than 12 years, Andrés Ramón’s practice includes representing developers of and investors and lenders to infrastructure and other energy-related projects, including O&G, mining, solar, wind, hydrogen, and pipeline projects. Aside from Colombia, he has experience in the United States and Latin America. He represents both sellers and purchasers of ownership interests in power projects and energy related facilities.

Recently, he has focused his practice in the development of projects associated with clean energies, highlighting hydrogen projects, as solar and windfarms. However, his experience in the energy sector covers M&A transactions (Advent-Ocensa, Ecopetrol-ISA), Project Finance (Oleoducto Bicentenario de Colombia, KGHM in Chile), joint ventures (Ecopetrol – OXY, in the US, Hydrogen Projects in Colombia), advising various national and international companies in the negotiation of different commercial and infrastructure agreements; and international litigation (Reficar vs. CB&I ).

• Represented Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), the leading oil Company in Colombia, in the purchase of 51,4% shares of Interconexión Eléctrica ISA (the largest electric energy supplier on Colombia and with presence in several Latin American countries) through the execution of an inter-administrative share purchase agreement with the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in Colombia. This was the largest transaction in Colombia for 2021 for an amount of COP 14,236,814,025,000 (approximately USD 3.6 billion) The acquisition was nominated to the Latin Lawyer's M&A Deal of the Year Award (2021).

• Represented Ecopetrol S.A. in the incorporation of two trading companies, in Singapore, and in the US.

• Represented Ecopetrol S.A. (NYSE: EC) in the negotiation together with Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) a joint venture for the development of unconventional fields in approximately 97,000 acres of the Permian Basin in the State of Texas, USA.

• Represented Ecopetrol S.A. (NYSE: EC) , in the sale of 50% of Ecopetrol's shareholding in the OIG Group.

• Represented EPM in the $1B financing of the construction of the Ituango Hydroelectric Project in Medellín, Colombia. Financing provided by IIC, IDB and China Co-financing Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean. This project was nominated for LatinFinance’s 2019 "Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards"

• Represented a group of investors led by Advent International Corporation in the acquisition of approximately 22% of the shares of Oleoducto Central S.A. Ocensa is the operator of the largest oil pipeline in Colombia.

• Represented a Koch Companies’ affiliate in the development of an infrastructure project at the Cartagena Refinery.

• Represented different commodity traders in the negotiation of contracts for the purchase, sale and transportation of oil and byproducts, in Colombia.