Standard Poaches Brazil PF Team

Standard Bank has hired a team of six project financiers from ABN AMRO in Brazil, led by Guilherme Alice. The team will focus on the same kinds of projects it did at ABN, Alice tells LatinFinance – including power, oil and gas, biofuels and infrastructure. At ABN the group arranged Brazilian deals including a $105m financing for Abengoa’s ATE III transmission project. Standard’s pipeline includes financing a 270MW wind generation portfolio in Brazil’s northeast, Alice says, declining to elaborate on details. The other members of his team are Rodolfo Valente, Fabio Kono, Lucas Martinelli, Fabio Souza and Wilson Chen. The team reports to Fabio Solferini, CEO of Standard’s Brazil operations and to Jonathan Wood, global head of project finance.