Publicado em 03/01/2023 - Track Record

Dias Carneiro advises Proparco in LDC’s $40 Million Financing

Dias Carneiro (Brazil) and Clifford Chance advised Proparco – Société de Promotion Et de Participation pour la Coopération Economique, a French subsidiary development agency of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) focused on private sector development, as lender of a USD 40,000,000 facility to Louis Dreyfus Company Sucos (LDC), as Brazilian subsidiary of the Louis Dreyfus group, wich was represented by Franco Leutewiler Henriques Advogados.

The amounts borrowed will support numerous LDC projects and actions to reduce the environmental impact of its Brazilian juice operations, from water treatment and consumption optimization in the context of intensifying droughts, to energy use and emissions reductions. Dias Carneiro has also advised Proparco on the local security agreements.

LDC operates in the juice market for more than 30 years and in more than 70 countries, ranking as one of the three largest juice processors and traders in the world, as well as one of the largest orange and sicilian lemon producers.

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Dias Carneiro acted as Proparco’s local counsel and relied on partners Thiago Vallandro Flores and Gustavo Junqueira, and associates Rodrigo Murussi and Fernanda Savorelli Melhem.

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