Simpson Thacher advised on two loans to Colombian food company Grupo Nutresa totaling $1.5 billion. Here an employee at Nutresa unit Zenu. (Photo: Grupo Nutresa)
Juan Francisco Mendez, Simpson Thacher; Carlos Albarracín, Milbank and Kira Idoko, Gibson Dunn. (Latinvex collage)
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Milbank, Simpson Advise $2.7 Bln Colombia Finance Work
Gibson Dunn advises $1.2 billion fundraising for BTG Pactual Timberland.
BY LATINVEX STAFF
Simpson Thacher advised on two loans to Colombian food company Grupo Nutresa totaling $1.5 billion; Milbank advised the lenders in connection with the $1.25 billion senior unsecured term loan facility for Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol and Gibson Dunn advised BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, one of the world’s largest timberland managers, on the close of fundraising for its Latin American Reforestation Strategy, reaching $1.24 billion in commitments — the largest reforestation fund closed to date.
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