Paulina Sosa

Paulina is an associate in the Energy & Infrastructure practice. Paulina has experience advising on a variety of cross-border project financings, representing project sponsors, lender groups, and export-credit agencies throughout the world, and has particular experience with project finance for renewable energy projects. Paulina is fluent in Spanish.

Paulina is strongly committed to pro bono service and international affairs, particularly immigration and human rights. Paulina has represented asylum seekers, immigrants in deportation proceedings, women and children fleeing violence, and acted as guardian ad litem for children in the midst of custody proceedings before the D.C. Superior Court.

Work highlights

Relevant matters on which Paulina has advised include:

• Norte II Project: advising the sponsors on the refinancing of a power plant and ancillary facilities in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico
• Kelar: advising Samsung C&T Corporation and Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd. in the equity bridge and senior secured credit facilities to finance the development and construction of the Kelar gas-fired combined power plant in the Mejillones region of Chile
• Cabo Leones 1: advising EDF Energies Nouvelles S.A. and Ibereólica Renovables on the project financing, as well as the subsequent US$450m refinancing and expansion
• Solar projects financing: advising C2 WM DSA Sponsor, LLC and C2 Energy Capital LLC, an equity fund focused on solar asset development and operation and a repeat client of the firm, in connection with structuring permanent financing from City National Bank for a portfolio of photovoltaic solar projects to be constructed across the United States
• Wind farm and Hydroelectric power plants in Chile: advised a Chilean sponsor and its Chinese shareholders in the refinancing of a wind farm and several hydroelectric power plants held by a number of project companies.

Paulina was a member of Columbia Law School’s Immigrant Rights Clinic, an extern at the International Affairs section of the General Counsel’s Office for the U.S. Secretary of Defense, an intern for Immigrant Justice Corps, an intern at Church World Service, and the Design and Layout editor for Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems.

She previously worked for an immigration law firm in Bethesda, MD where she assisted on cases before INTERPOL, Inter-American Committee of Human Rights, and U.S. consulates.

Paulina holds a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was Harlan Fisk Stone scholar and received the Parker School Recognition of Achievement in International and Comparative Law. Her article “The Regulatory Leach of the One-year Refugee Travel Document” was published in the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems in 2019.

Paulina graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University, where she double majored in Arabic and Political Economy.