Diego Hernandez Schmidt-Tophoff

Chief Counsel ECA LNG/Energia Costa Azul

Sempra Infrastructure Partners, LP

Diego serves as Chief Counsel for the ECA LNG Projects. In such endeavors, Diego is currently leading the legal efforts on the ongoing development of the ECA LNG Projects. In such role Diego’s activities include general coordination, implementation, negotiation, and monitoring of legal matters related to such ECA LNG projects in order to successfully achieve the business units’ objectives.

Prior to joining the Sempra family, Diego spent +10 years in “Big Law” in US (Ny and Texas) and Mexico; and his practice focused mainly on representing sponsors, multilateral and bilateral agencies, commercial bank lenders, and project developers in cross border and domestic project financings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, tax equity financing and structured finance transactions, across several energy sub-sectors including, renewable projects, LNG, geothermal and fuel cell storage.