LAP Latin American Partners LLC is a private equity and venture debt firm specializing in middle market, mezzanine, and Growth Capital Opportunities, Buyouts investments. The firm typically invests in infrastructure or growth companies. It also invests in all sectors specially in energy generation, transmission, distribution, renewable and alternative energy and energy efficiency projects; transportation including toll roads, railroads, airlines, shipping, ports and airports; water and sanitation; telecommunication; and other sectors, including industrial parks and facilities, alternative fuels, agribusiness, natural resources offshore, fuels, chemicals, biochemical, mining, oil and gas, and forestry, health and education, tourism, housing and real estate, electric power, petrochemicals, infrastructure, and mining. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the Latin America and the Caribbean region with a focus on Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia region. It seeks to invest between $10 million and $25 million and takes a board seat in its portfolio companies. Latin American Partners, formerly known as EMP Latin American Management LLC, was founded in 2009 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia with additional offices in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Mexico City, Mexico. LAP Latin American Partners LLC operates as a subsidiary of EMP Global LLC