One of the cornerstones of our global project finance practice is the ability to represent clients in transactions governed by either New York or English law, which are usually the laws of choice for the documentation in international project finance transactions. In the US we are able to offer clients the benefits of both US- and UK-qualified lawyers working together in our offices, as well as the benefits of access to our worldwide team of over 150 project finance lawyers.

Innovation and creativity are essential attributes of today's project finance lawyer. As the project finance market matures, sponsors and financiers are seeking ever more complex and sophisticated ways to develop and finance projects. We are at the center of this innovation and development. We are active in a number of cutting edge areas, including the creation of investment funds where debt and equity are invested in project financings, leasing and securitization of project-related revenues, as well as project bond work.

Our US project finance team represents commercial banks, institutional lenders, international financial institutions, export credit agencies, underwriters, governmental agencies, project sponsors and other investors on projects across industry sectors around the world. Senior partners in this group are all recognized as leading project finance lawyers.

Recent experience includes advising:

  • seven export credit agencies, Coface, ECGD, Hermes, JBIC, NEXI, SACE and Export-Import Bank of the United States, on the $3.5bn financing of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline designed to transport crude oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean;
  • WestLB, as bank lender and institutional investor, on the $395m senior secured financing of the 1.7m ton per year Atlas Methanol production facility in Trinidad and Tobago;
  • Tractebel Power, as project sponsor, on its $100m debt financing of a 334MW power plant in Ennis, Texas;
  • Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association on the $100m financing of the construction of a 100m gallon per year ethanol processing facility in South Dakota;
  • the Global Environment Fund and Poseidon Resources, as sponsors, on the organization of the Atlantis Fund, an equity fund created to invest in water projects around the world;
  • International Finance Corporation on the limited recourse financing of two electricity transmission lines and six substations in Peru;
  • the institutional investors on their investments in a $900m multi-tranche senior debt facility for the financing of the Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados project, a new blended stream heavy crude oil pipeline system in Ecuador; and
  • Overseas Private Investment Corporation on a $250m crude oil receivables financing in Argentina.

More information on Freshfields' global project finance practice.

For more information please contact Kent Rowey, Head of Energy and Infrastructure Americas or Chelsea Friend, Chief Marketing Officer.

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