Infrastructure

The experience and perspective of the firm’s Infrastructure team benefits clients in many ways:

Project Types Spanning Industry Sectors

The firm’s extensive experience with projects across infrastructure spaces (e.g., energy, civil, social) has afforded our attorneys a strong understanding of industry-centric nuances and current market trends—this helps project participants effectively plan, execute, negotiate, and protect their stake in infrastructure projects.

Alternative Projects Procurement and Delivery Structures

We have extensive experience with projects across infrastructure delivery approaches. Our attorneys have facilitated the procurement and delivery approach for public-sector clients, and they’ve shaped the same from the private sector's perspective. Alternative project delivery approaches are as varied as the projects they deliver, and major infrastructure projects require careful consideration of procurement and delivery approach, as well as planning and proper allocation of risk. Our team has experience navigating the varied and complex legal issues that arise during the procurement, negotiation, and implementation of alternative project delivery structures. Our team applies a creative approach to accomplish faster, more efficient project delivery—making possible projects that otherwise might not be. Structures we have successfully formulated and implemented include design-build, design-build-finance, design-build-finance-operate-maintain, pre-development and master developer arrangements, and other progressive transaction structures and approaches.

Experience Throughout Project Life Cycles

Our infrastructure practice spans the entire lifecycle of projects, including:

• Counseling on legislative strategy, drafting, and education assistance;
• Assisting public sector clients with project planning and structuring, as well as shaping other predevelopment activities;
• Working with public sector clients to develop multi-step procurement processes and documents appropriate to the project and in compliance with federal, state, local, and public sector entity guidelines;
• Guiding private sector developers and consortia through these procurement processes (including assistance with organizational structuring, interface agreements, navigating procurement documents, and preparing responses to solicitation documents, correspondence, and interactions);
• Drafting, negotiating, and closing of project/concession agreements, ground leases, and other documentation central to Infrastructure projects on behalf of both public- and private-sector participants.
• Navigating projects through financial structuring, approaches, and ultimately financial closing and other post-let milestones, restructurings, and servicing matters.
• Representing lenders, investors, and other equity parties at all stages of P3 projects.

Cross-Sector Expertise

With our guidance, clients are covered from every angle. Our attorneys have decades of experience and strong command of the legal, business, and technical issues that may arise on infrastructure projects. Team members are particularly adept at harmonizing technical requirements with commercial terms and implications and leveraging the firm’s considerable public and project finance capabilities to shape transactions toward financeability. We are also skilled at dispute avoidance and have significant, specific experience handling project development, administrative law, project finance (including bank financing, syndicated financing, and tax-exempt bond financing structures), construction, real estate, organizational structuring, and intellectual property matters. Our national network of offices also provides jurisdiction-specific expertise across the country.

Industry Relationships

Through decades of experience in the infrastructure space, we have developed strong relationships throughout the industry, including with government regulators within the federal government and in state and local jurisdictions throughout the country, as well as the financial, insurance, and technical advisors, financial institutions, modeling agencies, insurance and surety industries, operators, and other disciplines that facilitate these projects. We are familiar with the important players in the infrastructure space; our working relationships can help our clients achieve their goals with minimal expense and aggravation.