Karen Wong is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Project Finance Group.
Primary Focus & Experience
A partner since 1996, Ms. Wong focuses on the representation of sponsors and financing parties in connection with the development, acquisition, financing and/or restructuring of power, petrochemical and other infrastructure facilities in Asia and North America. She has extensive experience in complex commercial and financial transactions and has participated in numerous project financings, restructurings, private placements, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as leveraged and synthetic leases, municipal finance transactions, aircraft financings, and monetization transactions.
Her recent representations include advising lenders and other parties on:
- the development and financing of transactions involving satellites, telecommunications, technology companies, and real estate (including office buildings, hotels, stadiums, golf courses, amusement parks and other entertainment complexes)
- the development, financing and acquisition of transactions involving generation assets (including large scale coal, gas and LNG fired cogeneration plants, as well as hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, biomass, waste energy and other renewable energy facilities), transmission lines, and oil and gas pipelines
- the development and financing of transactions in the renewables (wind, solar and biomass), as well as several developments of coal gasification projects throughout the United States
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a mine-mouth lignite fired project in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Recognition & Accomplishments
Ms. Wong was selected as one of the Daily Journal’s “Top 25 Clean Tech Lawyers” in California and also featured as one of the state’s “Top 75 Women Lawyers”. She was also listed in the 2011 edition of Chambers USA for Projects and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and has been recommended in PLC Which Lawyer? for banking and finance.
She serves on the editorial boards of Major Tax Planning and the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal (formerly known as Computer/Law Journal).