Infrastructure and Water

Global Experience. Global Recognition.

Milbank's infrastructure lawyers facilitate the development, construction, and financing of numerous projects, including roads, highways, bridges, rail systems, airports, ports, water and wastewater systems, hospitals and military housing facilities, among others. We have successfully represented all of the leading players in the infrastructure sector in high-profile projects in a broad range of industries and geographic locations. Many of our infrastructure transactions are first-of-their-kind, complex deals executed in jurisdictions that pose unique legal challenges for clients and project participants. Our infrastructure clients include public and private project sponsors, equity funds, banks, underwriters, institutional investors, government agencies and international organizations.

We are consistently ranked as one of the top law firms in the infrastructure industry by Chambers and Partners.  Industry publications have named a number of our infrastructure deals as “Deal of the Year” transactions, including the Port of Miami Access Tunnel, Pocahontas Parkway, Chicago Skyway and SR 125 (South Bay Expressway) in the US, the Santiago International Airport and Autopista Central toll road in Chile and Monterrey-Cadereyta toll road in Mexico. We have represented bidders and lenders in a wide variety of transactions in the infrastructure sector in the United States, including toll roads (Pennsylvania and Indiana Toll Roads), airports (Midway), rail (Denver FasTracks) and ports (P&O, Orient Overseas and Maher), as well as in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Australia, China, Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom and the Middle East.

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PPP projects

Our Infrastructure attorneys have significant experience in public-private partnership transactions worldwide. We are adept at handling the unique issues that arise when private sector investors and governments come together on PPP projects. We have represented lenders financing PPP projects, as well as government entities and sponsors, and have established credibility and trust on all sides of the table.

massive acquisitions

Increasingly, our Infrastructure attorneys represent participants in massive acquisitions.  This trend is spreading rapidly on a global basis as private investment funds compete aggressively to acquire ownership interest in government-controlled infrastructure projects.

Integrated team approach

Success in providing the highest quality legal services in complex, cutting-edge deals is dependent upon the effective combination of expertise across an array of legal disciplines. We ensure that each of our partners and senior lawyers is well-versed in several of the disciplines key to the infrastructure industry and staff all of our transactions with a small core team that is strong across all relevant disciplines. Our Infrastructure Practice brings together in a single team Corporate, M&A, Financing, Tax, and transaction-structuring lawyers with infrastructure specific expertise. This true integration across practice groups and worldwide offices is the hallmark of our practice and allows us to be a dynamic problem-solving component of a client’s team.