Infrastructure
We bring extensive knowledge of infrastructure project development, financing, acquisition and procurement, plus private equity, corporate finance, M&A, restructurings and workouts, to solving our clients’ challenges collaboratively and across seamlessly across disciplines and around the world. Our sophisticated clients use many law firms for their transactions, but they routinely call on us for their most challenging and complicated infrastructure deals. In short, we know what it takes to foster innovation in project delivery (including all aspects of contractual risk allocation and financial structuring) so that our clients’ teams win bids, reach commercial and financial close, and optimize risks and rewards in implementing complex infrastructure projects.
What sets us apart from other law firms? Milbank combines deep experience in the transportation and infrastructure sectors with creativity, tenacity, and keen understanding of how to manage political and commercial risks. Our successful track record of structuring and closing first-of-their-kind infrastructure projects, including high-profile mega-projects in developed and emerging markets, is unparalleled.
We advise on the development, construction, financing of a wide range of infrastructure projects, including digital infrastructure, ports, airports, rail, toll roads, bridges, tunnels, water supply and treatment, parking, military housing, courthouses, universities, and district heating and cooling. And, of course, our deep bench is second to none handling development, financing, M&A, tax equity, private equity investments, private placements and other transactions for power and renewable energy projects and innovative new energy technologies like green hydrogen, energy storage, and carbon capture and sequestration. We also advise on ESG and sustainability issues and arbitration to resolve cross-border disputes involving energy or infrastructure investments.
Given our experience, we have become adept at handling the unique issues that arise in transactions that involve the development and financing of public-private partnerships. We routinely work across the table from public agencies and officials and have a highly-attuned sensitivity to the political nuances of public-private partnerships, including projects based on availability payments or with tolls or revenue risk. With collaboration from our Global Risk & National Security Practice, we understand the complex interplay of federal, state and local politics, both in the US and in other global markets, with innovative contractual risk allocation among the public sector, the sponsors, and lenders. And we are adept at structuring projects to benefit from tax credits and other governmental incentives.
For North America transportation and infrastructure information, contact Allan Marks; for Latin America contact Dan Bartfeld, Roland Estevez and Carolina Walther-Meade; for London contact Matthew C. Brown and Suhrud Mehta; for Germany contact Barbara Mayer-Trautmann and Markus Muhs; for Asia contact Aled Davies and Jacqueline Chan; and for digital infrastructure contact Patrick Campbell.
