项目和基础设施融资

Around the world, Squire Sanders lawyers have worked closely with clients on large projects requiring extensive experience in structuring and negotiating project financing, including analyzing, preparing, and negotiating all related documentation, including commitment letters, loan agreements, security documentation, trust agreements, and other finance-related documentation. We have experience working with the leading financial advisors, commercial banks, investment banks, export credit agencies, and multilateral financial institutions and bring that to bear when serving as legal counsel.

Squire Sanders lawyers have assisted private entities and governmental bodies in planning, financing, and implementing infrastructure projects including airports, ports, railways, roadways and mass transit systems, communications, health care, education and privatization. Our lawyers have also been involved in project financing aspects of energy projects, professional sports stadiums, museums, urban development projects, waterfront development and marina projects, port projects, housing projects, manufacturing facilities and mixed use entertainment/retail facilities.

法律事业组擅长的范畴

• 基础设施融资
• 机场和交通运输
• 能源
• 运动休闲设施
• 酒店和会议中心

代表性执业经验

• Serving as underwriters' counsel in connection with the issuance by Palm Beach County, Florida of US$69.1 million of airport system revenue bonds to finance airport improvements and the concurrent issuance of US$16.9 million of taxable airport system revenue refunding bonds to advance refund and defease a portion of a prior bond issue.
• Representing FPL Energy (now NextEra Energy Resources, LLC) in a US$206 million project financing for two wind facilities aggregating 196.5 MW of capacity.
• Serving as underwriters' counsel to an investment bank on a US$337 million bond issue for a new sports and entertainment arena in Louisville, Kentucky. The project, with a total value of US$447 million, includes 717,000 square feet of new construction. The seven-story arena will have a 22,000 seat capacity for basketball, and a capacity of between 16,000 and 17,500 for concerts and entertainment events.
• Advising an international real property investment firm on the acquisition of land and buildings and transactions relating to further development for various types of projects including hotel, residential, office space and conference centers.
• Serving as part of a consortium advising Georgia's government and the World Bank on a road/tunnel project that will be the first PPP in that country and helping to write a PPP statute for the republic.
• Representing the underwriter in connection with the issuance by the Regional Airports Improvement Corporation of US$29.6 Facilities Lease Refunding Revenue Bonds. The conduit bonds were issued to refinance and finance completion of fuel filtration, storage, pumping and transfer facilities and measurement and control systems located at Los Angeles International Airport and owned by LAXFUEL Corporation, a California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation whose members are the principal air carriers operating at LAX.
• Serving as swap counsel for Bradley International Airport (state of Connecticut) in connection with the execution of a long-dated forward delivery interest rate swap that allowed the state to lock in interest rate savings for bonds that cannot be refunded until 2011.
• Counseling in all the legal issues related to the development by AES of a 300 MW natural gas-fired generation facility and LNG importation and distribution terminal. This representation included legal assistance in: (i) negotiation and drafting of the real estate purchase agreement for the site; (ii) negotiation of the generation concession and obtaining all permits required for development and operation of the facility; (iii) negotiation and drafting of all EPC agreements with the different contractors; (iv) securing of all easements and rights of way required for construction of the transmission lines interconnecting the generation facility with the national transmission grid, as well as for development of the natural gas pipeline that brings gas from the importation terminal to another generation facility in Santo Domingo; and (v) financing of the project with international lenders.
• Advising EBRD/Galnaftogaz in its US$25 million loan to a Ukrainian oil refining company for the purpose of expanding its filling station network.
• Representing the owner of the Phoenix Coyotes National Hockey League team in negotiations with the city of Glendale, Arizona for the development, financing, construction, leasing and operation of a new 17,500-seat multipurpose sports and entertainment center and the surrounding 225-acre site. We negotiated and drafted the arena development agreement on behalf of the developer; the arena management, use and lease agreement on behalf of the team and arena manager; and the mixed use development agreement on behalf of the developers of the 3 million to 5 million sq. ft. of commercial, retail and residential projects surrounding the arena. The total development cost for these projects was projected as more than US$750 million. The city of Glendale agreed to contribute US$180 million to the arena project.