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							                             INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROJECT                                        AREAS OF FOCUS
                             FINANCE                                                           Capital markets and bank debt
                                                                                               structures
                                                                                               Concessions
                                                                                               Construction and Engineering
                                                                                               (EPC, EPCM, D&B,
                                                                                               Design/Consultancy)
                                                                                               Industry standards
                                                                                               (FIDIC/NEC/JCT)
Hogan Lovells Infrastructure and Project Finance practice is one of the largest and most       Infrastructure funds
                                                                                               Leasing
diverse in the world. Our international network of highly experienced lawyers operates in
                                                                                               Mergers and acquisitions
all key markets. We regularly represent financial institutions, project sponsors, investors,   Outsourcing
contractors, private equity funds, governments and parastatal bodies, international            Partnering
financial institutions, and export credit agencies on some of the world’s largest and most     Private Finance Initiatives
                                                                                               (PFI)
challenging projects in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the
                                                                                               Privatization
United States.                                                                                 Project Finance
                                                                                               Public Private Partnerships
                                                                                               (PPP)
We are among the few law firms to offer a truly global practice. Our lawyers draw on
                                                                                               Refinancings and
more than 30 years of industry-focused experience, operating at the forefront of market        restructurings
trends and advising on projects in numerous industry sectors, including:                       Secondary markets and
                                                                                               trading

   airports

   defense

   education

   energy and power (including renewable energy)

   healthcare

   light rail and urban transport

   mining

   oil and gas

   petrochemicals

   ports

   prisons and secure accommodation

   process plants

   roads

   sanitation
   satellites

   social infrastructure

   technology

   telecommunications

   transportation (including air and surface transportation)

   waste and energy from waste

   water and desalination.



We strive to partner with our clients to develop their most significant infrastructure
projects. In addition to having the commitment and loyalty of a dedicated team, clients
have full access to Hogan Lovells broader capabilities in our corporate, capital markets,
mergers and acquisitions, tax, real estate, government affairs, regulatory, environmental,
and international trade practices.




Representative Clients


   AES Corporation

   Babcock & Brown

   Barclays Bank

   Bank of Ireland

   Bechtel

   Bouygues

   FPL Energy

   Fomento de Construcciones Y Contratas (FCC)

   HSBC Infrastructure Company

   Iberdrola

   Innisfree

   Jet Airways

   Keppel Seghers

   Macquarie

   Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

   Petrobras
   PDVSA

   Pemex Petroquímica

   Prudential M&G

   Royal Bank of Scotland

   Serco

   Sinopec

   Sithe Global

   Thales

   Veolia Environnement

   Vinci


Awards and Rankings


   "This team is singled out for its expertise in international infrastructure and project
    finance." Chambers Global, 2010: Europe-wide: Projects and Energy

   "Clients praise the firm for its responsiveness and its flexible approach to a
    relationship." IFLR 1000, 2010: Western Europe

   "[Hogan Lovells] has maintained its healthy market reputation for international
    infrastructure work." Chambers UK, 2010: International Infrastructure

   "Their lawyers are the easiest to work with bar none." Legal 500, 2009

   "[Hogan Lovells] retains a leading position in healthcare, heavy and light rail, waste
    and secondary markets, and a strong presence in wider transport, schools and
    social infrastructure, and accommodation." Chambers UK, 2010: PFI/PPP

   "[A] strong domestic team [that] worked on some excellent deals last year." IFLR
    1000, 2010: Western Europe

   "This team has been handling a broad range of infrastructure work in a variety of
    locations and is warmly praised by its peers." Chambers UK, 2009: Projects and
    Energy: International Infrastructure

   "They're clever, skilled lawyers." Chambers Europe, 2009


Related Experience

   Advising Infracapital Partners LP on the acquisition and refinancing of Kelda
    Water plc, the largest acquisition to complete in the United Kingdom in 2008

   Advising Keppel Seghers on the £3.8bn financing of Europe's largest waste
    contract, Greater Manchester Waste PFI

   Advising Tube Lines and its shareholders (Bechtel, Amey, and Jarvis) on the £1.8bn
    London Underground PPP project and the subsequent £2.1bn capital markets
    refinancing

   Advising Land Securities Trillium Ltd on the launch of landmark £1.15bn
    infrastructure investment vehicle Trillium PPP Fund

   Advising Trillium Consortium, Barclays Bank plc, and SMBC, as Mandated Lead
    Arrangers, on the £600m Kent Building Schools for the Future (BSF) program

   Advising Bank of Ireland and Barclays Capital as funders to the £570m Riverside
    energy from waste (EfW) project in London

   Advising EIB, AfDB, Proparco/AFD, and Islamic Development Bank on the
    financing of the RascomStar pan-African satellite project

   Advising Progress Health (Macquarie Bank Limited and Multiplex) on the £446m
    Peterborough Hospitals PFI project, a bond-financed PFI project in the United
    Kingdom

   Advising a subsidiary of Lafarge on the project financing relating to the
    development of a US$682m cement plant in northern Syria

   Advising on French rail PPP projects, including the South Atlantic High Speed
    Liaison (HSL), the Nimes-Montpellier HSL, Lyon Turin HSL, and the Charles de
    Gaulle Airport Express Line

   Advising the financing banks with UBS and NIBC as Mandated Lead Arrangers on
    the CHF150m Zeughausareal Burgdorf PPP Project in Switzerland

   Advising SembCorp Utilities Pte Ltd on the construction, financing, and development
    of the US$1bn Salalah independent water and power project (IWPP) in Oman

   Advising China Development Bank Corporation and China Export and Credit
    Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) on its US$1bn project financing of a 600MW
    power plant on Luzon Island, Philippines

   Advising NextEra Energy Resources on its US$340m portfolio project financing
    of two wind projects in Iowa and North Dakota

   Advising Petroquímica de Venezuela (Pequiven), the Venezuelan state-owned
    petrochemical entity, in the development and negotiation of project agreements
    for joint ventures (public-private partnerships) of a world-scale olefins project in
    Venezuela with one of the world’s leading energy companies

   Advising the Government of Liberia on its development of 35MW biomass
    generation facility in Liberia, the first such independent power project in the
    country

   Advising Metanol de Oriente METOR S.A. on its US$334m project financing of
    methanol production plant expansion

   Advising a multinational energy project management company with respect to the
    project development of approximately 3,000MW of hydro, wind, and thermal
    electric generation projects in Turkey for a multinational energy company