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White and Case is a leading global law firm, uniquely positioned to assist our clients achieve their projects around the world, with lawyers in 43 offices across 30 countries.
As a pioneering international law firm, our cross-border expertise and diverse team of local, US and English-qualified lawyers consistently deliver results for our clients. In both established and emerging markets, our lawyers are integral, long-standing members of the community, giving our clients insights into the local business environment alongside our expertise in multiple jurisdictions.
We work with some of the world's most respected and well-established companies, as well as start-up visionaries, banks, governments and state-owned entities.
Allen & Overy is a global law firm that helps the world’s leading businesses to grow, innovate and thrive. For almost a century, we have built a reputation for our commitment to thinking ahead and bringing original solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and commercial challenges.
We are one of a few top-tier international law firms with dedicated private credit capability across all the major US, European and Asia-Pacific markets. We are unmatched in being able to offer our clients expert support on all stages of the lending lifecycle and across the full spectrum of private credit products – including both middle-market and large-cap senior secured financings, revenue and pre-profit deals, first loss / second loss and other super senior structures, second lien / mezzanine, holdco financings, hybrid equity solutions, NAV and other fund financings, real estate, asset finance, special situations, distressed and quasi-distressed matters.
Our clients include performing and distressed credit funds, sovereign wealth funds, bank-affiliated direct lending teams, and a wide range of other alternative capital providers.
We have a strong track record in both the middle-market and large-cap spaces. The strength of our local practices gives us a comprehensive view of the activity and latest deal terms in the markets in which we operate, as well as the challenges our clients may encounter, that few firms can match. In addition, our private credit practice benefits from being able to call on the expertise of product and sector specialists from across our network, including our market-leading syndicated leveraged finance / high yield and restructuring practices and our private equity, fund formation, real estate, infrastructure, regulatory, healthcare and tech sector teams.
Aon's M&A and Transaction Solutions is a leading M&A advisor and innovator of solutions and services that help secure investments, maximize deal value and drive transaction success by solving wide-ranging issues facing dealmakers throughout the deal lifecycle. Solutions and services include transactional insurance instruments such as warranty and indemnity insurance and tax and litigation insurance; specialized due diligence, including people and human capital, insurance, cyber and intellectual property; working capital solutions; and digital, cyber, and intellectual property transaction advisory capabilities. Working across industries and covering more than 35 countries, Aon's highly experienced teams use proprietary industry data and insights drawn from the more than 4,000 global deals supported annually.
BBVA is a global financial services group that was founded in 1857. The bank is present in more than 25 countries, has a strong leadership position in the Spanish market, is the largest financial institution in Mexico, and it has leading franchises in South America and Turkey. Additionally, BBVA has an important investment banking business in the United States.
BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking (“BBVA CIB”) brings together the activities of investment banking, markets, financing and transactional services for institutional investors and corporate clients. It has a strong global presence, providing services in 25 countries through an extensive team of experts, including investment banking specialists and advisors in specific industries and sectors. BBVA CIB offers a wide range of value-added products and financial solutions, for the simplest needs and for the most complex ones. Its mission is to help clients to carry out their projects and achieve their business, transformation and sustainability objectives, whether they are local or international.
BBVA’s Project Finance Platform offers a complete and flexible range of solutions that reaches different sectors and products, including global expertise on environment, energy and infrastructure project financing, providing customized financing solutions for strategically important, large-scale projects that meet all the needs of the companies doing business worldwide. One of BBVA’s competitive advantages is the ability to integrate international experience in structuring projects with in-depth knowledge of local markets and clients.
Leo Berwick is a transaction tax advisory firm that understands the commercial and tax issues that arise with infrastructure and renewables transactions in the United States and Canada. Founded and led by former Big 4 Tax Partners, Leo Berwick was created with the vision to provide dealmakers with practical, responsive, and commercial tax advice. We leverage decades of M&A tax experience to help a growing list of clients, including equity sponsors and institutional investors in US and Canadian infrastructure investments, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, and publicly-listed companies. We provide value-added tax due diligence, structuring, and modeling services on transactions to clients around the world.
Macquarie Capital is the advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group. It encompasses corporate advisory, a full spectrum of capital solutions, including capital raising services from equity, debt and private capital markets and principal investments from Macquarie’s balance sheet. Macquarie Capital has deep sector expertise in the aerospace, defense and government services, consumer, gaming and leisure, critical minerals, energy, financial institutions, healthcare, industrials, infrastructure, real estate, services, software, technology, telecommunications and media sectors.
Mayer Brown is a distinctively global law firm, uniquely positioned to advise the world’s leading companies and financial institutions on their most complex deals.
Our market-leading Projects & Infrastructure team brings together the collective resources of our transactional practice groups across our international firm to advise clients on all types of infrastructure transactions—from project development and finance through the purchase and sale of infrastructure assets and companies. Our team is built on the historical strengths of our Banking & Finance; Government Transactions; and Corporate & Securities practices. With more than 80 lawyers across the globe and offices in key financial centers such as New York, Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore and Tokyo, as well as the dynamic energy hubs of Houston, Dubai and Rio de Janeiro, our international presence uniquely positions us to bring new projects to fruition and to consummate infrastructure investment transactions of all types across the globe. Our clients are many of today’s major investors in infrastructure assets, including dedicated infrastructure funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutions. We also have extensive experience advising market participants in a wide variety of co-investment platforms, joint ventures and strategic alliances, advising on the structuring, formation and operation of these structures.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups.Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with around 2,700 offices in more than 50 markets. The Group has over180,000 employees, and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
MUFG aims to be the world’s most trusted financial group through close collaboration among its operating companies, and to respond to all of the financial needs of its clients, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. The firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important public and private corporations, asset managers and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance.
Winston & Strawn LLP is well regarded for its deep and broad experience working on infrastructure transactions, including several award-winning deals and projects. Our practitioners have led on many of the sector’s most complex projects, within aggressive time frames, while employing inventive solutions to help manage risk. Our clients—which include project developers and sponsors, lenders and investors, project owners and operators, governments and their agencies, and other project counterparties—consistently rely on our practitioners’ innovative thinking and deep understanding of the market standards and commercial factors that impact all aspects of infrastructure projects.
Young Professionals in Infrastructure, LLC was started in 2016 by its 6 founding members, Ashurst LLP, CIBC, Ernst & Young, John Laing, InstarAGF and Meridiam.
The mission of Young Professionals in Infrastructure (YPI) is to facilitate meaningful relationships among professionals in the infrastructure sector in order to increase knowledge transfer and best practices within the industry and encourage continued growth of alternative procurement models for the development of critical infrastructure projects in the United States.
Networking, mentoring and career development, knowledge sharing across disciplines, and advocacy of public-private partnership financing and other methods of efficient procurement of infrastructure projects, will be among the ways in which the organization will accomplish its mission.
YPI will seek to cultivate a network of current and future leaders in infrastructure development across the US with a focus on bringing together young professionals between the public and private sectors. YPI plans to hold at least two events annually, along with other more frequent, but more casual events for its members each year. These events will help facilitate opportunities for members to build collaborative and lasting relationships and to promote knowledge sharing across disciplines and organizations.
In addition to strengthening its own members through career development opportunities, YPI believes it is necessary to cultivate the future of the P3 industry by encouraging and educating the best and brightest undergraduate and graduate students interested in the infrastructure and P3 industries. By providing mentoring and career assistance to the next generation of young infrastructure professionals, YPI will help to ensure that such future professionals are better placed to drive value for the industry and our membership at an earlier stage in their careers.
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