Natixis

Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset & wealth management, corporate & investment banking, insurance and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, Natixis counts over 16,000 employees across 36 countries. Its clients include corporations, financial institutions, sovereign and supranational organizations, and the customers of Groupe BPCE’s networks.

White & Case

https://www.whitecase.com/

White & Case is a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many. We guide our clients through difficult issues, bringing our insight and judgment to each situation. We take an innovative approach to create original solutions to our clients’ most complex domestic and multijurisdictional deals and disputes. We think on behalf of our clients every week and every day, anticipating what they want, providing what they need and building lasting relationships. We do what it takes to help our clients achieve their ambitions

White & Case is a leader in the acquisition, divestiture, development and financing of infrastructure assets across the Americas and across the World. Our top-tier team has unmatched experience on assets across all major industry sectors including oil and gas and midstream, large-scale power and gas transmission, renewables, water and wastewater, rail, airport, roadway, bridge, port and social infrastructure. In the past two years, 1,500+ lawyers from 40 offices worked on 800+ new infrastructure deals worth more than US$250 billion in total deal value and received 20+ Infrastructure Deal of the Year awards.

Allen & Overy

As governments continue to embark on infrastructure asset capital building and/or recycling programs and private participants seek to both exit and enter the asset class, we continue to see increasing opportunities for infrastructure investors. Our global reach, sector expertise and local knowledge ensure we can assist quickly in assessing and advising on transactions across the lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Allen & Overy’s dedicated Global Infrastructure Group has been at the forefront of this expanding market, advising key stakeholders, including dedicated infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, government agencies and debt providers across all key sectors. Our experience, gained from advising on some of the most high-profile and strategic infrastructure deals in the market, enables us to provide expert support to clients on complex transactions in a challenging economic and regulatory climate.

We view infrastructure assets in the same way as our clients. We take a cross-disciplinary approach and provide the legal solutions needed on any infrastructure investment or activity. We cover the full asset life cycle from creation to acquisition, the raising of sponsor or debt capital to ongoing portfolio management, restructurings and asset sales, as well as exit strategies. Our experts are able to identify quickly any obstacle or risks to a deal and provide innovative commercial solutions. In addition, our team has been involved in many complex “market first” transactions, demonstrating extensive strength and depth.

To support our clients’ international strategies, we have built a truly global network now spanning 44 offices in 31 countries. We have also developed strong ties with relationship law firms in over 100 countries where we do not have a presence. This network makes us one of the largest and most connected law firms in the world, with a global reach and local depth that is simply unrivalled.

Mayer Brown

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 and disputes.

With extensive reach across four continents, we are the only integrated law firm in the world with approximately 200 lawyers in each of the world’s three largest financial centers—New York, London and Hong Kong—the backbone of the global economy.

We have deep experience in high-stakes litigation and complex transactions across industry sectors, including our signature strength, the global financial services industry.

Our diverse teams of lawyers are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

Our “one-firm” culture—seamless and integrated across all practices and regions—ensures that our clients receive the best of our knowledge and experience. 

MUFG

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.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham's Energy & Infrastructure Industry Group provides a globally integrated multi-disciplinary powerhouse team to serve global players across a full spectrum of the energy and infrastructure market. We can handle any energy or infrastructure related project, investment, transaction, dispute, or regulatory issue. Drawing on the synergies between our market-leading Oil & Gas, Power, Renewables, Infrastructure, and ESG Practices, we build teams that share experience and best practices across industries in forward-looking, innovative ways. With a seasoned understanding of market disruptors, major economic fluctuations, and dynamic regulatory environments, we are remarkable well-positioned to help clients prepare for the opportunities and challenges arising from the global transition to low carbon energy.

SMBC

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 85,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges. As of December 31, 2020, its total assets were $2.25 trillion.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Winston & Strawn

Winston & Strawn (Winston) is an international law firm with 900 attorneys in 15 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC. Throughout its more than 160 years of history, Winston has served as a trusted adviser and advocate to companies around the world and built a law practice with tremendous breadth.

With lawyers who “offer great insight, strategy and industry awareness, along with a pragmatic perspective,” the firm’s global M&A practice has handled transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity for public and private companies, representing an exceptionally diverse base of clients, including buyers, sellers, and funding sources. Our experience includes significant and high-profile transactions in a broad range of industries including automotive, consumer products, energy & infrastructure, financial services & banking, health care & life sciences, media & entertainment, pharmaceuticals & medical devices, and technology, new media & telecommunications (TNT).