Infralogic US P3 Forum 2022
Infralogic is pleased to announce the launch of the 18th annual US P3 Forum 2022
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ACS Infrastructure
https://www.grupoacs.com/home/Infrastructure plays a critical role in economies and communities across the globe. At ACS Infrastructure, we are global leaders in the development, financing, operations, and maintenance of infrastructure projects. We have developed more than 150 projects internationally, totaling over €52 billion of capital value, and generated equity investments of more than €2.2 billion.
As leaders in the industry, we are proud of our track record in project development; but we are equally proud of what we have accomplished, side-by-side with our clients and local partners, in delivering societal attributes of infrastructure: sustainability, inclusivity, environmental stewardship, and a focus on safety throughout the delivery and performance of our projects.
Our expertise, from having developed some of the world’s most complex concession projects and public-private partnerships (P3s), coupled with our commitment to innovation, sustainability, and good governance, allows us to ensure a best-in-class approach to future challenges.
Allen & Overy
https://www.allenovery.com/en-gb/globalAllen & 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.
Assured Guaranty
https://assuredguaranty.com/Assured Guaranty, the leading provider of U.S. municipal bond insurance and financial guarantees for essential-purpose infrastructure financings, has helped municipalities and public-private partnerships reduce the cost of financing essential public infrastructure for more than three decades, while assuring timely payment of principal and interest to investors in the bonds it guarantees. Assured Guaranty bond insurance can make P3 financings more cost-efficient because it offers investors strengthened security and the potential for greater market liquidity. Investors prize not only the unconditional and irrevocable promise of payment but also Assured Guaranty’s credit selection, underwriting, negotiated terms and surveillance.
Active in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and other developed countries, Assured Guaranty’s project finance experience spans many infrastructure sectors. Among these are roads and highways; rail transportation; electric, water and other utilities; solar energy; public and private schools and colleges; affordable housing; public buildings; prisons; seaports; airports; and stadiums.
For additional information, visit https://assuredguaranty.com/
Bank of America
https://business.bofa.com/content/boaml/en_us/home.html“What would you like the power to do?”
At Bank of America, we ask this question every day of all those we serve. It is at the core of how we live our values, deliver our purpose and achieve responsible growth. By asking this question, we continue to learn what matters most to our clients, our employees and our shareholders. It helps us start a conversation centered on our commitment to use our capabilities to help those we serve be successful. Because we recognize that we can only be successful when the individuals, companies, communities and employees we serve are able to reach their vision of success.
Fitch Ratings
https://www.fitchratings.com/Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary, and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise.
Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions, Fitch Learning and Sustainable Fitch. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.
For additional information, please visit fitchratings.com.
John Laing
http://www.laing.comJohn Laing is an international originator, active investor, and manager of infrastructure projects. John Laing has invested in more than 150 projects, including delivering major transportation, social and environmental infrastructure projects procured under public-private-partnership (P3) programs across a range of international markets including North America, the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
Some of our notable North American P3 projects include Denver Eagle (Colorado), I-77 HOT Lanes (North Carolina), Transform 66 (Virginia), I-75 (Michigan), MBTA Automated Fare Collection (Massachusetts), I-4 Ultimate (Florida) and Hurontario LRT (Ontario).
Kiewit
http://kiewit.comAs a construction and engineering leader, Kiewit — through its operating companies — brings a wealth of diverse resources and a track record for delivering the highest quality results on budget and on schedule. Kiewit’s size and experience provides the stability, predictability and know-how our clients and partners expect — and the flexibility and overall best value they deserve.
Kiewit Development is the development, investment, and asset management arm of Kiewit. Formed in 2009, Kiewit Development supports Kiewit’s design and construction activities through the development, equity investment, structuring, bidding, and executing work with US and Canadian P3 and alternative procurement agencies. Kiewit Development has one of the largest P3 development teams dedicated to the North American market, staffed with over 25 project management, development, investment, finance and asset management professionals, who have previously worked on transactions spanning all asset classes.
Macquarie
https://www.macquarie.com/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, services, software, technology, telecommunications and media sectors. In the year ending 31 March 2022, Macquarie Capital advised on $US338 billion of transactions.
For further information, visit www.macquarie.com.
Moody’s Investors Service (MIS)
https://www.moodys.com/Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) is a leading global provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. A rating from Moody’s enables issuers to create timely, go-to-market debt strategies with the ability to capture wider investor focus and provides investors with a comprehensive view of global debt markets through our credit ratings and research. Moody’s trusted insights can help decision-makers navigate the safest path through turmoil and market volatility.
Norton Rose Fulbright
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/enNorton Rose Fulbright is a global legal practice. We provide the world’s pre-eminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,700 lawyers based in 57 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; transport; technology; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.
Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc. and
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, each of which is a separate legal entity, are members (‘the Norton Rose Fulbright members’) of Norton Rose
Fulbright Verein, a Swiss Verein. Norton Rose Fulbright Verein helps coordinate the activities of the Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients.
Orrick
https://www.orrick.com/Orrick is a leading global law firm focused on the Tech, Energy & Infrastructure, and Finance sectors. Our E&I transactional, litigation and regulatory lawyers advise on some of the most high-profile infrastructure modernization projects that propel communities across the globe and on revolutionary projects in the energy transition and energy technology space. We offer deep sector knowledge and creativity to help our clients achieve their business objectives in the areas of P3, project development and finance, complex acquisitions, dispositions and private equity investments, restructurings, dispute resolution, regulatory and proactive compliance across the energy and infrastructure spectrum.
SMBC
https://www.smbcgroup.com/SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group headquartered in Tokyo. With a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. SMBC Group has more than 140 offices and 86,000 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 June 30, 2022, its total assets were $1.97 trillion.
In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by its capital strength and the value of its relationships in Asia, SMBC 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. SMBC Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities Canada, Ltd., 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. For more information, please visit www.smbcgroup.com.
Winston & Strawn
https://www.winston.com/en/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.