The Project Finance, Energy and Infrastructure Group has been providing legal advice and assistance in connection with the structuring, financing and implementation of complex foreign and domestic energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, natural resources, environmental and industrial projects and transactions for more than 30 years.

The Group has acted as legal counsel in projects located in Asia and the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean Basin, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America as well as throughout the United States. These projects have involved project and limited recourse financing and other asset-based financing techniques, such as leveraged leases, BOO/BOT and securitization structures. Our attorneys have represented sponsors, lenders, lessors, equity investors, financial advisors and foreign sovereigns in these matters.

In both domestic and international projects, we believe that the client is best served when one firm acts as primary counsel for the transaction and assists in the selection and retention of either foreign counsel or local counsel if necessary. We regularly take the lead role in structuring and planning a transaction, including the design of the legal structure and the drafting of all documentation.

In international transactions, we ensure that the applicable foreign law provides the expected rights and benefits to the client consistent with its objectives in the transaction. We have also worked with foreign counsel to create entirely new applications of existing local law to achieve this goal. As a result, we have been successful in "exporting" legal technology by taking legal, financial and tax concepts prevailing in the United States and applying them under foreign law.

For further information about Kelley Drye's Project Finance practice group, please contact:

Stephen W. Stein
(212) 808-7794
sstein@kelleydrye.com