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The Infrastructure team at Vinson & Elkins has experience in structuring and development financing of concession-based projects, public-private partnerships (PPP), and in acquisitions, disposals, and privatizations of infrastructure portfolio assets and projects throughout the world. Our clients include buy-side and sell-side entities, sponsors, equity investors, financiers, contractors, and public sector participants who benefit from our experience, including in connection with complex regulatory requirements and the UK’s PPP model, both in the UK and as it has been applied in jurisdictions around the world.

V&E lawyers provide a comprehensive service to clients on all phases of such acquisitions and projects, and our Infrastructure team is completely integrated into our broader network of offices. The practice is represented by multiple areas of law, including our Project Development and Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Finance, Government Contracts, Environmental Regulatory (including Energy Regulatory), Tax, and Intellectual Property practices, allowing us to bring the right experience and skills to any transaction.

Our lawyers advise clients on infrastructure acquisitions and projects in both developed and emerging markets and across a diverse range of industries, including:

  • Airports
  • Data centers
  • Electric power
  • Fiber networks and cable television systems
  • Heavy and light rail/mass transit systems
  • Hospitals and other medical facilities
  • Industrial complexes and manufacturing facilities
  • Pipelines
  • Ports
  • Rail and terminals
  • Roads, toll roads, and toll bridges
  • Renewables
  • Sports facilities
  • Telecommunication towers
  • Transportation and logistics
  • Waste oil recycling
  • Water and wastewater

Experience Highlights

  • Aleática, an IFM Investors portfolio company, in the issuance of a project bond and bank debt for the financing of the Autopista Río Magdalena 2 highway project, a major greenfield 4G toll road in Colombia (PFI Americas Transport Deal of the Year, 2021)

  • Aligned Data Centers in connection with a structured minority investment by SDC Capital Partners as part of the financing for the acquisition of Odata, a data center provider in Latin America

  • Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in connection with a joint venture with QatarEnergy to develop an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas

  • Blackstone in its acquisition of Sabre Industries from The Jordan Company

  • OCI Global in all aspects of the development, and subsequent $2.35 billion sale, of its equity interests in a clean ammonia project under construction in Beaumont, Texas to Woodside Energy Group

  • Gulf Coast Ammonia as project counsel in the development and financing of a world-scale ammonia project in Texas, including the negotiation of a financeable marine terminal services agreement, EPC contract, O&M contracts, feedstock supply agreements, offtake agreements, and site agreements, and also the negotiation of a $574.3 million debt package from a consortium of nine commercial banks (Proximo’s 2019 North American Petrochemicals Deal of the Year)

  • Lithium Americas in the project development, financing, and construction arrangements for the Thacker Pass lithium mine and processing facilities, involving a $2.26 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy

  • (Tex.); (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi) – Obtained affirmance of unanimous intermediate appeals court ruling that Texas Central is classified as an interurban electric railway company with eminent-domain authority to build the high-speed train between Houston and Dallas—a ruling that reversed the trial court’s judgment, which had held that Texas Central did not qualify as such

  • Acting on a number of ICC arbitrations in connection with the design and construction of a major maritime project in Central America

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