Our International Business attorneys have amassed extensive experience representing american companies doing business abroad and in-bound investors or companies
2. Project Finance
involves a specialized
interpretation and
application of legal, financial,
regulatory, and management issues.
3. We have the capital markets
expertise and experience
of New York attorneys
combined with the cultural
sensitivity and legal diversity of a
Miami firm. The combination
produces exceptional results for our local,
national, and international clients.
4. We assist clients with
structuring and
documenting numerous types
of financial transactions,
including non-recourse and limited
Recourse debt, bonds, equity,
quasi-equity, mezzanine debt and numerous
combinations and variations on the foregoing,
together with various forms of credit support.
5. Our Project Finance lawyers advise clients on the full
array of available financing structures, including:
• Rule 144a transactions
• Regulation S offerings
• Debt swap arrangements
• Letters of credit
• Private placements
• Tax-exempt bonds
• Synthetic leases
• Sale-leasebacks
• Subordinated debt
• Term loans
6. RISK MANAGEMENT
Our group of professionals can help identify market,
revenue, production, political and other risks, propose
methods to mitigate those risks and advise on ways to
minimize or reduce liabilities.
7. Our international experience gives us insight
into effective means of managing many
types of project risks, for example:
• Current or potential restrictions on currency exchange and
repatriation.
• Local law limitations to the achievement of perfected security
interests.
• Gaps in insurance coverages and risks associated with natural
and political force majeure events.
• Difficulties enforcing foreign judgments and arbitral awards in
host countries.
8. Because a typical project finance
transaction will involve numerous
major actors (host governments,
multilateral lenders, commercial
lenders, sponsors, construction companies, suppliers, local
utilities, etc.) and involve various contracts involving the laws
of different jurisdictions and sometimes in several different
languages, it is essential that legal representation be
capable of addressing all these issues simultaneously and
frequently under tight deadlines.
9. Not Just Another Law Firm
We are more than just anther group of lawyers. Given
the list of accomplished professionals in our extensive
Miami-based network combined with our experience
in bringing a wide range of projects to completion, we
can provide more than just legal counsel. We provide
business and strategic advice, if necessary, and we
can structure, negotiate and document the full array
of project and financing agreements to suit each
client’s individual needs.
10. Our attorneys, legal specialists, and staff are comprised of a
rich mix of people who provide cultural savvy in addition to
language proficiency, which gives us the breadth and depth
to provide substantial Cross-Cultural Expertise, in the
language of our clients’ preference.
