Simpson Thacher has one of the largest and most active international project and infrastructure finance practices and has pioneered developments in this area for more than 30 years. The Firm has represented parties on all sides of financings of power plants, pipelines, fiber optic cable networks, satellite and other telecommunications systems, toll roads, water collection and treatment systems, airports, oil and gas/liquefaction and other facilities. The Firm also has extensive experience in international transactions involving the participation of official credit agencies and supra-national lending agencies. The Firm has been involved in many of the large independent power project capital market and bank financings in the United States, Latin America and Asia, and the breadth of our project and infrastructure financing expertise permits us to develop innovative financing solutions for our clients. For example, the Firm represented the underwriters in the first capital market debt offering of a merchant power plant in the U.S. and has been involved in numerous merchant power capital market and bank market transactions combining project financing with innovative lease and structured financing techniques.
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