Hogan & Hartson project and international finance lawyers represent clients in the development, construction, acquisition and sale (including privatization), restructuring, and debt and equity project financing of capital intensive projects around the world.

We offer clients the essential advantage of strong knowledge and experience across all aspects of a deal, including corporate, commercial, construction, real property, and finance. Our group includes more than 70 core transactional lawyers, counsel, and advisors (including 30 partners) who have worked together on billions of dollars of successfully financed facilities for a variety of sectors, including power, oil and gas (including LNG), mining and minerals, water and environmental processing, aircraft, airports, telecommunications, aerospace, toll roads, petrochemicals, and other infrastructure-related industries.

Combining the experience of our 25 offices around the globe, we advise developers, construction and engineering companies, utilities, equity investors, financial institutions, and governments.

We are thoroughly familiar with the emerging energy markets, with extensive project experience in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. In particular, we have analyzed the regulatory framework of emerging market countries, developed, prepared and/or evaluated bidding documentation and privatization and concession arrangements, and prepared and negotiated tolling and power purchase agreements, fuel supply agreements, off-take and supply agreements, operating and maintenance agreements, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, and all types of financing and equity-investor documentation.

We have been involved in some of the most important, precedent setting deals in the industry, including several transactions that were recognized as deals of the year by leading industry publications.

Representative Clients

• AES Corporation
• Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
• Sinopec
• FPL Energy
• Sithe Global
• Jet Airways (India) Ltd.
• Pemex Petroquimica
• PDVSA

• Chambers USA ranked Hogan & Hartson among the top project finance legal advisors in Washington, D.C. in 2005-2008. Clients said, "we sleep well at night when they are involved" and described the practice as having "great business sense."
• Chambers Global recommended Hogan & Hartson for energy and natural resources, with particular praise for our oil and gas, and water experience, in the United Kingdom in 2005-2008.
• Chambers Global recommended Hogan & Hartson for energy and natural resources in Poland and Venezuela in 2008.
• European Legal 500 recommended Hogan & Hartson for projects, energy, and natural resources counsel in Poland in 2008.
• Chambers Europe recommended Hogan & Hartson for energy in Germany in 2008.
• Chambers UK recommended Hogan & Hartson for projects & energy; energy & natural resources: best of the United Kingdom in 2008.
• Project Finance Magazine ranked Hogan & Hartson second in U.S. firms and individuals considered "most able in major legal markets" in its 2006 Project Finance market survey.