Hogan & Hartson’s project and international finance lawyers represent developers, sponsors, construction and engineering companies, utilities, equity investors, financial institutions, export credit agencies, state-owned energy companies, and governments in the development, construction, acquisition and sale (including privatization), restructuring, and debt and equity project financing and refinancing of capital intensive projects around the world. Combining the experience and reach of our 26 offices, we handle some of the largest, precedent-setting projects around the world and are among the few law firms that offer a truly global practice.

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, renewable energy, oil and gas (including LNG), pipelines, petrochemicals, mining and minerals, water and environmental processing, aircraft, airports, telecommunications, aerospace, toll roads and other infrastructure-related industries. We offer clients the unique advantage of strong knowledge and experience across all aspects of a deal, including corporate, construction, finance, real property, environmental, energy regulatory, intellectual property, and tax.

Hogan & Hartson has a long and proven track record in providing innovative legal solutions on the most important energy-related project development and financing transactions. Our considerable achievements for our clients have resulted in numerous awards and rankings in leading industry publications, and several transactions led by the firm have been recognized as “deal of the year”.

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 nationally for projects: renewables & alternative energy and projects: power in 2009.
• Chambers USA ranked Hogan & Hartson among the top project finance legal advisors in Washington, D.C. in 2005-2008.
• UK Legal 500 recommended Hogan & Hartson for projects and natural resources: oil and gas in 2009.
• US Legal 500 recommended Hogan & Hartson for project finance in 2008 and 2009.
• 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.
• Europe, Middle East, and Africa Legal 500 recommended Hogan & Hartson for projects, energy, and natural resources counsel in Poland in 2009.
• 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 awarded Hogan & Hartson ‘Deal of the Year’ for representation of Southwest Generation in a deal with Black Hills Corporation in 2008.
• Project Finance Magazine awarded Hogan & Hartson ‘Deal of the Year’ for representation of Metor in a petrochemical project in 2008.