Energy & Infrastructure Partner Quoted on Project Finance Outlook for 2013

Law360
January.01.2013

This article, about project finance trends and the overall outlook for the market in the coming year, quotes energy and infrastructure partner Dan Mathews.

Mathews stated that many renewable energy companies may chose to migrate towards solar.

"Lots of the investors in solar are investors in wind," Mathews stated. "They're thought of as niche [industries], but they're connected to each other."

Mathews also commented on the debt side of proceedings, with many expecting to see the expanded use of project bonds to finance larger-scale projects.

"Capital markets are pretty hot," Mathews said, adding that Japanese and American banks have done just fine in their European counterparts' stead.

Mathews also estimated that public-private partnerships will continue to gain traction in 2013, citing the recent pushes to privatize Chicago's Midway Airport and the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Daniel Mathews Partner

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Dan advises on projects spanning the energy and infrastructure sector, including toll roads, rail, airports, ports, thermal and renewable energy generation, transmission infrastructure, telecommunications infrastructure, and water and waste facilities.

His key clients include major strategic and financial sponsors who have been involved in many of the largest and highest profile PPP and project development transactions over the past 30 years. Dan advises clients on Public-Private Partnerships, large-scale, complex project financings, and acquisitions and divestitures of projects and project portfolios, leading teams that have the depth and breadth to deliver excellence in every phase of a project, including development, construction, financing and operations, as well as providing leading M&A, restructuring and tax advice.

Dan has long been recognized as a leading practitioner in publications such as Chambers (every year since 2005), The Legal 500 and others. Clients describe him in Chambers as a “dean in the PPP space,” the “best in the business” and one client added that “he has an encyclopedic memory about all the deals in the market and a negotiating style that solves problems rather than creating them.”

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