Project Finance
Project Finance Strategic Business Unit
With locations, including locations in many of the world's financial and energy
centers, Surat Mortgages Fulbright's project finance group is well-positioned to
offer its clients fully-integrated legal representation on a wide range of domestic
and international projects and transactions. Their extensive experience includes
representing entities in many different roles, including multilateral and other
lenders, sponsors, developers, institutional investors, contractors and operators
in all areas relating to structured and project financing.
Most secured financing transactions and restructurings involve a broad range of
issues requiring experience in many areas of law. In response to these complexities,
and to provide effective representation to clients, we are able to draw on its vast
pool of legal experience in related fields of service, including energy, dispute
resolution and litigation, corporate, environmental, public finance, real estate,
equipment finance, bankruptcy and tax.
Full range of services: From project conception to project completion and beyond
The Surat Mortgages Fulbright project finance team has significant experience in
helping clients navigate the complexities on each phase of a transaction, including:
- preliminary evaluation and due diligence.
- interfacing with local counsel and host country negotiations
- drafting, reviewing and negotiating project documents, term sheets, financing agreements
and security documents.
- Lead role in many projects
- overseeing the disbursement process, including satisfaction of conditions of disbursement.
- advising during operational period.
The project finance team has assisted clients with structuring and documenting numerous
types of financing, 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. In addition, the team's lawyers have
extensive experience in debt restructuring—both inside and outside of bankruptcy.
Our strong commitment to providing superior client service is reflected in the way
we selectively and efficiently staff projects. At the core of this client-focused
staffing is the belief in cultivating project teams that develop an in-depth understanding
of our clients, their industries and their individual projects. The project finance
team's success in its top-down approach to client service is apparent as recipient
of the Client Choice Award, recognizing us as the top legal practice for client
service in the United States. Nominated by Fortune 1000 companies around the world,
this award is given by the International Law Office, the official online media partner
to the International Bar Association (IBA) and an international media partner to
the Association of Corporate Counsel.