Energy, Infrastructure, Project Development and Finance

The firm has lawyers specializing in the strategic, legislative, contractual, and regulatory issues associated with the electric power and natural gas industries and large infrastructure projects, most notably with regard to the drafting of legislation, strategic planning for sector restructuring, economic regulation of electric power services, alternative dispute resolution and construction arbitration, infrastructure project development and financing, independent power procurement, power pooling and the sales and acquisitions of electric power plants. Significant representative experience of one or more lawyers on the Energy, Infrastructure Project Development and Finance (“EIPDF”) practice team includes serving as the key strategist and chief legal advisor to and lead counsel in negotiations on behalf of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (“EGAT”) regarding privatization, independent power procurement and power sector restructuring and regulatory reform. In that capacity, one of the firm's lawyers represented EGAT regarding its award winning sales of its 3,650 MW Ratchaburi Power Station ( Project Finance Deal of the Year 2000 and Asia Public Offering of the Year 2000 ) and a percentage of its ownership interest in the Electricity Generating Power Company Limited (“EGCO”) ( Asia Private Sale of the Year 1998 ) and its negotiation of power purchase agreements on behalf of EGAT with all of the IPP Projects that resulted from EGAT's 1994 IPP Solicitation Program and certain coal and hydroelectric power projects to be located in countries adjacent to Thailand. In addition, lawyers in our EIPDF practice team have been involved in numerous major global infrastructure transactions and have extensive experience in all facets of power and other infrastructure project related work throughout Thailand , the rest of Asia and elsewhere.