Meeting All Your Global Transport Project Finance Needs
White & Case’s Transport practice provides private and public sector participants in transport development projects around the globe with timely, efficient and innovative solutions for meeting the most difficult legal challenges.  We are an effective, reliable resource for equity investors, lenders, governments, construction companies, developers and transportation carriers involved in the development and financing of airport, rail, road, bridge, tunnel and port projects and assets in all regions of the world.

Through our integrated global network and communications infrastructure, our team has a firm grasp on local laws, regulations and business practices in countries where you conduct business to create realistic, effective and commercially astute solutions for meeting your commercial and financial objectives. 

Reputation for Delivering for Clients
Our success advising clients on ground-breaking transactions has earned us a reputation for excellence. Accolades for our work in 2005 include:

• “Transportation and Infrastructure Legal Advisor of the Year” — Infrastructure Journal
• Top of the Transport Global Legal Advisors League Table -- Infrastructure Journal
• “Global Law Firm of the Year” — Project Finance International
• “US Law Firm of the Year”  — The Lawyer
•   “Infrastructure Team of the Year” — The Lawyer

First-Hand Industry Knowledge
Our team works with you to structure your participation in projects in a manner consistent with your definition of risk and reward and within the broad framework of relevant legal, economic, political and capital market conditions. We can advise you on many business issues such as:

• Concessions and franchising
• Privatization, commercialization and industry restructuring
• Project and asset financing 
• Public policy and government relations
• Regulation, price control, capacity allocation and consumption
• Rolling stock construction, procurement and financing
• Infrastructure stewardship, operation, maintenance, renewal and development
• Competition, access to and charging for essential facilities
• Commercial agreements, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions
• Dispute resolution, administrative proceedings and judicial review

Rail
Our global railway team is intimately familiar with railway industry operation, development and financing matters, and has extensive experience working with train operators, infrastructure providers, rolling-stock builders, lessors, lessees, governments, regulatory bodies and financiers. We understand matters of railway concessions and franchising, regulation, price control, capacity allocation and consumption, rolling stock procurement and financing, safety accreditation, infrastructure stewardship, operation, maintenance, renewal and development, competition, government relations, access to and charging for essential facilities, mergers and acquisitions, and dispute resolution. Our transport team was named “Rail Finance Law Firm of the Year 2005” by Jane’s Transport Finance for its work on the Perpignan-Figueras high-speed rail link between France and Spain.

Roads, Bridges and Tunnels
Project sponsors, governments, project lenders and many other finance providers turn to us to advise them on some of the world’s largest and most complicated road projects, including transactions involving toll road development, and bridge and tunnel financings. Many have received  “Deal of the Year” awards for their innovative nature (e.g., the Costanera Norte, Chicago Skyway Refinancing and Indiana Toll Road projects). 


Airports
White & Case is one of the leading law firms in the world in the development and financing of international airport projects. We have helped equity investors, lenders, sovereign governments and state-owned companies, developers and project sponsors succeed in some of the biggest and most complex airport financing transactions in recent years, including airport privatisations and other large-scale financings throughout the globe. We can effectively advise you on all regulatory developments in the industry that can prove critical to the success of your project. The “Quito International Airport” project was named “Latin American Airport Finance Deal of the Year” by Airfinance Journal (2005).