Lauri Kai

Experience in project finance includes acting for:

• Representation of the lead arrangers and lenders in connection with a US$ 210 million refinancing of a portfolio of forty-four operating commercial and industrial solar power assets located in North Carolina and Oregon.
• Representation of the lead arrangers and lenders in connection with a US$ 464 million construction loan and tax equity bridge loan financing of four industrial solar power assets located in North and South Carolina.

Experience in commercial arbitration matters includes acting for:

• A international oil services company in an ICC arbitration in New York in a dispute with its joint venture partner over the construction and operation of two ultra-deepwater drillships, and involving parallel bankruptcy court proceedings in the U.S., Brazil and the BVI.
• A South American information and communication technology company in a JAMS arbitration and at the Southern District of New York in a contract termination dispute.
• An owner in an AAA arbitration and at the Northern District of Illinois concerning the construction of a flue gas desulfurization project at a power plant located in the U.S.
• A U.S. State in an AAA arbitration, at the Western District of New York, and at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a dispute over payment terms.

Experience in investment arbitration matters includes acting for:

• An Eastern European state in an ICSID arbitration under the ECT concerning a solar plant.
• The Republic of Uzbekistan in an ICSID arbitration under the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan BIT concerning two cement plants.