Anita Girdhari

Projects and Infrastructure

Anita Girdhari is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Projects and Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, Capital Markets, Global Finance and Latin America Practice Groups.

Anita's practice focuses on infrastructure projects, with considerable practice in all aspects of public-private partnerships across all asset classes including significant experience in transportation (including roads, bridges, airports, rail and others), digital (including forming platform digital JVs related to satellite technologies and broadband transactions), water (including desalination plants, water pipelines and water metering deals), social (including various school transactions) and waste / energy (including biogas, landfills and waste-to-energy work).  When involved in a project financing, Ms. Girdhari is involved in all portions of the transaction, from negotiating the related concessions or leases with the governmental entity; to drafting and negotiating construction, operating and interface arrangements; to all forms of financing including project bonds, corporate bonds, private placements, private lending arrangements, governmental loans, equity contribution arrangements and others; to ongoing representation of portfolio companies with refinancing matters, secondary market acquisitions and divestiture transactions, corporate governance questions, FOIA and similar requests, construction disputes, terminations by governmental grantors, and distressed scenarios.  She also has significant regional experience working on financing transactions in Latin America.