A&O Shearman

Project Development & Finance

Partner

Paul focuses on complex financing, project and acquisition matters across the infrastructure and energy sectors, both domestically and internationally.

His clients are both private and public sponsors, lenders and issuers inclusive of corporations, insurance companies, funds, other financial institutions. Paul assists his clients on the development, structuring and financing of infrastructure and energy projects across asset classes, including roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, ports and power, including campus and district energy facilities. Additionally, a key differentiator in Paul’s practice is his in-depth experience with specialized projects, including water and waste facility development and financing, where he is one of the most active U.S. practitioners having advised on numerous matters, energy transition where he is sought after for first in-kind matters and digital infrastructure.

Paul is a leader in the representation of sponsors and lenders in the public-private partnership (PPP) space, particularly the representation of infrastructure funds and strategic investors on their investments in and development of PPP assets and lenders of all types, private and public, in in debt financings of PPP assets.

Paul also has extensive experience over decades advising governmental agencies on projects and financings (including PPPs), in particular the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on the TIFIA and RRIF programs, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on rail infrastructure projects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the WIFIA program, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office on its financing programs.

English; French