Milbank

Milbank is well positioned to act on a host of domestic and international project financings, representing high-end banks, financial services providers, and financial sponsors on both early stage and operational assets. Infrastructure mandates form a substantial section of the firm’s workload, with impressive activity in the aviation and shipping sectors demonstrated over the past twelve months, but the team’s primary efforts focus on power and energy projects, where the group represent government lenders, debt and equity investors, and developers on both traditional and energy transition ventures. Exemplifying this in particular is practice head Daniel Bartfeld, whose expertise straddles oil and gas, digital infrastructure, transport and logistics, and renewables, which is similar to co-head Daniel Michalchuk who also frequently engaged on both energy and infrastructure mandates. The highly experienced William Bice is able to provide project finance, acquisition finance, M&A and development expertise and is therefore retained by clients throughout the entire project lifecycle, while Jeffrey Leider lends project finance and structured finance acumen to marquee lenders and sponsors, with notable activity in conventional power projects.  Sean O’Neill, who was promoted to partner in 2023, has been active on aviation-related financings and investments over the past year, whereas Kyle Smit has been engaged with natural-gas projects. All individuals are based in New York. Javad Asghari left the firm in April 2024.