The members of Day Pitney's Infrastructure practice group represent clients in the financing, development, permitting, and construction of major infrastructure projects across the United States and around the world. We understand the legal and commercial requirements of large infrastructure projects and the intricate and dynamic relationships that are formed by the participants in those projects. As a result, we are able to achieve solutions that are creative and practical in addressing our clients' business objectives.
Our clients include developers, owners, investors, lenders, state financing authorities, public development entities, government entities, utilities, nonprofits, and professional service firms, including architects, engineers, designers and contractors. We represent clients across a broad range of industries and transactions, including:
- Energy generation
- Energy transmission
- Water treatment and distribution facilities
- Wastewater treatment and collection facilities
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Shopping centers
- Mixed-use facilities
- Arts and entertainment facilities
- Telecommunications networks
- Healthcare facilities
- Municipal buildings
- Transportation infrastructure
Our experience ranges from the earliest stages of planning and development through siting and permitting, financing, equipment procurement and construction. We also have unique experience in regulated industries and in the decommissioning and demolition of major infrastructure projects. Our team also has significant experience in bankruptcies and workouts involving infrastructure projects.
Our Infrastructure practice group comprises lawyers from many disciplines, including construction contracting, public and private financing, environmental law, real estate, zoning and land use, energy, tax, and other corporate and transactional fields. Our trial lawyers are skilled and experienced in the controversies that arise during and after the construction of major infrastructure projects. Our lawyers also represent clients before state environmental and utility commissions, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in order to obtain the necessary licenses and approvals for these projects.
In addition to providing the legal services needed to develop large infrastructure projects, our lawyers are practical, resourceful, and cost-efficient. We work with our clients to identify, anticipate and respond to issues before they arise.
Representative Matters
- Representation of multiple utilities in the licensing, construction, and decommissioning of nuclear generating facilities.
- Representation of equity investors in the construction of a 1700 MW combined cycle generating facility in Teesside, England.
- Representation of lender in the cross-collateralized financing of 24 landfill gas generating projects in eight states.
- Representation of New England utility in connection with its proposal to build a $2 billion multiphase transmission line from the Canadian border to various load centers in New England.
- Representation of developer of a state of the art $200 million project comprising over 600,000 square feet of retail shops, restaurants, cinemas, residential condominium units, apartments, and office space. Project also involved public parking garages, infrastructure, and streetscape improvements. We handled all aspects of the development, including joint venture agreements, municipal bond issues, financings, environmental issues, zoning and wetlands approvals, permitting, property acquisitions, and related litigation.
- Representation of developer of a 1.2 million square foot mixed-use redevelopment, including public parking garages, infrastructure, and streetscape improvements. We handled the preparation and negotiation of Master Development Agreement with the municipality and the municipal redevelopment agency.
- Representation of master developer of downtown district of Boston suburb, including preparation and negotiation of Land Disposition and Regulatory Agreement for large mixed-use project including public parking garages, infrastructure, and streetscape improvements.
- Representation of municipality in negotiations surrounding its participation in the public improvements and transportation infrastructure supporting a mixed-use project adjacent to the campus of a major state university.
- Representation of performing arts center in the construction of a new 90,000 square foot building containing a theater, classrooms, and administrative offices.
- Representation of major educational/science non-profit organization in connection with the development and construction of a $109 million internationally acclaimed science center.
- Representation of national wireless communications company in connection with the construction of a multistate antenna network system.
- Representation of private water company in the financing of water treatment and distribution facilities through the issuance of several series of tax-exempt bonds.
- Advice to manager of private and public funds regarding the structuring of investment vehicles, and the acquisition and sale of drilling and exploration assets, as well as renewable electric power facilities.
- Representation of equipment vendor/equity investor in 35 MW trash-to-energy project in Detroit, Michigan.
- Representation of Finnish state utility in venture to develop and import nuclear waste reduction process.
- Representation of equipment vendor in joint venture to develop and sell fuel cell technology.
- Representation of ECP consortium in bidding for 250 MW combined cycle plant in Rhode Island.
- Representation of state financing authority in the tax-exempt financing of several colleges, universities, and hospitals.
- Representation of public agency in Atlantic City, N.J., in the negotiation of claims by a general contractor on a pier rehabilitation and renovation project.
- Representation of national and international engineering firm in an action for alleged negligent design and construction administration in numerous states.
