Infrastructure

• Represented Taiwan High Speed Rail Consortium in connection with the DBOM contract for high-speed rail in Taiwan.
• Represented leading transportation technology and equipment suppliers in government contracting matters.
• Worked with the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority and the United States Department of Transportation in developing the loan financing approach that has served as the model for the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA). Our team developed and implemented the federal lobbying strategy that led to the enactment of legislation designating the project as a high-priority corridor and obtaining $60 million in appropriations to support a $400 million federal loan.
• Provided expert support to the United States Department of Justice in evaluation of tax-oriented transactions involving railroad equipment in the United States and Europe.
• Served as independent arbitrator in connection with the resolution of claims arising from the development of the Honolulu rail transit project.
• Represented the City of Reno in the Reno Transportation Access Corridor Project. Worked with the Nevada congressional delegation, the authorizing and appropriating committees of Congress and the Department of Transportation to establish the project's eligibility for an $80 million federal TIFIA loan, and is assisting the City of Reno in finalizing the critical funding for this $250 million project.
• Representing an international investment bank before Congress on its interests in transportation policy.
• Assisted the National Parks Conservation Association in efforts to encourage Congress to (1) make $440 million investments in park roads a component of the economic recovery program, (2) increase the funding level for the federal Park Roads and Parkways program in upcoming surface transportation reauthorization, and (3) modify the structure of the federal Transit in Parks program to improve effectiveness.
• Representing a major rail company in connection with the development and regulatory approvals required for a large near-dock inter-modal facility.

Energy & Resources

• The development, purchase and sale of natural gas, pipeline construction and electric power generation within the United States and between U.S. and Mexican interests and U.S. and Canadian interests.
• Negotiating and preparing agreements to purchase natural gas, refined products and electricity, reserve transmission and pipeline capacity, and develop and install alternative energy sources.
• Project finance transactions on behalf of energy companies and financial institutions in combined cycle, cogeneration, geothermal, coal and hydro projects.
• Proposed mergers of petroleum refiners and marketers and natural gas and electric distribution companies in both the U.S. and Canada, including extensive litigation and environmental due diligence.
• Represented national waste management companies in development of landfill gas and waste export projects involving financing and construction of new infrastructure in contested regulatory environment.
• Various contractual arrangements, including negotiating financing of and contracts for sales by a petroleum coker and the sales contract (plus associated environmental cleanup) for a mothballed petroleum refinery.

Water

• Representation of water public utilities in numerous rate, rulemaking and complaint proceedings before the CPUC.
• Representation of a water utility in settlement negotiations with several state agencies arising out of a toxic waste spill.
• Representation of a large water utility in rulemaking proceeding involving the adequacy of the CPUC water quality standards.
• Representation of a land developer in appellate proceedings, federal and state court trial, and before the CPUC, to enforce a civil judgment against a water public utility.
• The continuing representation of an owner of industrial real property in CERCLA cost recovery litigation against past tenants, owner and operators responsible for groundwater contamination. We are also coordinating site characterization and remediation efforts at this site, including negotiations with federal and state regulators.
• Representation of the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, La Puente Valley County Water District, and California Domestic Water Company in litigation in federal court in Los Angeles to recover costs expended to remediate contaminants in groundwater in the Baldwin Park Operable Unit of the San Gabriel Basin Superfund Site, as well as in the more than year-long negotiations between water entities, responsible parties and EPA to reach agreement upon a joint cleanup/water supply project that is the largest of its type in the country.
• Representation of the San Gabriel Water Quality Authority in litigation in federal court in Los Angeles to recover costs expended to remediate contaminants in groundwater in the South El Monte Operable Unit of the San Gabriel Basin Superfund Site.
• Representation of a landowner in the oversight efforts by a national oil company to remediate groundwater contamination caused by our client's former tenant.
• Representation of a major water agency in public policy and infrastructure development.