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Practice Areas :
Business
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International Business
Patton Boggs attorneys offer substantive legal and related business advice on international commercial, corporate, and capital markets transactions, while also providing innovative counsel to address the risks that often influence cross-border business due to the influence of both U.S. and non-U.S. government entities.
The firm’s international lawyers are highly skilled at managing the unique issues and concerns of private enterprise and government instrumentalities in both inbound and outbound foreign market transactions, honed in significant part by our representation of foreign sovereigns for nearly half a century, and complemented by many attorneys who have served in senior positions in government, whether in the diplomatic corps, federal agencies, cabinet departments, or on Capitol Hill. We concentrate on risk management and liability amelioration.
Our international transactional representation is not limited to advising one specific category of client – rather, we regularly advise public companies, private equity investors, financial services providers, government instrumentalities, international financial institutions, and a multitude of parties on financial, contractual, strategic, and regulatory matters.
Notably, our corporate finance and tax work involves sector-substantive capabilities in a wide array of industries. We assist financial services clients in structuring and negotiating their deals, enhanced greatly by our substantial relationships, giving rise to our familiarity with virtually every area’s markets, customs practices, and laws and regulations, as well as the client’s counterparts in strategic alliances, prospects, and competitors.
Patton Boggs knows the fine points involved in structuring, negotiating, documenting, and implementing a wide array of international business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings (including a particular focus on mezzanine financing and secured lending), hedge funds, real estate investment and acquisition, complex international bankruptcy issues and cross-border investments, assets acquisitions or sales, joint ventures, private equity transactions, distribution and agency agreements, and other commercial transactions.
Representative Matters:
- Represented one of the largest international investment institutions in the world in its global activity involving private equity funds, real estate investment funds, and hedge funds.
- Represented a large international investment institution in its direct real estate investment (both wholly owned and through joint ventures) and its corporate direct and co-investment activities.
- Provided advice regarding restructuring a consortium of governments and international oil companies to develop oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea.
- Advised on structuring a substantial investment in United States by a publicly traded Korean company.
- Represented the developer in 50MW simple cycle gas-fired power plant development in Western China.
- Represented a major U.S. hotel chain in connection with financing from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for the development and construction of a hotel in Turkey.
- Counseled a Japanese bank on financing the Denver Broncos football stadium.
- Assisted a foreign telecommunications client in the acquisition and maintenance of its interests in U.S. telecommunications entities.
- Represented international agribusiness consortia in procuring, negotiating, structuring, and documenting project financings for diversified agricultural projects in West Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
- Represented a foreign government-owned oil and gas corporation regarding the project financing of a $1 billion oil and gas project in Africa and a proposal for a follow-on project.
- Negotiated the sale of Argentine timber lands to an institutional investor.
- Represented one of the largest manufacturing facilities in Central America in connection with debt financing and debt restructuring from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, Bank of America, and several foreign commercial lenders.
- Advised an American university on its business operations in the Middle East.
- Counseled the principal sponsor in $1.2 billion project financing for oil refinery in Thailand.
- Represented a multinational energy company regarding project loan from the International Finance Corporation for construction of gas plant in the People’s Republic of China.
- Advised a major U.S. commercial bank in structuring and documenting various lending programs in Mexico.
- Represented foreign banks and commercial companies from Japan, France, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada with respect to their U.S. operations.
- Negotiated and prepared financial instruments and debt structuring with international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, regional financial institutions (i.e. – the Inter-American Development Bank and the EBRD), national governmental agencies (such as OPIC), and commercial financing institutions located in the U.S. and abroad that provide support for international business transactions.
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