Best USA Law Firm: Project Finance, Infrastructure & Energy 2014

NEW YORK — June 26, 2014 — Hunton & Williams LLP was named the Best USA Law Firm: Project Finance, Infrastructure & Energy 2014 by the International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards (ILASA). The award recognizes firms for excellence in annual results, lasting performance in management and leadership, and a high level of achievement in their home markets.

More than 300 international law firms were nominated to submit for the ILASA Gold Award. Judging on qualitative and quantitative criteria was executed by 25 specialist jury panels of 150 Fortune 500 company corporate counsel from major industry sectors.

Of the firm’s more than 800 lawyers, more than 100 are solely dedicated to energy and infra-structure matters, including project finance and development; project acquisition and acquisition financing; regulatory, capital markets and securities; tax and environmental; utility rate reduction bond securitization; corporate transactions; and financial restructuring. The firm’s power and energy capital markets group—a subgroup of the energy and infrastructure practice—consists of approximately 20 lawyers who act as issuer’s or underwriter’s counsel for more than 50 energy companies, utility holding companies and utilities.