The team is the most responsive, timely, and strategic of any firm I have worked with in the development space. We value the quality of the advice as much as the quality of their work.

- Chambers USA, 2025

Hunton’s agency finance practice comprises a highly integrated group of lawyers in strategically important locations around the globe with over 30 years of experience working with multilateral, regional, and bilateral development banks, and export credit agencies.  

Our agency finance team is dedicated to supporting the firm’s agency clients with the execution of their respective mandates across the globe. With key partners in Washington, DC, New York, Miami, London, Dubai, Bangkok, and Tokyo, our diverse and globally positioned team is advising and assisting our agency clients on a daily basis. 

We are proud to serve on multiple agency panels, including:

• International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
• IDB Invest

• CHIPS Program Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce

• Build America Bureau of the United States Department of Transportation

• Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM)

• African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim)
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

In particular, we offer our agency finance clients:

• A team with global New York and English-law coverage for transactions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
• Full alignment with, and support of, the policy objectives advanced by our agency clients.
• Bilingual legal teams experienced in working with a trusted and longstanding network of local counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
• Decades of experience with all of the products offered by domestic and international development finance institutions, including project finance debt, direct equity, political risk insurance, private investment funds, corporate debt, capital market issuances, tier II (subordinated debt) lending, dual currency lending, onlending, local currency onlending, partial credit guarantees, risk sharing facilities, and trade finance.
• Wide ranging experience representing development finance institutions across multiple industries, including solar, wind, hydro, waste-to-energy, nuclear, agriculture, telecommunications, media, technology, pharmaceuticals, medical labs, hospitals, roads, ports, sustainable tourism, and manufacturing, among others.
• Long and deep relationships with more than a dozen of the leading development finance institutions.

Hunton were stellar. Everyone we dealt with was both knowledgeable, extremely professional and dedicated.

- Chambers USA, 2025

Hunton has a willingness to find creative solutions to difficult and unique scenarios and situations. The team is up-to-date on changes in local laws and regulations which may impact the transaction.

- Chambers USA, 2025

Hunton has a super strong team, they always provide sage advice, are helpful and constructive.

- Chambers USA, 2025