Hunton & Williams Named 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 its home market.
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 Hunton’s more than 800 lawyers, more than 100 are solely dedicated to energy and infrastructure 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 & 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.
About Hunton & Williams LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to more than 800 lawyers serving clients in 100 countries from 19 offices around the world. Our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, and our experience extends to practice areas including bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, real estate, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and cybersecurity. For additional information visit www.hunton.com.
