Our global infrastructure practice has extensive experience advising on large scale, long term infrastructure projects, offering innovative financing and bespoke contractual structures.The practice integrates commercial, corporate, planning and contentious and finance practices to provide a full range of services to our clients. We advise sponsors, banks, government and other public bodies, and financial institutions on all aspects of projects around the world.
We have a team with a strong reputation for developing innovative project structures and experience in financing techniques and advise on project development including project structure, contractual arrangements, financing, tax advice and PPP/PFI. We also advise on project acquisitions, mergers, and takeovers as well as all forms of financing, projects, funds and other corporate transactions.
Our extensive experience of acting for awarding authorities, funders and consortia has given us an in-depth understanding of the issues on all sides of the negotiating table. This, coupled with our practical, commercial outlook, means we are seen as a team of deal-doers.
With a team of over 30 partners and 65 associates located across our offices in London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Paris, Moscow, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and a recently opened office in Madrid, our lawyers have worked together on cross-practice, multiple jurisdictional projects. In addition we have a team working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the Al-Ghazawwi Professional Association (GPA), a Middle Eastern firm that has been providing legal advice for the past four decades from three fully fledged offices in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah.
Our alliance with Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe brings together three of Europe's leading law firms. Joint teams from the firms work closely together across all major practice areas, pooling their expertise and know-how to ensure they provide the seamless service to our clients across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Herbert Smith adopts the quality-over-quantity approach of a number of leading City law firms, and has particular strength in blockbuster defence and transport PFI/PPP projects.
Chambers UK 2010
Clients commend the team [projects] for “working quickly and efficiently and for always being willing to help.”
Chambers Global 2009
Widely recognised as an authority when it comes to handling large and innovative projects."
Chambers UK 2008
"High-end transport work is still the mainstay of this ‘ efficient’ practice, for trophy clients such as London and Continental Railways and Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Authority."
Legal 500 2008