Nossaman's Infrastructure Group Once Again Profiled as a "Project Finance Practice Group of the Year"
Our Infrastructure Group was once again profiled in Law360 as a result of being named a “Project Finance Practice Group of the Year” (subscription required) for 2021. The group has been named a “Practice Group of the Year” in this sector three times previously. Law360 highlighted our Infrastructure Group’s efforts over the last year working on “major public infrastructure projects” and states that these high-profile engagements helped earn the team “a spot among Law360’s 2021 Project Finance Groups of the Year.”
The article notes that the group’s deep bench of more than 30 infrastructure attorneys are “involved in contract implementation work on projects across the country.” It highlights our representation of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on “its proposed LaGuardia AirTrain project, which would connect LaGuardia Airport to the New York City subway and the Long Island Railroad” and our work on the “Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's $6.8 billion project expanding BART, the rail transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area, to reach downtown San Jose and Santa Clara.”
Andrée Blais is lauded for her work leading the “Sepulveda Pass Transit Corridor, which will connect the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles’ Westside and, in a second phase, the LAX Airport – through a fixed-guideway transit service.”
Discussing the project, Andrée said our Firm is helping to guide the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority “through a type of project delivery that has never before been used in a transit project” and added that, in 2021, the “authority signed two pre-development agreements for different project designs, one involving a monorail and one involving a heavy rail line.” Regarding her work on the project and the impact it will have in the Los Angeles region, Andrée stated that she appreciates how the work is “helping to create a public benefit, something that will improve a community and impact people's lives.”
