Power

With an enviable record of global awards in the power sector, Shearman & Sterling is consistently ranked Top Tier in Power by Chambers Global and was most recently named Power Legal Advisor of the Year 2009 by Infrastructure Journal.

With decades of experience, industry understanding and regional knowledge, Shearman & Sterling's multidisciplinary Power Group regularly advises on the largest, most complex projects, transactions and disputes in the sector. Our worldwide innovative and ground-breaking projects include work on the largest LBO of a US energy company, the first MENA IWPP structured on the basis of a mini perm loan and the largest private portfolio acquisition of power projects in China.

Shearman & Sterling's Power Group lawyers are based in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, France, Germany, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States, and advise a broad geographic base of power industry clients, including power project developers, independent power producers and generators, domestic and international energy companies, public utilities (investor-owned and government-run), contractors, equipment suppliers, commercial lenders, export credit agencies, multilateral development banks and other financial institutions.

We provide trusted counsel to our power industry clients in the areas of project development and finance—including conventional commercial, export credit and multilateral credit facilities, Islamic financings, hybrid acquisition financings, structured derivative transactions and bank/bond financings—as well as in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, international arbitration and litigation.