Toren Murphy > Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Transport projects remain a flagship component of the team’s work at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, advising on the design, financing and maintenance of toll roads, highways and bridges, many of which are PPPs. A wider book of work includes marquee infrastructure ventures, most significantly the JFK Terminal One expansion project, as well as university campus utility redevelopments and water, energy transition, and digital infrastructure builds. Furthermore, Meridiam Infrastructure, John Laing, and Macquarie Asset Manager are some of the high-end investors and developers who regularly call upon the team. Team head Tomer Pinkusiewicz ‘is a super-complete infrastructure lawyer’ and is widely lauded by clients for his strong business acumen and extensive capabilities regarding infrastructure financing and development. Anita Girdhari‘s far reaching practice is largely concentrated on PPPs, handling transport, digital, social and waste-to-energy infrastructure assets, which is similar to Toren Murphy who also possesses deep-founded PPP knowledge that centers on transportation infrastructure. All individuals act out of New York.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP‘s Latin America banking and finance practice centres on energy and infrastructure financings. The core Latin America group tends to operate across disciplines and transactions with banking and finance part of its mix of business; it is notably active in project finance, corporate loans and private credit transactions. Toren Murphy has emerged as a key figure in Latin America finance, along with Tomer Pinkusiewicz, another established name and co-chair of the Latin America group. Among a number of headline engagements, the team advised GraMex Investment Holdings on the upsize, amendment and extension of a $110m senior secured credit facility to MNJ Capital to finance a portfolio of local projects in Mexico’s oil and gas industry. Named individuals are based in New York.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has a long history of energy and infrastructure finance, along with M&A transactions in the two sectors. It continues to advise on large-scale investments in energy and infrastructure assets across the region, including advising Abertis Infraestructuras on a $3.3bn investment in a group of toll roads in Puerto Rico. It also advised I Squared Capital and its portfolio company Nautilus Energy Partners on the sale of Energuate, its Guatemalan electricity distributor and subsidiary of Latin American power platform Inkia Energy, to Threelands Energy. Tomer Pinkusiewicz is co-chair of the Latin America group and has an impressive recent record in representing financial sponsors on their investments in Latin America infrastructure assets, along with maintaining a presence in project finance and project bond offerings. Marwan Azzi is also known for advising private equity houses and infrastructure funds on Latin America investments. Toren Murphy and Anita Girdhari provide further senior expertise in project finance, especially in transportation infrastructure. All named individuals are based in New York.