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O'Melveny & Myers LLP Offices
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
400 SOUTH HOPE STREET
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017-2899
CALIFORNIA
United States
400 SOUTH HOPE STREET
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017-2899
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Valerie Smith
Work Department
Project Development & Real Estate; Energy; Water
Position
Counsel
Career
Valerie Smith is a highly experienced project development and finance lawyer who specializes in the development of large infrastructure projects. She represents public entities, sponsors, developers, investors, financial institutions, and others in developing infrastructure assets across a wide range of sectors, including seaports, airports, rail and other transportation projects. She assists clients in creating and securing innovative financing alternatives, including public-private partnerships, federal and state loan and grant programs.
Memberships
- Board Member, Fuego Tech Fire Rangers
- Los Angeles Bar Association
- Los Angeles Women’s Bar Association
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D.
- University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Economics: cum laude
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Healthcare: health insurers
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Industry focus > Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- International Trade > International trade
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Project finance