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Mark R. Spivak

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Spivak, Mark R.

Biography
Mark's practice focuses primarily in the project finance, restructuring, mergers, acquisition and disposition, infrastructure, and privatization areas.

Mark represents developers, financial institutions, private equity firms, institutional investors, and equipment suppliers in developing, financing, restructuring, acquiring, and selling electric generating, gas pipeline, industrial, and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and abroad.

Mark has represented clients in transactions in the United States, South America, the Caribbean basin, Asia, Africa, and Eastern and Western Europe, including transactions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Tunisia, and Venezuela. These transactions have involved both greenfield development and financing, restructuring and refinancing projects and companies, and the acquisition and sale of energy-sector assets.

Mark has extensive experience in structuring transactions, as well as drafting and negotiating power, water, and steam sales agreements; turnkey construction contracts; operation and maintenance agreements; fuel supply agreements; loan and collateral security documentation; political risk guarantees; stock purchase agreements; asset purchase agreements; partnership, shareholder, and limited liability company agreements; and related documentation.


Representative Experience
Project Development and Finance
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  • Represented AES Gener S.A. in connection with the development and financing of the Angamos project, a 462 MW (net) pulverized coal-fired generating facility in Mejillones, Region II of Chile; this deal was named Project Finance International's 2008 Power "Deal of the Year" (Americas), Power Finance & Risk's 2008 "Deal of the Year" (Americas), Infrastructure Journal's 2008 Power "Deal of the Year" and Latin Finance's 2008 "Best Project Finance Deal"
  • Represented SunCoke Energy, Inc. in connection with negotiating offtake contracts for two metallurgical coke plants in the United States
  • Represented Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line Company in connection with the financing of a 210 mile TrAIL electric transmission line
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Dispositions
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  • Represented BP Alternative Energy North America, Inc. in connection with the acquisition of a joint venture interest in several wind projects being developed in the United States
  • Represent El Paso Corp. in connection with the disposition of its ownership interest in a power project in Brazil
  • Represented PSEG Global LLC in connection with the disposition of its ownership interest in Meiya Power Company, a company with electric generating assets in China, Taiwan and South Korea
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Education and Professional Background
  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1983 (Editor, The Tax Lawyer)
  • Muhlenberg College, B.A. magna cum laude, 1980
  • Admitted to practice: District of Columbia, 1984
Professional Recognition
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  • The International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers, 2010
  • "Top Lawyers," Corporate Counsel Magazine, 2008
  • Legal Media Group's (Euromoney's) Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers, 2003 - 2006, 2008 - 2010


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