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Kenneth W. Hansen

Partner

Practice Description

Kenneth Hansen’s practice involves representing bilateral, multilateral and commercial lenders as well as project developers in structuring, negotiating and implementing international project financings. Mr. Hansen is experienced in debt work-outs and the settlement of investment disputes, including political risk insurance claims. He is also experienced as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, and purchaser’s counsel for international project bonds. Mr. Hansen’s sectoral experience ranges from power generation, transmission and distribution projects to oil and gas, transportation, and telecommunications infrastructure projects, as well as a range of industrial and commercial projects.

Representative Matters

  • Represented Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in the restructuring of the Dabhol Power Project (India) and in related political risk insurance claims. 
  • Represented Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P. in the financing by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) of an expansion of the electrical transmission system in Bolivia. 
  • Represented OPIC in the development of a guaranty against devaluation risk for $300 million in project bonds for the AES Tiete Hydropower Projects (Brazil). 
  • Represented the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in connection with the development of a "guarantor-of-record” political risk guaranty which supported financing for the Phu My 2.2 power project (Vietnam) and in connection with political risk guaranties provided jointly with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) to support financing for the Phu My 3.0 power plant (also in Vietnam). 
  • Advised ADB in the formation of its standard political risk guaranty. 
  • Represented the U.S. Export-Import Bank and CAF with respect to financing of the expansion of the Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline (Bolivia). 
  • Represented Endesa (Chile) in the monoline-insured bond financing of two toll roads, Autopista del Sol S.A. and Autopista Los Libertadores (Chile).

Honors

Mr. Hansen is listed in Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2006-2008) for projects and energy in Latin America and Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-2006 and 2008) for projects. Cited in Legal 500 for his work in project finance. He is also cited in The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2008) and Who’s Who Legal – The International Who’s Who of Project Finance Lawyers (2007).

Activities and Affiliations

  • Member: American Bar Association; American Society of International Law; Washington Foreign Law Society (president, 2004-2005) 
  • Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1991-present 
  • Adjunct Professor, Boston University Law School, 1992-1999 
  • Adjunct Professor, the National Law Center at The George Washington University, 1992-1994 
  • Adjunct Professor, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, 1993 
  • Professorial Lecturer, the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, 2000-present

Publications

  • "A Bit of Insurance," International Political Risk, Moran, West and Martin, editors, The World Bank Group, 2008
  • "Tactics When Caught in an Expropriation," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2007
  • "The Dabhol Power Project Settlement: What Happened and How?," Infrastructure Journal, December 2005
  • "PRI and the Rise (and Fall?) of Private Investment in Public Infrastructure," Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005
  • "Tales from the Dark Side: Lessons Learned from Troubled Investments," International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future, The World Bank Group, 2005

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Practice Areas

Project Finance

Political Risk

Corporate

Private Funds

Industries

Transportation

Communications, Media and Technology

Multilateral and Bilateral Agencies

Oil, Gas and LNG

Energy

Regions

Africa and the Middle East

Asia

Europe

Latin America

North America

Education

  • Harvard University, Harvard College, B.A., cum laude, 1974
  • Yale University, M.A., 1976
  • Harvard University, M.P.A., 1979
  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1983

Professional Background

  • Associate General Counsel for Investment, Assistant General Counsel, Senior Commercial Counsel and Counsel, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), 1986-1995 
  • General Counsel, U.S. Export-Import Bank, 1995-1999

Admissions

2002

District of Columbia

1984

Massachusetts

Languages

English