Kenneth W. Hansen

Partner

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Advising BrightSource Energy with respect to its application for a DOE-guaranteed financing of the $1 billion Ivanpah solar power complex, a 440 MW solar power generation facility to be located in the Mojave Desert.
• Representing FirstWind Energy in connection with DOE loan guarantees for the Kahuku wind project in Hawaii.
• Representing Abound Solar in connection with the DOE loan guarantees for the construction of photovoltaic panel manufacturing facilities. 
• Represented Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in:
  • the restructuring of the Dabhol Power Project (India) and in related political risk insurance claims;
  • the development of a guaranty against devaluation risk for $300 million in project bonds for the AES Tiete Hydropower Projects (Brazil);
  • settlement of the Alliant Kyiv expropriation claim against the Government of Ukraine pursuant to which OPIC recently reopened its investment-promotion programs in Ukraine 
• 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);
  •  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); and
  • the formation of its standard partial (political) risk guaranty. 
• Represented Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P. in:
  • its successful bid to purchase in a privatization the controlling interest in Companhia de Transmiss o de Energia Eletrica Paulista SA (CTEEP), the São Paulo state power transmission company, Brazil’s second-largest power transmission company, and in a related interim financing package and its replacement with a $554 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering;
  • 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;
  • acquisition of the Transmantaro transmission system in Peru.
• Represented Endesa (Chile) in the monoline-insured bond financing of two toll roads, Autopista del Sol S.A. and Autopista Los Libertadores (Chile). 

Honors

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 
• Professorial Lecturer, the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, 2000-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 

Publications

Speeches and Events