Kenneth W. Hansen

Partner

Practice Description

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

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

Speeches and Events