Richard M. Leder

Partner

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Representation of a consortium in connection with the bidding process regarding PR-22, the José de Diego Highway in Puerto Rico.
• Represented a consortium bidding to develop, design, construct, finance, operate and maintain the Port of Miami Tunnel Project. 
• Represented a leading investment bank in connection with the purchase of an equity interest in the Chicago Skyway Project. 
• Represented a bidder with respect to the tax ramifications of the Indiana Toll Road Project. 
• Represented the creditors committees in tax-driven bankruptcy reorganizations of a major energy producer and a large clothing retailer. 
• Advised a major European utility company in planning its entry into the U.S. liquid natural gas business. 
• Represented the issuer in a novel securitization of royalty interests. 
• Structured a tax-advantaged disposition of a major subsidized residential and commercial development. 
• Advised a major residential complex in a tax-enhanced ownership restructuring project. 
• Represented a dominant investor in private equity funds. 
• Represented U.S. equity in a cross-border leveraged lease financing (with upper-tier Swedish lease) of railcars in Sweden. 
• Represented a large publicly traded off-shore corporation in a restructuring of its U.S. holdings. 
• Represented both equity investors and lessees in U.S. leveraged lease financings of a electricity-generating facilities.

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