Simpson Thacher is a market leader in infrastructure and project finance, with a global team that has pioneered cutting-edge developments in this field for more than 40 years.
Our lawyers have represented parties on all sides of historic and innovative energy and infrastructure finance transactions, covering all areas of the market and at all stages of the asset life cycle, including project finance, acquisition finance, development finance, leveraged finance, structured and investment-grade finance, private credit/direct lending, asset-based lending, back-leverage lending, private placements, tax equity finance, structured equity investments and traditional bank finance on both single asset and portfolio deals. Our breadth and depth of experience representing sponsors, companies and financial institutions across a wide array of corporate transactions provides our clients with sophisticated and responsive capital solutions.
Top-Ranked by Infralogic, 1H25
#1 Legal Advisor on all Infrastructure Transactions Globally by Deal Value
#1 Legal Advisor on all Infrastructure Transactions in North America by Deal Value
#1 Legal Advisor to SPVs and Grantors on Project Financings by Deal Value
Simpson Thacher’s infrastructure and project finance attorneys regularly advise on financings for conventional and alternative energy projects, power generation and storage assets, transmission lines, pipelines, liquefaction, storage and processing facilities, CCUS, transportation, digital infrastructure (including data centers, software systems, towers, fiber and wireless networks), recycling facilities, water treatment plants, mining, petrochemicals, manufacturing and other infrastructure assets throughout the world.
Our team has broad experience in all aspects of project development, from EPC and procurement arrangements, joint ventures, regulatory issues and commercial contract structuring and negotiation. This complements our position as a market leading project finance practice and the premier “one-stop-shop” in the market.
Significant Transactions
Pioneers in the industry for more than four decades, Simpson Thacher attorneys have advised on historic and market-leading projects including:
- the largest ever data center deal globally
- one of the largest, state-of-the-art single phase pulp mill developments in the world
- the first-of-its-kind automotive shredder residue recycling facility
- Singapore’s single largest loan for a data center
- a groundbreaking and unprecedented U.S. auto assembly plant with four firms on a single site
- the first power plant in the Philippines to be fully financed by the private sector
- one of the largest prefabricated power plants in the world
- the largest energy storage project in the world*
- the world’s largest ethanol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel facility*
*Denotes work by Simpson Thacher partner at a prior firm.