Energy & Infrastructure

Hughes Hubbard maintains a leading global energy and infrastructure practice, advising on complex, capital-intensive matters across the full asset lifecycle. We pair our mastery of traditional infrastructure with an agile, market-leading approach to the clean energy transition, supporting the industries that underpin the global economy.

Our experience includes:

• Power & Energy: We regularly act on transactions involving conventional, renewable and nuclear power, as well as energy transmission, distribution and utility financings.
• Digital & Physical Infrastructure: Our team is at the forefront of the boom in digital infrastructure, providing the legal precision required to finance AI-ready data centers alongside traditional transportation hubs and transit networks.
• Broad Client Representation: We advise a sophisticated range of market participants, including:
  • Lenders: International and regional commercial banks, development finance institutions (DFIs) and export credit agencies (ECAs).
  • Equity & Strategic Investors: Private equity funds, infrastructure funds and institutional investors.
  • Project Participants: Sponsors, developers, borrowers, contractors, equipment suppliers, sovereigns and state-owned enterprises.

Through deep experience in diverse structures — including non-recourse and limited-recourse financings, warehouse facilities, and asset-backed solutions — we ensure projects are bankable in increasingly dynamic global regulatory environments.

Our bankruptcy and disputes lawyers are globally recognized for their energy and infrastructure experience, particularly in complex, cross border insolvency, restructuring, litigation and arbitration, including in matters related to uranium concentrates, oil, gas, construction and disputes arising from commodity and derivatives transactions.

Our team and coverage spans the most important jurisdictions and emerging markets, including the United States, Canada, South America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Europe. We are investors’ trusted advisors for energy and infrastructure foreign direct investments across the globe, and particularly for investments in the United States, providing our clients with market leading CFIUS, regulatory and compliance advice.