Dykema's Infrastructure and Project Finance Practice Area is comprised of attorneys and other professionals from offices in Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, and Dallas, and draws from our experience in project finance, commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, tax and regulatory matters. We also are involved in a number of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Illinois, Michigan and Texas.

Our experienced attorneys and other professionals counsel clients in a variety of areas including:

• Energy
• Hospital Finance
• Telecommunication
• Transportation

Our Infrastructure and Project Finance team has guided clients such as infrastructure equity funds, lenders, municipalities and other financing authorities, and private and public entities, in the acquisition, development, finance, and operation of a variety of infrastructure assets. Those assets include tunnels, offsite airport parking lots, hospitals, power plants and transmission and distribution grids. We work closely with each client to understand its particular needs and assemble client-focused teams to provide quality service. Our Infrastructure and Project Finance related clients include:

• ITC Transmission, the first fully independent, for-profit transmission business in the US.
• Macquarie Infrastructure Company, a NYSE listed public company that owns, operates and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses.
• Michigan State Hospital Finance Authority, a very active issuer of healthcare bonds for which we have raised over $100M in principal amount to date during fiscal year 2006.
• Energy Cooperatives.

For additional information or questions please contact:
Aleksandra A. Miziolek 313-568-6762
Jeffrey M. Dalebroux 312-627-2136
Adam M. Fishkind 248-203-0749