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David Lieberman is a Partner in the Firm's Corporate Department and chairs the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group.
Mr. Lieberman has been identified as a leading practitioner by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Which Lawyer? and The International Who’s Who of Lawyers.
Mr. Lieberman has advised Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of and investment in Sithe Global, an independent power project developer; First Reserve Corp. in connection with its acquisition and investment in GenPower Holdings, an independent power project developer; General Electric Capital Corporation in the acquisition of East Coast Power, which is the owner of the 900 MW Linden co-generation facility; Blackstone and First Reserve Corp. in their $1 billion acquisition and subsequent initial public offering of Foundation Coal Corporation; Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse in the $750 million construction and term loan financing of MEG’s Christina Lake oil sands project; OPTI Canada in the $450 million financing of its interest in the Long Lakes oil sands project; the underwriters in the $1.8 billion, 1,884 MW Homer City bond financing of EME; the lenders in the $730 million, 1,048 MW La Paloma project lease financing of PG&E Generating; the lenders in the $8 billion turbine and project development financing of PG&E Generating; the note purchasers, lenders and underwriters in excess of $2 billion of financings of wind power facilities by subsidiaries of Nextera Energy; the State of Berlin in the $609 million lease financing of its trade fair facilities: HypoVereinsbank in the $160 million project financing of supplier production facilities for DaimlerChrysler Jeep vehicles; Credit Suisse in the $167 million project financing of ethanol facilities developed by Abengoa Bioenergy Inc.; Elektrizitäts der Stadt Zürich as a lessee in a $1.2 billion leveraged lease financing of hydro-electric facilities in Switzerland; InterGen, Ogden Energy and PMR Resources in a $800 million project financing of an electric generating facility located in The Philippines; Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Laufenburg AG as lessee in $600 million of leveraged lease financings of hydro-electric facilities in Switzerland; and Norske Skog ASA in a $500 million leveraged lease financing of paper machinery in Norway. Representative clients include Blackstone, First Reserve Corp., Barclays, Energy Capital Partners, Elektrizitäts der Stadt Zürich, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ and BNP Paribas.
Mr. Lieberman joined the Firm in 1989 and was elected to the partnership in 1997. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia University in 1986 where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1989 he earned his J.D. with High Honors from Duke Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
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Duke University School of Law, 1989 J.D.
With High Honors;
magna cum laude;
Order of the Coif;
Law and Contemporary Problems, Staff Editor (1988-1989) |
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Columbia University, 1986 B.A.
Magna Cum Laude;
Phi Beta Kappa |
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