Grétel’s practice focuses on the development, financing, construction and operation of capital-intensive projects in the United States.

Grétel is a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Team. She represents sponsors, lenders, underwriters and other relevant stakeholders in all aspects of development, financing, acquisition, construction and disposal of capital-intensive projects in the United States and abroad, with a particular focus on infrastructure and public-private partnerships (P3s). Her experience includes bank, tax-exempt capital market and Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) financings.

Relevant Experience

• Acted as project counsel to a sponsor consortium in all aspects of the bid, commercial close and financial close for the $1.06 billion SH 288 Toll Lanes Project in Harris County, Texas, consisting in the construction, financing, operation, and maintenance of tolled lanes, general purpose lanes, and associated facilities along an approximately 10.3-mile segment of SH 288 from U.S. 59 to the Harris County line at Clear Creek in Harris County.
• Represented company in its $827-million private-placement notes issuance to refinance senior bank debt on the approximately $1.80 billion Interstate 595 corridor project in Broward County, Florida. The transaction was one of the first refinancings of a greenfield P3 project in the United States and one of the first P3s to be refinanced in the private placement market.
• Represented private equity fund in its acquisition of interests from Exelon Corporation, the Chicago-based electric utility company, in the 1,711-MW coal-fired Keystone Electric Generating Station and 1,711-MW coal-fired Conemaugh Electric Generating Station, located in Shelocta, Pennsylvania and New Florence, Pennsylvania, respectively.
• Represented a sponsor consortium in its successful bid for the Portsmouth Bypass Project in Ohio. The project consists in the development, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a 16-mile, four-lane limited access highway from Rt. 23 north of Lucasville to Rt. 52 near Sciotoville, and is the first P3 project undertaken in Ohio.
• Represented a sponsor consortium in the $2.3 billion I-4 Ultimate Highway Project in Florida.
• Acted as project counsel to a sponsor consortium in connection with its bid on the $2.4 billion Purple Line Light Rail Project in Maryland.
• Acted as project counsel to a sponsor consortium in connection with its bid on Project Neon, a P3 roads project in Nevada.
• Acted as counsel to a wholly owned subsidiary of one of Florida’s largest transportation, infrastructure and commercial real estate companies in respect of the procurement of rolling stock and associated maintenance services for the All Aboard Florida Passenger Rail System.
• Advised preferred bidder in the Tajiguas Resource Recovery Project, a waste-to-energy project in California involving a materials recovery facility and an anaerobic digestion facility.
• Represented an investment and asset fund in all aspects of brownfield acquisition of existing infrastructure P3 assets in Canada.
• Assisted in the representation of the state-owned energy company in Honduras in connection with the $298 million financing from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for the final phase of construction of the 104MW Patuca III hydroelectric generation project in Honduras.

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Education
JD, Harvard Law School, 2013BA, Emory University, 2010