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Infrastructure - Recent experience

Recent infrastructure experience includes:

Berwick Community Hospital Project
Advised the Public Infrastructure Health Consortium on its bid to develop a new community hospital in Berwick, Victoria. The hospital project is the first health sector, Public Private Partnership project to be progressed in the State.

Brisbane transport projects
Advised Brisbane City Council on its proposal to invite the private sector to undertake the development of a variety of major transport projects within the inner city area, including a number of cross-river tunnels.

Burnett Water Infrastructure Project
The Queensland Government established Burnett Water Pty Ltd to progress various infrastructure projects to enhance water supplies for the Burnett region. We are advising Burnett Water on all legal aspects of the projects, which includes Burnett River Dam.

Cross City Tunnel
Acted for the preferred consortium on this A$640 million BOOT/PPP project. This landmark 2km east-west tunnel under Sydney's CBD is the first road project developed under the NSW Government's PFP guidelines.

Lane Cove Tunnel Project
Advised the Lane Cove Express consortium on their tender for this A$800 million project.

Machang Bridge Project
Advised the Korean Road Infrastructure Fund, who are investing in the SGD$600 million Machang Bridge project, currently under construction.

Passenger transport re-franchising
Advising the Victorian Department of Infrastructure on the re-franchising of the metropolitan tram and train franchises, which form the bulk of the privatised public transport system in Melbourne.

Queensland Southbank Education Precinct Project
Advised a short-listed bidding consortium on issues in relation to the planning, design, construction, financing and maintenance of facilities required for the project, the first to be progressed under the Queensland Government Public Private Partnerships policy framework.

Regional Fast Rail Project
Advised the Victorian Government on all legal and commercial aspects of this project, including delivery mechanisms and contractual structures for the State, the evaluation of bids from the private sector, and advice on existing contractual relationships with private operators.

Southern Cross Station Redevelopment
Advised the Victorian Government on all legal and commercial aspects of the project, including legal risk evaluation, advice on contractual structures and packaging the project for delivery, and the range of private investment opportunities.

Gateway Upgrade Project
Advising the Queensland Department of Main Roads on the $1.6 billion duplication of the Gateway Bridge and upgrade of the Gateway Motorway. The State's largest ever road project will be delivered in partnership with the private sector, through a design, construct and maintain contract.

Metropolitan Mobile Radio Project
Advising a consortium (TVNZ and SES Systems Pty Ltd) tendering to the Bureau of Emergency Services Telecommunications to run an emergency services communication facility - the Metropolitan Mobile Radio System - to connect police, fire, ambulance and emergency services.

Esperance Energy Project
Acted for ANZIB Specialist Asset Management Ltd as sponsor and ANZ Infrastructure Services as arranger for the A$200m development of a power station and gas pipeline near Esperance, Western Australia by Esperance Power Station Pty Ltd and Esperance Pipeline Pty Ltd.

Mitcham-Frankston Freeway
Acting for the financiers of both bidding consortia, the Mitcham-Frankston Freeway will be a 40km link connecting Melbourne's eastern and south eastern suburbs due for completion in 2008. The project will be delivered under the State Government's Partnerships Victoria policy.

Victoria Prisons project
Advising BoS International and Westpac in financing the successful tendering consortium for the Victorian Prisons project. BoS International is arranging the bank debt for the consortium comprised of Bilfinger Berger, Baulderstone Hornibrook, United KG and NM Rothschild & Sons.

Basslink Project
Advising Pirelli who, in consortium with Siemens, are responsible for laying the 295km undersea Basslink interconnector, which will run from Loy Yang in Gippsland, Victoria across Bass Strait to Bell Bay in northern Tasmania, and will be among the longest power connectors of its type in the world.

Challicum Hills Wind Farm
Advised the financiers to the Challicum Hills Wind Farm project in relation to construction issues, including reviewing the EPC documentation for the design, construction, supply, delivery, erection, commissioning and testing of the project, and the operation and maintenance agreements.

Western Sydney Orbital
Acted for the joint lead arrangers on the A$1.5 billion financing. We also acted for Citibank in providing financing for Leighton Holdings' equity contribution. The A$2.5 billion project is the largest urban road project in Australia and the financing was awarded the Project Finance Deal of 2003 by CFO magazine.

Alice Springs to Darwin Railway
Acted for a consortium of banks on the senior project financing for APTC (the builder and operator) on this A$1.4 billion project, which was one of the largest, most complicated and highest profile infrastructure deals completed in Australia in recent years.

 


 

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