Susan Patricia Long

Susan Long, Of Counsel in the New York office, is a member of the Energy and Infrastructure Group.

• Engagements

  Private Equity

  • The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation in connection with a term loan of up to US$125 million to a private equity fund, with investments to be made in Indian companies or companies with a significant presence in or exposure to India.

  U.S. Private-Public Partnerships

  • The sponsor in connection with the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a significant extension to an existing express lanes project in Virginia, financed by tax-exempt private activity bonds (Bond Buyer 2019 Deal of the Year – Public-Private Partnership Financing).
  • The financing parties in providing a private placement in connection with the utilities concession at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit in Pennsylvania.
  • A consortium in its bid to operate and maintain a utilities concession at an Ohio university.
  • The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in the redevelopment of the Hudson River underwater rail crossings and associated infrastructure currently in the preliminary stages of development and financing, including possible RRIF/TIFIA funding.
  • A consortium in its bid to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the automated people mover at Los Angeles International Airport.
  • The New York State Urban Development Corporation d/b/a Empire State Development as financing counsel in connection with the redevelopment of the James A. Farley Post Office Building and Annex, including TIFIA funding.
  • A consortium in connection with its bid to design, construct and finance a bridge project in Florida.
  • The sponsors in connection with the design, construction, finance, operation and maintenance of the US$2 billion Purple Line light rail project in Maryland, financed in part by tax-exempt private activity bonds and by a TIFIA Loan (P3 Awards 2016 Best Transport and Aviation Project; IJ Global 2016 North America Rail Deal of the Year).
  • The developer/operator as bond counsel in connection with KentuckyWired, a high-speed, open access fiber optic network across the Commonwealth of Kentucky, financed by a unique tax-exempt structure (Bond Buyer 2015 Deal of the Year; Council of Development Finance Agencies 2015 Excellence in Development Finance Project Award).
  • Consortiums in connection with their bids to design, construct and finance a bridge replacement project and a managed lanes project, respectively, in Texas, both financings structured as a true sale.
  • A consortium in connection with its bid to design, reconstruct/replace, finance, and maintain at least 500 structurally deficient bridges throughout Pennsylvania.
  • A consortium in connection with its bid to construct, finance, operate and maintain the managed lanes project in Florida.
  • The sponsors in connection with the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of multiple express lanes projects in Virginia, each financed in part by tax-exempt private activity bonds and a TIFIA Loan.
  • The sponsors in connection with the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of the commuter rail network in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area, financed in part by tax-exempt private activity bonds.
  • The sponsors for the Downtown Tunnel/Midtown Tunnel/Martin Luther King Freeway Extension Project in Virginia, financed in part by tax-exempt private activity bonds and by a TIFIA Loan (PFM 2012 North American Toll Road Deal of the Year).
  • The lenders in providing a construction loan to the Presidio Parkway project.

  Other Financings

  • Wellhead Energy and its affiliates in the construction and term loan financing of, and a letter of credit facility for, a 99.3 MW hybrid gas-fired/energy storage plant located in California.
  • The financing parties in providing financing for an investor acquiring a portfolio of toll bridges and roads in Alabama and Michigan.
  • The sponsor in connection with the financing of a US$1.8 billion nitrogen fertilizer plant in Iowa.
  • An investor in its US$5.72 billion acquisition of the concessionaire operating and maintaining the Indiana Toll Road (Project Finance International 2015 Americas Transport Deal of the Year; The M&A Advisor 2015 Distressed Deal of the Year (Over $1B) and M&A Deal of the Year (Over $5B)).
  • The lender in providing a development bridge financing for Freeport LNG in connection with its export LNG liquefaction facility in Texas.