Infrastructure & project finance
April 2026 | SPECIAL REPORT: INFRASTRUCTURE & PROJECT FINANCE
Financier Worldwide Magazine
April 2026 Issue
Emerging technologies are reshaping nuclear investment, primarily through risk reduction, scalability and new delivery models. FW discusses nuclear investment with Matthew Honeyben at CMS, Ben Shorten at Gibson Dunn, and Amy Roma at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
The legal playbook behind America’s new industrial equity deals
Haynes and Boone, LLP The US government has entered into an unprecedented string of complex transactions securing equity stakes in industries including rare earth mining, semiconductors, steel and energy. A broad array of governmental powers has been deployed in innovative ways to execute these deals.
Using infrastructure unbundling as a financing tool
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP At its core, infrastructure unbundling responds to a structural mismatch between the economic characteristics of particular assets and the blended cost of capital applied to them when they remain embedded within a larger corporate structure.
Energy transition and renewables financing: capital at the core of decarbonisation
TaylorWessing As the use of renewable energy increases, ensuring system stability becomes a key investment consideration. Investors now consider not only generation costs, but also the value of flexibility.
Powering the infrastructure supercycle with private capital
Freshfields Simply making funds available is not enough and does not in itself create bankable investment opportunities. Translating headline funding figures into a pipeline of shovel-ready, bankable projects presents a substantial challenge.
Curtailment in Brazil: from operational constraint to market redesign
Campos Mello Advogados The accelerated expansion of wind and solar capacity, combined with delays in grid reinforcement and the rapid growth of distributed generation, has transformed curtailment into a persistent feature of system operation.
RIGI and energy projects in Argentina: managing contractual and regulatory risks
Marval O’Farrell Mairal The RIGI sets out an incentives and stability framework for admitted projects, coupled with dedicated dispute resolution mechanisms for certain controversies arising between the national state and the admitted vehicle in connection with the regime.
CONTRIBUTORS
Campos Mello Advogados
CMS
Freshfields
Gibson Dunn
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Marval O’Farrell & Mairal
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
TaylorWessing