Davis Polk Enhances Infrastructure Capabilities with Leading Partner Elena Millerman
July 01 2024 - 10:26AM
Business Wire
Davis Polk today announced that prominent infrastructure finance
lawyer Elena Millerman has joined the firm in New York as a partner
and co-head of the Infrastructure Finance practice.
“We are thrilled to welcome Elena to Davis Polk,” said Neil
Barr, Davis Polk’s Managing Partner. “Our infrastructure practice
is a strategic priority for our firm. Elena is a leader in the
infrastructure field, with an impressive track record of working on
cutting-edge transactions. She represents a very significant
addition in the continued buildout of our team.”
Ms. Millerman advises clients on sophisticated, high-profile
financings in the Americas and internationally, primarily across
the infrastructure, power, and oil and gas sectors. Her diverse
work includes many first-of-their-kind transactions.
Ms. Millerman has both a deep understanding of the commercial
arrangements involved in energy and infrastructure projects and a
sophisticated knowledge of project, term loan B, mezzanine and
hybrid finance structures. She also has extensive experience with
acquisition financings, project bonds and private placements, other
debt-structured products, and equity financings. Prior to joining
Davis Polk, Ms. Millerman was the Global Head of the Project
Development and Finance Group at White & Case.
“Elena is very highly regarded and well known in the
infrastructure space. Not only is she an outstanding technical
lawyer, but Elena also has uniquely broad and deep industry and
product experience that will complement our existing platform and
accelerate the buildout of our energy, power and infrastructure
practice,” said Jason Kyrwood, co-head of Davis Polk’s Finance
practice. “We anticipate continued strong demand for our services
in this area, particularly from our financial institution and
private credit clients. Among other things, with Elena’s arrival,
we will be uniquely well positioned to help our clients navigate
the next generation of infrastructure financing transactions, which
sits at the intersection of project finance and leveraged
finance.”
“The addition of Elena is an important development for our
growing infrastructure initiative,” said David Penna, co-head of
Davis Polk’s Infrastructure Finance practice. “She has incredibly
deep knowledge of the space and the key players involved, and she
will be a tremendous asset to our team and our clients.”
Multiple publications recognize Ms. Millerman as a top project
finance lawyer. These include IFLR1000, Chambers Global and
Chambers USA, which describes her as “a go-to lawyer in the energy
infrastructure space.”
Ms. Millerman said, “Davis Polk has a phenomenal finance
practice, and I am energized by the firm’s commitment to and
investment in growing its infrastructure capabilities. I look
forward to collaborating with my fantastic new colleagues to help
our clients on their most sophisticated transactions.”
Ms. Millerman received her B.A. from UCLA in 1996 and her J.D.
from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1999.
About Davis Polk.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated
entities) is an elite global law firm with world-class practices
across the board. Clients know they can rely on us for their most
challenging legal and business matters. From offices in the world’s
key financial centers and political capitals, our more than 1,000
lawyers collaborate seamlessly to deliver exceptional service,
sophisticated advice and creative, practical solutions. Visit
davispolk.com.
About Davis Polk’s Finance practice.
We deliver customized, innovative counsel to both lenders and
borrowers on their most important and complex financing
transactions. We have been at the forefront of developments in the
finance market over the past decade. Our broad market-leading
practice allows us to provide advice to financial institutions,
direct lenders and companies that anticipates market trends and
protects against emerging vulnerabilities. Clients count on our
deep legal experience and savvy commercial understanding in
transactions including leveraged and investment-grade acquisition
financing, direct lending, bridge loans, structured finance,
asset-based lending, project and infrastructure finance, and DIP
and exit financings. Our ability to field teams for both syndicated
and direct lending solutions ensures maximum flexibility and
optimal execution.
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Katie Moss Director of PR & Communications
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