Global Services

Sullivan has built its international capability carefully and strategically. From establishing our own offices to  using non-traditional structures with the best foreign firms, cutting-edge international joint ventures, exclusive international alliances and closely monitored international referral relationships, we are well-positioned to assist clients with all of their global needs.There is no one-size-fits-all model for the many countries we are connected to — we focus on finding the arrangement that works best for our clients and partners within the economic and cultural context of the country. We work closely with our hand-picked network of legal experts in more than 30 countries, with many of our relationships going back decades.  In many counties, we work with more than one firm to ensure that we are always accessing the right expertise for the matter at hand. More importantly, we have the experience to assist in-house attorneys coordinate legal advice from multiple jurisdictions to ensure that inconsistencies between jurisdictions are resolved early and important issues do not fall through the cracks.

Representative Client Work

• Representation of a developer in the project financing of a gas to liquid plant in Trinidad and Tobago, the first in the Western Hemisphere
• Representation of utility in a geo-thermal project in Iceland
• Representation of Dutch utilities in connection with sale/leasebacks of generation plants and electric transmission and gas transportation networks
• Financing for a Russian-based carbon marketing and trading hedge fund designed to acquire, originate and trade carbon credits in the European Union-Emissions Trading Scheme
• Representation of a multi-national financial institution in development of generation facilities in Indonesia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe
• Representation of private equity funds investing in hydro and other generation facilities in Jamaica, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Mexico
• Representation of a Nordic region technology development firm/design house
• Representation of a European technology/outsourcing company in the establishment of U.S. subsidiaries and acquisitions and sales of specialty software companies
• Representation of major European bank in the Madoff litigation
• Representation of European banks in London in asset securitization transactions
• Successful prosecution in the International Centre for Resolution of Investment Disputes, sitting in Paris, of an institutional expropriation arbitration against a former USSR republic
• Initiated and handled a self-administered (ad hoc) arbitration proceeding conducted in the UK under the UNCITRAL