M. Elizabeth Dubeck

Partner

Liz Dubeck focuses her practice on project finance, infrastructure development, public-private partnerships, real estate development, and leasing.

Liz represents both public and private project sponsors, developers and investors in public-private partnership transactions involving transportation infrastructure assets, including seaports, airports and rail facilities, and including in particular the privatization of governmentally-owned assets. She also represents project sponsors and financial institutions in financings of infrastructure and related projects.

Languages

French

Honors & Awards

Recognized by Chambers USA for Nationwide Projects and Public-Private-Partnerships (2020 - 2022)
Featured as Highly Regarded by IFLR100 in the areas of Project Finance and Project Development (2020 - 2021)
Recognized as "Up & Coming" by Chambers Global for Projects: PPP (2021 - 2022); Chambers Global for Projects: PPP (2023)
Selected as a Project Finance MVP by Law360 (2019)
Named among the “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal (2017, 2020)
Named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Most Influential Women Lawyers in Los Angeles list (2017)
Recommended by The Legal 500 US for Project Finance (2018-2022)

Admissions

Bar Admissions

California

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2006
Yale University, B.A., Political Science, 2002

Professional Activities

Clerkships

Honorable Samuel H. Mays, Jr., US District Court, Western District of Tennessee

Member

American Bar Association

Speaker

Moderator, “When Airlines Consider P3s, What Do They Look For?,” P3 Airport Summit (July 2019)

Author or Co-Author

“Infrastructure: Where we’re going and how we plan to get there,” Daily Journal
“Rethinking Infrastructure Finance and Development Under Biden,” Bloomberg Law

Represented a large US port in various financing transactions
Advised governmental agencies in the development of transportation infrastructure assets
Represented the investor group in the financing and development of an airline passenger terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York (JFK)
Advised the winning bidder in negotiating a long-term concession to operate a major US airport
Counseled a major US grocer in acquisitions, leasing and real estate-related matters