Liz Dubeck focuses her practice on project finance, infrastructure development, and public-private partnerships.
Liz represents both public and private project sponsors, governmental agencies, developers, underwriters, and investors in finance, development, and public-private partnership transactions involving transportation infrastructure assets, including rail facilities, airports, and seaports, including matters involving the privatization of governmentally-owned assets. She also represents project sponsors and financial institutions in financings of infrastructure and related project.
- Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority in the issuance of over $600 million in senior, subordinate, and second subordinate revenues bonds
- The Port of Oakland in a series of issuances of senior and subordinate revenue bonds over more than a decade
- Citigroup in over a dozen airport special facility financing transactions for multiple major US airlines
- JFK Millennium Partners in the financing and refinancing of over $3 billion of revenue bonds to fund development of terminal facilities at JFK Airport
- LaGuardia Gateway Partners in the financing of over $2 billion of revenue bonds to fund development of terminal facilities at LaGuardia Airport
- Midway Investment and Development Company LLC in its winning bid for the concession and lease to operate Chicago’s Midway International Airport
- IFM Investors in the second phase of the proposed privatization of Chicago’s Midway International Airport
- Franklin Advisors LLC in its private placement investment in the development of Paine Field outside Seattle, Washington
Languages
- French
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2006
- Yale University, B.A., Political Science, 2002
Honors & Awards
- Ranked by Chambers USA for Projects: PPP (2022-2024)
- Recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 US for Project Finance (2023-2024)
- Named to Lawdragon 500’s Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers list (2024)
- Ranked by Chambers Global for Projects: PPP (2023-2025)
- Featured as Highly Regarded by IFLR100 in the areas of Project Finance and Project Development (2020-2024)
- Recognized as “Up & Coming” by Chambers Global for Projects: PPP (2021-2022)
- Recognized as “Up & Coming” by Chambers USA for Projects: PPP (2020-2021)
- 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)
Professional Activities
Clerkships
- Honorable Samuel H. Mays, Jr., US District Court, Western District of Tennessee
Member
- American Bar Association
Speaker
- Panelist, “Opening Plenary: Multi-Modal Transportation Outlook,” Transportation Infrastructure Summit (June 2024)
- Panelist, “Lessons Learned from the Financing Side of the $4.2 Billion Terminal 6 JFK Airport Project,” P3 Airport Summit (May 2023)
- 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
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