O’Melveny Worldwide

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)

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