Akin Gump Represents The Jefferson Energy Companies in $425 Million PPP Financing

August 25, 2021

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(New York and Dallas) – A cross-office team from Akin Gump represented The Jefferson Energy Companies, a subsidiary of Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC, in a $425 million public-private-partnership (PPP) financing undertaken with The Port of Beaumont Water Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas. 

The $425 million debt issuance closed on August 18, 2021 and consisted of $225 million of tax-exempt bonds and $200 million of taxable bonds.

The Akin Gump team advising Jefferson was led by corporate partner Brittain Rogers and included partner Lucas Torres; counsel John Patrick Clayton; partners Matt Bivona and John Bain; senior counsel Jeff Cohen; counsel Charles Armbrust; and associates Jacob Alexander Shapiro and Laura Lindsay Tatum.

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