Project & Joint-Venture Structures
Joint-venture, sponsor and project-company structures that align partners on control, capital and risk for energy, minerals and real-asset projects.
Projects bring together parties who need one another but do not share every priority: sponsors, co-investors, operators, lenders and sometimes public agencies. The structure decides how decisions are made, who funds what and what happens when plans change.
We design and negotiate the agreements that hold a project or venture together, from formation through development and operation.
What we handle
- Joint-venture and partnership agreements
- Project-company and special-purpose vehicle formation
- Sponsor, development and management agreements
- Capital calls, funding obligations and dilution
- Deadlock, buyout and exit provisions
- Coordination with financing and offtake arrangements
How we work
We start by identifying where partners’ incentives may diverge over the life of the project, then build governance and economic terms that address those points in advance.
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