- Closed more than $3 billion in taxable and tax-exempt financings as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, trustee’s counsel, and bank counsel on fixed and variable rate debt.
- Counsel to a developer for state of Georgia office buildings utilizing a design-build-finance (lease-purchase financing) model.
- Drafted procurement and project documents as part of the outside counsel team for the Texas Department of Transportation’s Southern Gateway, a $600+ million design-build highway project.
- Advised a state high-speed rail authority on federal financing agreements and other legal compliance matters related to its development of high-speed rail.
- Prepared a due-diligence report for a global highway concession company’s bid to acquire and modify concession interest in the Northwest Parkway toll road in metropolitan Denver.
- Advised on a university’s legal structure and prepared a due-diligence report on a master development agreement for the $1.1 billion University of California, Merced DBFOM campus expansion project as part of the lender’s counsel team for a consortium bidder.
- Advised a global infrastructure firm’s Brazil team on a U.S. airport security RFP and related general corporate matters.
Senior Associate,
- Phone: 404.881.7634
- Email: carlos.encinas@alston.com
Carlos’s counsel helps clients develop critical infrastructure through public finance and public-private partnerships. He has more than 11 years of relevant industry experience in private and public sector roles.