Allen & Overy announced today that Kent Rowey and Dolly Mirchandani will be joining its New York office as partners in its market leading Global Energy & Infrastructure practice.
Allen & Overy’s U.S. based Energy & Infrastructure team is highly regarded for its work with the U.S. and multilateral credit agencies and in the Latin American region, and significant new investment in this practice area over the last couple of years demonstrates Allen & Overy’s commitment to be the market leader in the energy and infrastructure sectors. In 2010, London-based partner Andrew Fraiser relocated to New York to bolster the firm’s public- private-partnership practice, and earlier this year partner Greg Smith joined the Washington D.C. office to bolster the credit agency practice and Dorina Yessios was promoted to partner internally to bolster the firm’s work with project finance lenders and in Latin American projects.
With the addition of Kent and Dolly, Allen & Overy’s U.S. based Energy & Infrastructure team now consists of more than 30 lawyers (including nine partners), and is expected to grow by a further 30-40% by the end of the year.
Kevin O’Shea, U.S. managing partner, says “Opportunities like this don’t come around very often. The combination of our strategic focus on domestic energy & infrastructure and Kent & Dolly’s reputation in this area makes for a very compelling proposition. The prospects for our Energy & Infrastructure practice are incredibly exciting.”
Gareth Price, Global co-head for Energy, adds “We top the league tables each year as the world’s leading legal advisers for Energy & Infrastructure, an outcome that reflects our sharp focus on providing the best service available to our clients in all of their core markets, of which the U.S. is a critical one. This high profile addition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to both our clients and the U.S. market.”
David Lee, Global co-head for Infrastructure comments “We believe that the need to harness private capital to develop energy and infrastructure assets will continue to be a significant strand to our business going forward – Governments, whether Federal, State, County or City will, we think, be focused much more than ever before on the “how” rather than just the “how much” of capital expenditure question. Kent & Dolly have been helping shape that debate across the U.S. for some time.”
Head of Projects for the Americas, Robert Kartheiser concludes, “We are delighted to have Kent & Dolly join our team. Their arrival will add significant strength to our domestic Energy & Infrastructure capability and also complement our Latin American and U.S. Export Credit Agency practices.”
Kent received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. Dolly received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A. from University of Oxford, New College.
