Frederick Jenney's practice focuses on international project finance, political risk insurance and cross-border investment transactions, with a particular emphasis on structuring, lending, political risk and intercreditor issues.

Mr. Jenney has represented lenders and developers in project financings in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central and Eastern Europe, principally in the power, water, hotel, manufacturing and telecommunications industries. His project finance experience comprises new loans, refinancings, restructurings and workouts for projects ranging in size from $2 million to $2.5 billion, particularly with respect to co-lending among multilateral and bilateral agencies, commercial bank syndicates and 144A lenders. His political risk insurance experience encompasses both insurance and reinsurance of a broad range of equity and debt investments by developers, commercial banks and capital markets investors.

Mr. Jenney has served as an Adjunct Professor at American University Washington College of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center and The George Washington University National Law Center, where he taught courses covering foreign direct investment, international commercial transactions and international project finance. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America as a leader in the field of project finance (2006 - 2008), Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers, and The International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers.

• Represented Overseas Private Investment Corporation as lender in a $2.5 billion limited-recourse project financing for the construction and operation of the 1230 mW Paiton power plant in Indonesia.
• Represented Overseas Private Investment Corporation as lender in a $54 million limited-recourse project financing for a business hotel in Istanbul, Turkey operated by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.
• Jointly represented Zurich Emerging Markets Solutions, Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd. and AIG Global Trade & Political Risk Insurance Company as political risk insurers in connection with coverage that the three insurers issued to a syndicate of banks for an international project financing of the BLCP power project in Thailand.
• Represented Inter-American Development Bank as political risk insurer of a $158,000,000 note offering to be funded by a European capital markets placement to finance an airport project in the Dominican Republic.
• Represented a private political risk insurer as political risk participant in connection with coverage issued by Asian Development Bank to a syndicate of commercial banks in an international project financing of a power project in Vietnam.