Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee
We served as international counsel for the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (Summer of 2008) in connection with many international projects, including the negotiation and implementation of so-called BOB agreement governing the technical aspects of broadcasting, the international television broadcasting agreements, among other things.
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Department of Energy
We currently represent the DOE in a major renewable energy project as loan guarantor, pursuant to the DOE Loan Guarantee Program, for the $1.6 billion project financing of a solar concentrating thermal power project being developed in Southern California's Mojave Desert.
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Department of Energy/BrightSource Solar Power Projects.
We represent DOE as loan guarantor in a limited-recourse project financing for construction of three concentrating solar thermal electric generating plants, totaling 375 MW, to be located near the Ivanpah Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.
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National Policing Improvement Agency.
We advised the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) on a major upgrade to NPIA's contract with Airwave Services that will allow police officers to use their radios while operating anywhere on the London Underground. This project was a major extension to NPIA's core network services contract supporting all of the UK's emergency services radio platform, also a Morrison & Foerster project.
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Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
In Oakland Raiders v. Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, 144 Cal.App.4th 1175, we successfully defended Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and a director in a four-month jury trial claiming US $1 billion damages, brought by a major US football club, the Oakland Raiders.
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San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
We represented the Authority, from its creation in January of 2002, through the transfer of the San Diego International Airport from its prior operator, the San Diego Unified Port District, to the Authority. This included the negotiation of transfers of the personal property, real estate and contracts relating to the Airport, and negotiating a division of the financial assets held by the Port, but deriving from the Airport, as well as working with the Federal Aviation Administration on the approval of the transfer, and numerous state and regional regulatory authorities on the repermitting of the operations of the Airport upon the transfer. We also drafted new codes and policies to guide the new Authority's activities. We continue to advise the Authority in a wide variety of matters, including its first Airport Master Plan and Environmental Impact Report on that Plan, both adopted in May 2008, and litigation with the exclusive FBO operator.
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