Roundtables on Infrastructure Finance & Development - 1st General Counsels' Roundtable, January 21-22, 2005

The 1st General Counsels Roundtable was held on January 21-22, 2005 at Stanford University, hosted by the Stanford University Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP). The Roundtable was co-chaired by Professor Thomas C. Heller of the Stanford Law School and Barry Metzger, a senior partner of the Coudert Brothers international law firm. Participating in the Roundtable discussions were senior lawyers and business executives from a cross-section of project sponsors, investment funds, engineering firms, multilateral financial institutions, export credit agencies and private law firms and academics from law, engineering, sociology and environmental science disciplines. The stated purpose of the Roundtable was to address the legal issues raised by experience with failed and distressed private infrastructure projects in the emerging markets over the past decade, to identify areas of further research into such experience to foster our understanding of the reasons for such failures, and to draw lessons from such experience to inform future public policy and project design.

On this page we present some images from the roundtable, a set of papers and presentations that were used as the basis for discussion, as well as an Executive Summary of the proceedings of the roundtable. A detailed version of the proceedings is available to all CRGP members, and can be found in the private COLLABORATORIUM section of the CRGP website. If you wish to view the detailed summary, please contact Ryan J. Orr.