Dubeck led the O'Melveny team that handled a $2.5 million bond financing as part of LaGuardia Gateway Partners' redevelopment of New York LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal Building. The five years of negotiations resulted in $4 billion to revamp the airport's main terminal, the largest public-private partnership to date.
"It was a fascinating deal," Dubeck said. "A lot of these airport privatizations are pretty new and there are a lot of opportunities to think creatively and come up with new structures that will work in a relatively new space."
Dubeck began her transportation financing practice in her first years at O'Melveny when she landed on a team that worked to privatize Chicago Midway International Airport. Though the deal fell through during the 2008 financial crisis, Dubeck credits her experience getting to know the clients and partners who worked in the field as the impetus for her practice.
Since then she has worked with airline carriers at airports across the country on financing projects. Most recently, she helped negotiate the $844 million refinancing of American Airlines' passenger terminal facilities at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and a $104.2 million refinancing of American Airlines' aircraft maintenance facilities at Tulsa International Airport.
"I think it's an industry that has great clients," she said. "And I love having something tangible at the end of the day that you can actually go and see the culmination of a lot of work."
Dubeck's practice is not limited to the aviation industry. She is currently representing the California High-Speed Rail Authority as it ventures to construct the country's first high-speed rail system. Dubeck also represented underwriters Wells Fargo Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities with the refinancing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's long-term debt structure.
- Nicolas Sonnenburg
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