Fulbright & Jaworski Promotes Pikiel to Partner in N.Y.C. Office

The law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP recently promoted public finance attorney Michael Pikiel Jr. to partner in the New York City office.

Pikiel has been in public finance law since 2002 and at Fulbright & Jaworski since 2006. He specializes in infrastructure, public finance and public-private partnerships.

Pikiel represented Meridiam Infrastructure for a concession to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new court building in Long Beach, Calif. The transaction was awarded The Bond Buyer’s Nontraditional Financing Deal of the Year for 2011.

Pikiel also represented an oil storage company in the largest project financing ever in Central America.

The company, a cooperative venture between Panama and private entities, did a $480 million refinancing and expansion financing to reverse the flow of an existing 81.2 mile pipeline. The company also expanded the capacity of oil storage tanks. Project Finance magazine named it the “Latin American Refinancing Deal of the Year 2009.”

Pikiel also represented the New York Mets in the financing of a new 45,000-seat baseball stadium.

After graduating from law school in 2002, Pikiel went into public finance law at the Boston firm Bowditch & Dewey. His enjoyment of public finance has kept him in the field ever since, he says.

Pikiel mainly works on revenue bond financings.

“One of the things I like is you get to see the fruits of your labor,” he said. Examples of these could be schools, highways or bridges.

He is one of seven public finance lawyers in the New York office. There are 41 public finance lawyers in all of Fulbright’s offices.

Pikiel holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.

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