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Posted: December 23, 2013
Sarah Biser, McCarter & English
What was your most notable project, deal or transaction in 2013?
It was a tie between a multi-billion-dollar applied sciences graduate school being built on Roosevelt Island and, farther from home, the $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal. My work for Jacobs Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is helping it, along with Cornell University, reinvent the city as a high-tech innovation leader with this massive 30-year project.
I represent Constructuro Urbana, the only Panamanian construction company working on the Panama Canal project, on construction of the Atlantic Bridge, which will span the widened canal. I have also worked on claims regarding construction of new canal locks.
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