Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas

Bracewell & Giuliani ^ | 03/01/2007

[Calpernia]

DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton�counties. The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road.

Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million.

"Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said�Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country."

Three firms have competed for the Comprehensive Development Agreement for State Highway 121 since last summer. The proposals were reviewed and scored based on selection criteria set forth by the Regional Transportation Council, the metropolitan planning agency for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

This CDA is a public-private partnership that allows the provider to handle all facets of developing the toll road, including completing construction and operating and maintaining the corridor.

Cintra, a subsidiary of Grupo Ferrovial specialized in toll roads and car parks, is one of the world's leading private-sector developers of transport infrastructure.

[Calpernia]

Trans-Texas Corridor!

[wastedyears]

They want to build a freeway through Toon Town?

I had to

[Calpernia]

Ping!

[Calpernia]

ping

[Calpernia]

http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/appointments/Appointment.2005-10-11.3611

Oct. 11, 2005

Gov. Perry Appoints Colleen McHugh To the University of Texas System Board of Regents

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today announced the appointment of Colleen McHugh of Corpus Christi to the University of Texas System Board of Regents for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2011. This is only the second appointment of a Corpus Christi resident to the University of Texas System Board of Regents in its 120 year history.

McHugh has a distinguished record of public service. She was appointed in 1998 as the first woman to serve on the Texas Public Safety Commission, where she has served as chair since 2001. Gov. Perry also appointed her to serve on the Task Force on Homeland Security. McHugh is a past president of the State Bar of Texas, where she was the first woman to chair the Board of Directors. She is a board member of the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation and vice-chairman of the Christus Spohn Health System Board of Trustees. She is a past president of the Corpus Christi Bar Association and the U.S.S. Lexington Museum.

A graduate of Southern Methodist University, McHugh received a law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law. She currently is a partner with Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP.,

[wolfcreek]

Figures.....I don't like Rudy or the TTC.

[rpgdfmx]

I was gonna ask if people realized the Giuliani was Rudy, but I guess y'all are on the ball :-)

[Calpernia]

Regent Colleen McHugh
Official term: October 2005 - February 2011

Editor's Note: This is the ninth of a 10-part series on each member of the UT System Board of Regents, the board of operating directors for all 15 UT campuses. All have been appointed by Gov. Rick Perry.

Before her ascension to the Board of Regents, Colleen McHugh had a history of appointments by the current occupant of the governor's mansion, Rick Perry. In 2001, he appointed her to the Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security, and in 2004 he reappointed her to the Texas Public Safety Commission, after then-Gov. George W. Bush made her the first woman to serve the commission in 1998.

She later resigned that post to serve as a UT System regent when Perry appointed her in October 2005.

McHugh has no education experience from the University - she received her undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University and her law degree from St. Mary's University School of Law. But she has spent a good deal of time in the legal world and until recently was a partner with the corporate law firm Bracewell & Giuliani LLP., She was also appointed by Republican Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Phil Gramm to serve on the Federal Judiciary Evaluation Committee, which vets federal judges and U.S. attorneys.

In the 1990s, McHugh served on the board of directors for the Texas Bar Association, becoming the first woman chairman of the board. McHugh later served as the second female president of the Texas bar, from 1996 to 1997, after her friend Harriet Miers served in 1992.

McHugh sits on the board of directors for the University of Texas Investment Management Co., which controls more than $18 billion in donations and endowments for the UT and Texas A&M University Systems, investing much of that money back into the private sector. She has business interests with American Bank, N.A., where she sits on the board of directors and has more than 1,000 shares of stock.

McHugh is treasurer of the Governor's Business Council, a collective of some of Texas' most wealthy businesspeople.


As of July, Colleen McHugh additionally served on the boards of directors for:

• UTIMCO
• Governor's Business Council
• 3200 Ocean Inc.
• American Bank N.A
• CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
• American Red Cross
• U.S.S. Lexington Museum on the Bay
• Center for American and International Law
• Texas Board of Legal Specialization
• Federal Judiciary Evaluation Committee
• Corpus Christi Regional Economic
Development Corporation


Notable contributions:
$3,137 to Rick Perry (R) from 2001 to 2002; $750 to George W. Bush (R) on June 4, 1999; $1,000 to John Cornyn (R) on Jan. 23, 2002; $250 to James Laney (D) on Feb. 24, 2000


Sources: Texas Ethics Commission, OpenSecrets.org

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Didn't Rudy divest himself of that consulting firm? I suspect it is a non-issue (not that I'm pimping for R or anything), unless the firm was involved in his mayoral politics.

[Calpernia]

No, not this one. He divested Giuliani Capital Advisors.

[dynachrome]

"Bracewell & Giuliani LLP"
The name rings a bell. Why is that? Hmmmmm. It'll come to me sooner or later.

[Calpernia]

"Bracewell & Giuliani LLP"
The name rings a bell. Why is that? Hmmmmm. It'll come to me sooner or later.

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Even more of a hmmm is now we have an affiliation with the Toll Road and animal ID, Real ID, ezPass, and Verichip.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796157/posts
Giuliani Partners to provide assistance regarding DNA embedded security solutions

[Wallace T.]

The firm used to be called Bracewell and Patterson. Dating back to 1945, it is a well connected Houston based law firm with oil and gas related companies and financial institutions as its major clients. Rudolph Giuliani joined the firm as a partner in 2005, at which time it changed its name to Bracewell and Giuliani.

[hedgetrimmer]

Ah ha! Clearly the globalists have a lock on all positions of power in the state of Texas.

[Calpernia]

I think dynachrome was being a wiza guy. I had pinged him over from a Giuliani thread we were one that was exploring a few other business connections :)

But, don't let that stop you from adding more information. The more people realize the better!

[Calpernia]

If Texas doesn't shake it real quick, they are going to end up like us (CA and NJ).

[hedgetrimmer]

Too late!

Except it looks like the current governor is courting the Islamists-- the Aga Khan Network he is bringing back to Texas on his visit:

[The] AKDN is a contemporary endeavour of the Ismaili Imamat to realise the social conscience of Islam through institutional action.

What do you suppose they mean by 'realizing the social conscience of Islanm through institutional action"? Government mandating Islamic social conscience? What in the world is a US governor doing encouraging this?

[Calpernia]

>>>social conscience of Islanm through institutional action

Lawsuits and legal posturing

[hedgetrimmer]

Just what the citizens of Texas need--NOT!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!