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Thelen Reid & Priest LLP
701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20004
Telephone: (202) 508-4000
Fax: (202) 508-4321
E-Mail: [email protected]
Department
Partner – Project & Asset Finance
Mark J. Riedy, Esquire, is Chairman of the Firm's Indian Subcontinent
Practice, Co-Chairman of the Firm's Asia Practice, a member of the
Project and Asset Finance Department, and Chairman of Thelen Reid
& Priest LLP's formal affiliation with Titus & Radhakrishnan,
with offices in New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and Calcutta.
Primary Areas of Legal Practice
Mr. Riedy practices in the areas of energy, environment, communications,
infrastructure and project finance, domestically and internationally.
His work has included the negotiating and drafting of development,
project and debt and equity financing (with private companies and
institutions and bilateral and multilateral international agencies)
contracts and counseling clients on general corporate, tax, government
contracts, import/export trade, regulatory and legislative issues.
He counsels these clients in a wide variety of regions with a particular
emphasis on Pacific Rim countries including, but no limited to,
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan. Over
the years, he has also represented clients in similar projects in
Africa, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Poland, The Czech Republic and
Slovakia, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Central
America. Mr. Riedy has represented clients in South Asia since 1980,
and since January 1991 has spent six months each year on the ground
in India.
In his energy and environment practices, Mr. Riedy has represented
alternative energy (e.g., alcohol and ether fuels, general biomass,
and cogeneration) and conventional (e.g., electric power, crude
oil, refined petroleum products and natural gas) energy, environmental
(air, water and soil issues involving mobile and stationary source
emissions, permitting, hazardous/nonhazardous wastes, storage tanks
compliance, and toxic chemicals) and infrastructure (steel manufacturing,
water supply, waste-water treatment, desalinization, engineering
and construction) clients in negotiating and drafting development
and finance contracts, preparing permit applications and obtaining
certificates thereto, and advising in corporate, domestic and international
trade matters.
In his communications practice, he has assisted a large telecommunications
client to win the first uncontested bid for communications in the
Rao Administration, resulting in the installation of 2000 very small
aperture terminal ("VSAT") units on the National Stock
Exchange in Mumbai. Mr. Riedy, along with Thelen Reid & Priest
and Titus & Radhakrishnan attorneys, has represented telecommunications
clients in each of the bids for cellular, basic services, paging,
mobile trunk radio and other value-added services. Mr. Riedy is
working with direct-to-home TV and radio broadcasters, programmers
and satellite operators on a wide variety of matters, including
the negotiation and drafting of uplink and downlink agreements and
the development of broadcast legislation. The Firm has been counsel
to the largest project financing in history, Africa One - the installation
of a submarine fiber optic telephone cable around Africa which interlinks
forty-two African nations. A similar cable is expected to be installed
around India. Thelen Reid & Priest has been general counsel
to the Pacific Telecom Council which oversees all telecom activities
in Asia.
Mr. Riedy also won, on behalf of clients, the first bids for power
and steel manufacturing facilities in the Rao Administration. He
has won all nine bid proposals he has prepared on behalf of clients.
In this representation, he prepares permit applications and obtains
the appropriate certificates thereto.
Education
Mr. Reidy graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A.
degree, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and from the Georgetown
University Law Center with a J.D. degree.
Professional Qualifications
Mr. Riedy currently is a Board Member of the U.S.-India Business
Council and Chairman of its Telecommunications Committee (where
he drafts many of the position papers for telecommunications, broadcast
and other communications issues), a Board Member of the U.S.-India
Subcommission (statutorily established by acts of the U.S. Congress
and India Parliament in 1974) (where he oversees power, communications
and infrastructure issues), the Chairman of the India Energy Council,
a Board Member of the International Private Energy Association,
the Chairman of the Energy Regulatory Reform Committee and a member
of the Electric Power Task Force of the U.S.-India Commercial Alliance,
and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Long Beach, California-Calcutta
Sister Cities Program. He also is a Board Member of the Association
for Competitive International Telecommunications and the International
Private Water Association, and the Chairman of the International
Policy Committee of the National Hydropower Association. He is on
the Board of Editors of the India Business News, India Business
and Investment Report, and Hydro Review, serving as their legal
advisor for project finance and contracts. He speaks and publishes
regularly on Asia legal matters. He is a member of the American
Bar Association, the Indian-American Bar Association and the District
of Columbia Bar Association. Mr. Riedy is also General Counsel to
energy, environmental and international trade associations located
in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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