Yuval Cohen

Yuval Cohen, PhD, is a Director and Global Principal at Jacobs' Capital & Program Advisory practice operating worldwide. Yuval is an infrastructure and project finance specialist, holding a wide variety of roles over 36-year+ career that started on Wall Street. He has played hands on roles with complex capital projects in infrastructure, including power, renewables and energy projects, airport and buildings projects, road, rail and ports, advising clients such as government bodies, private lenders, investors such as pension funds and federal credit support agencies such as directly to the US Build America Bureau TIFIA program office. His global expertise includes a wide variety of design/build, alternative delivery, investment partnership/P3 projects, he is a nationally recognized thought leader, and his reports to lenders, investors and government agencies have supported over US $26 billion in successfully financed P3 projects that are currently operational. 

Yuval served as a lead advisor on several award winning innovative delivery transactions involving a number of firsts in the Americas: social (vertical) infrastructure (first courthouse P3 in the U.S., the Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse in Long Beach); among one of the earliest higher education energy/utility systems P3 projects in a university setting, advising Baylor University, University of Iowa, Alaska-Fairbanks and other centers of learning in Kentucky and Maryland; airports, (first P3 of a U.S. FAA-controlled airport at San Juan, Puerto Rico supporting the winning bidder, Highstar Capital and Asur (Aerostar) in their bid); roads (the first P3s in Virginia – Dulles/Leesburg P3, continuing with the Elizabeth River tunnel/bridge crossings, serving as lenders' advisor and conducting road shows to bond investors; I495 Capital Beltway; 95 Express Lanes, and the first road P3s in California in the modern era including SR-125, the Mt. San Miguel Parkway in San Diego; and the first brownfield road P3 since the 2008 credit crisis, Puerto Rico's PR22/5); rail (first commuter rail P3 project in the U.S., the Denver-Eagle Fastracks p3); ports (leading the advisory team supporting the largest syndicated financing/acquisition by Ontario Teachers' of the four largest container terminals in North America); and water desalination facilities (first one financed in South America, seawater reverse osmosis treatment plant).