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Forum Overview
Dates: September 17 - 19, 2025
Location: Kildare, Ireland
Carefully curated by a distinguished Steering Committee, the Forum is an exclusive annual gathering of 48 senior professionals, comprising of in-house counsel from the world’s largest institutional investors and leading lawyers from across the globe. Together, they engage in high-level discussions to tackle emerging risks and challenges in direct investments for major infrastructure projects worldwide.
Using candid, peer-driven discussion, this Forum explores trends and developments in foreign infrastructure investments, to discern best practices for successfully completing transactions and address the long term risks facing investors.
2025 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Krista is the co-head of the Infrastructure and Energy practice, as well as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. Krista has deep experience in complex, innovative, first-of-kind transactions and projects. With robust insight into all types of energy projects and infrastructure asset classes, she regularly leads large teams working to advance significant projects and transactions. Krista is also an accomplished lead negotiator and has extensive experience advising multiple stakeholders with respect to their complex projects and transactions.
Committee Members
Selin Bastin is the Chief Legal Officer of CGFIM. She is part of the leadership team of CGFIM and is responsible for legal and regulatory affairs, as well as governance matters. Selin also plays a key role in the structuring and execution of investment transactions in the energy transition space.
With over 25 years of experience as a corporate lawyer, Selin has extensive expertise in mergers & acquisitions, securities law, and corporate governance. Prior to joining CGFIM, Selin was Managing Director and Divisional General Counsel at PSP Investments. Since joining PSP Investments in 2006, Selin has played an important role in PSP Investments’ growth as a global pension fund investor, and in ensuring continued effectiveness in structuring and executing complex transactions.
Before joining PSP Investments, Selin worked as a corporate lawyer at Stikeman Elliott, where she specialized in M&A. Selin holds a BCL and an LLB from McGill Law School and a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University.
John D. Franchini is a partner in the Global Corporate/M&A Group of Milbank LLP based in New York. Mr. Franchini also co-heads the firm’s Global Infrastructure Practice. He has extensive experience representing infrastructure, sovereign wealth, private equity, hedge and pension funds, together with their portfolio companies, in investment, acquisition, recapitalization, disposition and strategic joint venture transactions. Mr. Franchini has significant transactional experience involving core and non-core infrastructure assets, power generation and transmission assets, midstream natural gas pipelines, telecommunications business and other digital infrastructure assets, including regulated businesses. Mr. Franchini also advises public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate transactions, including stock-for-stock mergers, tender offers, private stock and asset purchases, complex joint ventures, private placements of equity securities and restructurings. He regularly represents clients in competitive auction scenarios, both as sellers and bidders. Mr. Franchini has completed transactions throughout Asia, Latin America and North America throughout his career.
John is a corporate partner who advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, with a focus on the Energy and Infrastructure sector. He advises on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments and carve-outs, often with a cross-border element. John previously worked at OMERS Infrastructure, one of the world’s leading infrastructure investors, as Managing Director and global co-head of legal.
Experienced lawyer with 20 years’ multi-jurisdictional legal experience in the financial sector in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Specialist understanding of various financing structures and extensive experience in all aspects of investments. Strong leader with focus on relationships, Olga is strategic and passionate about playing a role in achieving the best investments outcomes. In her current role, Olga is leading a high-performing legal team focusing on Infrastructure, Property and Debt investments across Australia, the UK and the US.
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