International Legal Support Services (ILSS)

The International Development Finance Corporation awarded International Legal Support Services, an unrestricted Master IDIQ with a $50 million shared ceiling, for legal services supporting its Office of General Counsel on international finance transactions, privately managed investment funds, cross-border equity purchases, and political risk insurance and reinsurance policies. Orders may be placed through February 19, 2027. No set-aside applies, and ten distinct prime contractors hold orders.

Awarded August 19, 2021, the vehicle has three months and two weeks of ordering authority remaining, and the most recent task order was awarded August 31, 2026. Orders per year fell from 78 in 2022 and 78 in 2023 to 73 in 2024, 39 in 2025, and 33 in 2026. The vehicle is a re-compete of an existing legal support requirement, previewed in a December 2020 Request for Information under solicitation 77344421R0001. Combined task-order potential value is $52.7 million, with $51.7 million (98%) obligated.

Awarded orders include loan recovery and enforcement work, including a $1,133,016.00 delivery order for enforcing financing documents for Silverstreet Private Equity Strategies. Other orders cover fund-level and investor-side work, debt conversion, impact bond insurance templates, political risk insurance covering an arbitral award default in Egypt, local currency guaranty templates, a general compliance retainer, and local counsel. Project descriptions name countries across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and Eastern Europe, including Colombia, Ukraine, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. The originating RFI projected transactions from $1 million to $1 billion, with loans and guaranties generally $5 million to $35 million.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP leads with 81 orders and $16.2 million in combined potential value, followed by Morrison & Foerster LLP (71 orders, $11.4 million), Womble Bond Dickinson US LLP (52 orders, $5.2 million), and Mayer Brown LLP (43 orders, $11.3 million). The top five primes by order count hold 86% of orders, and the remaining five primes share the rest. The International Development Finance Corporation is the sole customer agency, placing all 322 orders. All 322 orders carry the No Set-Aside Used designation.

Among the most recent orders, obligations range from $12,617.14 to $2,587,023.50, the latter a labor-hour order to Twigg Exploration and Mining LTDA. that was extended to August 2027 by a no-cost modification.

Legal services in the following four categories: (i) international finance transactions, (ii) privately managed investments funds, (iii) cross border equity purchase transactions, and (iv) political risk insurance and reinsurance policies. These services will support the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Office of General Counsel (OGC).