The energy transactional team at Latham & Watkins has a market-leading electricity transactions practice, with expertise across power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, offshore and onshore wind, solar, energy storage, and nuclear power. The practice specializes in high-profile M&A, secured lending, corporate finance, and project development. David Owen, a specialist in complex M&A and JVs in the wind, solar, and battery storage sectors, and David Kurzweil, a veteran with power-related M&A, lead the practice from New York. In Houston, Trina Chandler supports the practice’s ability with power and renewables, energy transition mandates, and the infrastructure sector. Also in Houston, Lauren Anderson is a key contact for energy-related private equity and M&A transactions. The New York-based Caroline Phillips strengthens the practice’s ability to serve public and private companies and private equity firms across the power and renewables, energy transition, and infrastructure sectors. Christopher Cross co-chairs the New York team’s corporate practice, supporting private equity firms and corporates in high-stakes energy and infrastructure transactions. The Washington DC-based Ethan Schultz is a key practitioner for renewable energy and cleantech infrastructure transactions.

Public and private M&A, project acquisitions and investments, joint ventures, project development, financings, and capital market transactions are key areas of expertise for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. The team is active across utility-scale solar and wind projects and often handles electric transmission infrastructure, lithium extraction, CCUS, and battery storage transactions. From New York, Peter Hanlon and Nicholas Politan lead the practice. Hanlon focuses on transactions in the power sector, including generation, transmission, and distribution. Politan specializes in domestic and cross-border energy transactions, including M&A, financings, and project development mandates. Other key practitioners include Emad Khalil in New York, experienced in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and financings. Also in New York, John Gaffney strengthens the practice’s ability in cleantech, renewable energies, and M&A, as well as capital markets and securities regulation. Vlad Zinovye is a rising practitioner adding to the practice’s ability in cross-border energy and infrastructure transactions.

Across the spectrum of M&A, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s energy and infrastructure team works on electric power and transmission, BESS, data center, thermal energy, and industrial manufacturing mandates. Breen Haire is the team lead in Houston, while Eli Hunt leads in New York, and Amy Mahon in London. Haire specializes in advising private equity investors and public and private companies in the infrastructure sector. Hunt, a key advisor to public and private companies, private equity funds, and investors across the electricity and alternative energy markets, is one of the firm’s leading contacts for electric power work. New York-based Brian Chisling supports the practice’s ability with corporate and regulatory matters with energy and infrastructure clients. Based in Los Angeles and New York, Javad Asghari is another stand-out practitioner on the team for greenfield and brownfield mandates in project development, finance, acquisitions and disposals.

The projects and energy transition team at Akin is called upon by major energy companies to advise on grid modernization, energy transition, and technology integration in the electrical power sector. M&A, joint ventures, and corporate governance are the focus for the transactional team for projects related to natural gas, coal and nuclear generation, transmission and grid infrastructure, and distributed generation. Zachary Wittenberg and Ike Emehelu in New York and Matthew Kapinos in Houston lead the practice. Emehelu is a key contact for transactions in electric power, with a focus on project finance in the renewables sector. Kapinos specializes in project development, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures for energy assets. In New York, Brad Warner is a standout practitioner for project finance and corporate transactions involving renewable energy assets.

Eversheds Sutherland‘s transactional electric energy practice is a go-to for electric cooperatives and generation and transmission owners. Herbert Short, Thomas Warren, Cindy Upchurch, and Peter Fozzard lead the practice from Atlanta. Short is a veteran in the electric cooperative and utility finance realm, and Warren has extensive experience in renewable energy and high-value transactions. Upchurch is a key contact for bond indentures, secured and unsecured credit facilities, and lease financings, while Fozzard is noted for his ability with generation and transmission cooperatives. In Washington DC, Robert Lamkin is a key advisor to trading firms, project developers, and utilities across transactions. From New York, Lance Phillips handles cross-border M&A, divestitures, and private equity mandates related to energy. Alyssa Walker supports the practice’s ability with power purchase agreements, M&A, and regulatory mandates from Atlanta.

Specializing in cross-border project finance and development, and large-scale M&A, Milbank‘s transactional electric power practice is a key advisor to debt and equity investors, private sponsors, and government lenders. From New York, the team is led by Daniel Michalchuk and Daniel Bartfeld. Michalchuk is a veteran advisor to project sponsors and financial institutions across domestic and international project financings in both renewables and conventional energy. Bartfeld is an expert with financial institutions and investment firms in transactions across the power and energy sectors. Also in New York, William Bice is a key contact for development, financing, acquisitions, disposition, and restructuring mandates related to power generation and transmission projects. Supporting the practice’s ability with project sponsors on domestic and cross-border financings and transactions in the energy sphere are Jeffrey Leider and Sean O’Neill, both based in New York.

Across the electric power space, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP advises clients on M&A, project finance, and project development throughout North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The team’s clientele includes major banks, energy companies, and government agencies. Global head of energy and infrastructure projects and a specialist in project and acquisition finance, Aryan Moniri heads the practice from Washington DC. Paul Schockett is a key contact for energy tax on domestic and cross-border transactional and planning mandates. Other stand-out team members include Paul Kraske in DC, who also supports the practice’s tax ability on projects.

 

Vinson & Elkins LLP advises sponsors, banks, infrastructure funds, and institutional lenders across the full life cycle of power projects. Portfolio transactions, strategic M&A, aligning acquisition structures with refinancing, and project development and finance are key areas of focus for the practice. Kaam Sahely in Austin and Matthew Strock in Houston co-lead the team. Sahely specializes in representing investors and developers across the renewable and sustainable energy sectors; Strock is a key advisor to private equity firms across the energy sphere. Eamon Nolan in New York focuses on project finance for large infrastructure and energy projects. Other key contacts include in Houston include Mark Brasher, noted for his experience with power, LNG, data centers, and renewable energy assets, and Stephanie Coco, an expert with project development, complex structured transactions, and M&A.