If you are reading this, you know how difficult it is to develop and finance clean and sustainable infrastructure in markets that fail to incorporate all costs and benefits associated with essential social infrastructure. While we must also shape the regulatory and policy environment so markets reflect the true cost of our choices, those of us who wish to cause sustainable infrastructure to displace present day incumbents at meaningful scale must compete on simple cost.

Rates at America’s top law firms have risen to the point that high legal expenses can interfere with the ability or willingness of clients to involve experienced legal advisors and can become a factor that limits the ability of great projects to move forward. I spend enough time with my clients so that I can come to deeply understand their business. My approach allows my clients to invest in expert and personalized legal support with less financial burden and less risk. This approach is consistent with my clients’ mission, because it allows them to innovate new business models and offer their products and services more competitively.

For thirteen years I specialized in energy and infrastructure project finance law at full-service law firms, including Orrick (Managing Associate), Milbank (Senior Associate), and SheppardMullin (Partner). Over the course of my career, I have contributed to the success of electrical power generation and transmission, microgrid, mining, natural gas and biogas processing facilities, urban and long-distance transportation infrastructure, and energy efficiency projects in over twenty countries. Through this work I have developed expertise in joint venture agreements, shareholders’ agreements and LLC operating agreements; development, technical and engineering services agreements; equipment supply and EPC agreements; project offtake agreements; limited recourse secured credit agreements; energy hedges, political risk insurance and currency hedges; and export credit agency / multilateral development bank financings. I am also an experienced transaction project manager; I am well-organized and capable of overseeing the work of local counsel and specialty counsel.