As head of the firm’s energy and infrastructure team, Jeff focuses his practice on domestic and international project finance, including project development and asset, stock and portfolio acquisitions of renewable energy and conventional power assets and companies.

With more than 30 years of experience, Jeff represents clients in all aspects of the development, acquisition, financing and divestiture of renewables and conventional power. Widely recognized for his energy and infrastructure practice, clients praise Jeff for his deep knowledge of the power sector and his ability to “negotiate a deal without the gnashing of teeth” and “make deals happen.” (Chambers USA, 2016)

Given his deep understanding of energy finance, Jeff provides advice on transactions involving complex financing structures, including Rule 144A offerings, syndicated commercial bank debt, mezzanine debt, tax equity, export credit agency and other government-guaranteed financing and risk insurance programs, and multilateral lending agency programs.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Washington and Lee University, cum laude, 1991

BA, University of Virginia, 1988

• Represented InterGen and its affiliates in the development and financing of the Energia San Luis de Paz power project, located in Guanajuato, Mexico and the parallel development and financing of the Altamira Compression Project, a natural gas compression station located in the Port of Altamira, Mexico.
• Represented tax equity investors in various renewable energy partnership flip deals using PTCs, including pay-as-you-go PTC structures.
• Represented unregulated affiliate of a utility in the acquisition of a portfolio of 14 projects that provide utility-like services for industrial and commercial facilities.
• Represented tax equity investors in a portfolio of wind projects using a partnership flip, PTC and pay-as-you-go structure.
• Represented project company and sponsor group in the development, construction arrangements and financing of two geothermal projects located in Utah and New Mexico.
• Acted as project counsel for UniStar Nuclear Energy with respect to the structuring, development, financing, construction and operational matters for the Calvert Cliffs 3 Nuclear Power Plant, including financing under the US Department of Energy's loan guarantee program under Title XVII.
• Acted as project counsel for USEC, Inc., with respect to the structuring, development, financing, construction and operational matters for its American Centrifuge Project, including financing under the US Department of Energy's loan guarantee program under Title XVII.
• Represented a utility affiliate in the acquisition of a number of renewable generation projects, including the acquisition and conversion (to biomass) of coal-fired power plants. 
• Represented InterGen in the acquisition and related acquisition financing of TransAlta's Mexican power portfolio. 
• Represented a utility affiliate in connection with the development of utility scale solar projects.
• Represented ArcLight Capital and DTE Energy Services, Inc., in connection with the sale of 1,000 MWs of peaking facilities in Illinois. 
• Represented global power development company in connection with its sale as a going concern for approximately $1.75 billion, including a portfolio of ten operating projects and three advanced development projects. 
• Acted as project counsel in the development and financing of the DTE Energy Center project, an approximately $300 million industrial production support project relating to eight automotive manufacturing facilities in the United States. 
• Acted as project counsel for the restructuring of the commercial arrangements for three peaking units in Indiana and the subsequent sale of those units. 
• Acted as project counsel in connection with an approximately $300 million refinancing of a coal-fired power plant in New Jersey. 
• Represented InterGen in the acquisition, development and subsequent sale of the Mountainview project, a 1,054 MW project located in California.

• Listed for Energy: Renewable/Alternative, Legal 500 United States, 2017
• Legal 500 USA: The Clients’ Guide to the US Legal Profession. Recommended Lawyer in Energy: Renewables and Project Finance: Advice to Lender, 2016
• Leader in the Field, Project Finance, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, 2005-2017

• Renewable Energy 2018, United States, Getting the Deal Through
• Renewable Energy 2019, United States, Getting the Deal Through
• Renewable Energy 2020, United States, Getting the Deal Through