Bracewell LLP is adept at a broad array of sophisticated financing structures related to energy and infrastructure projects, with its lawyers demonstrating a wealth of knowledge on PPPs and ‘the relevant credit agreements’. Practice specialities include social infrastructure, transportation, water and renewable energy projects. Thomas Tomlinson and Alan Rafte co-chair the firm’s energy project finance team out of Houston. Tomlinson has a deep knowledge of developing both conventional and renewable energy projects, while Rafte is a leading figure for oil and gas pipelines and midstream facilities. Alongside Tomlinson, Nicolai Sarad spearheads the infrastructure project finance team and offers expertise on significant PPP projects in the United States. Other stand-out practitioners in New York include Jeris Diana Brunette, who focuses on senior and subordinated debt financings and commercial lending for renewable energy projects, and Fernando Rodriguez Marin, who assists with infrastructure and renewable energy PPP projects. In San Antonio, Blakely Fernandez is adept at structuring projects which involve public benefits and incentives.
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Témoignages
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- 'The Bracewell team was led by Jeris Brunette, who understood the relevant credit agreements better than anyone, from both a legal and commercial perspective. Jeris was great at understanding her clients' concerns and issues to lead negotiations to drive home the key points that allowed the client to have an extraordinary outcome, which was to gain some additional economics, remain unimpaired, and allowed the company to continue with its business as a relevant going concern.’
‘The Bracewell team was an experienced finance, litigation, and commercial team, which were all the functions required. The associates were very engaged and responsive to the client, company, and other advisors. They knew what it took to get a deal done.'
- 'I enjoy working with the Bracewell team, as they can always find an elegant solution to solve for a problem that the stakeholders seem to reach an impasse on. Additionally, the team is able to distil complex legal matters down to a simple business or risk concept. They have a good balance of legal, financial, and commercial acumen.’
Clients clés
- Delaware Trust Company
- Pioneer Natural Resources
- MUFG Bank, Ltd.
- Sol Systems LLC
- Tallgrass Energy
- Designated Bidders, LLC
- Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority
- SouthStar at Mayfair, LLC
- Comal County Water Improvement District No. 3
- Evangeline/Laguna, LP
Points forts
- Advising Delaware Trust Company on its roles as collateral agent and depositary on two project financings: one for a 275-MW battery energy storage system in California and another for a portfolio of community solar projects in Maine and Illinois.
- Representing Pioneer Natural Resources in its participation in two renewable energy projects, including the development with NextEra Energy Resources, LLC of a 140-MW wind generation facility on surface acreage owned by Pioneer (the Hutt Wind Farm), which will supply lower-cost, renewable power to the Texas electric grid and Pioneer’s Permian Basin operations.
- Advised a US financial services company – the right lead arranger and a lead lender – on a $363m senior secured first lien credit facility consisting of a term loan, a working capital revolving loan and a letter of credit facility for a power project developer.
Avocats
Responsable de la pratique
Alan Rafte; Thomas Tomlinson; Nicolai Sarad
Autres avocats clés
Fernando Rodriguez Marin; Blakely Fernandez; Jeris Diana Brunette