Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Possessing ‘tremendous experience in large energy transactions’ and combining ’great leadership and team effort to get deals done’, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP handles a diverse array of instructions from a host of clients that include independent power producers, financial sponsors, and global developers. Recent PE and M&A transactions have had a firm focus on renewables and energy transition assets such as hydropower, solar, wind, transmission cables and green hydrogen. Outside of this, the firm continues to excel at large-scale nuclear mandates. Elizabeth Hanigan and Stephen Spina co-lead the practice and operate out of Chicago and Washington DC respectively. Spina is a key contact for electric utilities while Hanigan takes the lead on build transfer agreements for complex energy projects. New York duo John Klauberg and Michael Espinoza primarily focus on high-end M&A and PE deals, whereas Boston’s Amy Maloney‘s debt finance acumen is crucial to a number of acqusition finance and leveraged finance transactions. Laura Neumeister Wright, who also possesses long-standing finance capabilities, acts out of Chicago and is notably active on solar and wind mandates.