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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

Baker Botts L.L.P.
700 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Carlos Marquez

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Work Department

Global Projects

Position

Senior Associate

Career

As a senior associate in the firm’s Global Projects group, Mr. Marquez represents both domestic and foreign companies and private equity firms in a wide variety of transactions, including project financing, project development, as well as domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

Mr. Marquez has represented clients in project financing and M&A transactions in numerous countries, including Chile, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Curaçao, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, and Mexico. His transactional experience includes a variety of industries, such as power generation (including renewable energy) and telecommunications.

Prior to joining Baker Botts, Mr. Marquez worked as a student-attorney in the Duke Children’s Law Clinic representing families in a variety of special education and disability benefits cases. Additionally, Mr. Marquez worked as a student-attorney in both the Duke Start-Up Ventures and Community Enterprise Clinics, advising start-ups and non-profits in corporate governance and entity formation issues.

Before entering law school, Mr. Marquez worked as a bilingual teacher in the Houston Independent School District as part of the Teach For America program and later as a 6th grade math teacher with KIPP Houston Public Schools.

Memberships

District of Columbia Bar

New York State Bar

Education

J.D., Duke University School of Law 2017
cum laude
Perkins Scholar
Duke Law Clinical Practice Award

B.A., Political Science & Latin American Studies, Emory University 2011
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program Student of the Year
Pi Sigma Alpha
Political Science Honors Society

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Energy > Energy transactions: electric power

With expertise handling utility mergers, power project development, and retail energy transactions, the power, utilities, and renewables department at Baker Botts L.L.P. remains a powerhouse in the US energy market. It covers a wide array of energy transactions including capital markets transactions, bankruptcy restructuring, and auctions for power assets, as well as power and utility investments, and financing.  The team’s extensive experience leading on high-profile and high-value transactions continues to attract new and impressive clients to its roster which is comprised of notable names from the banking and finance and energy sectors, alongside governmental entities. Leading the group in Washington DC is Elaine Walsh who specialises in energy company mergers, energy asset acquisitions, and divestitures and investments, while in New York Michael Didriksen heads up the practice and concentrates on M&A and project development relating to alternative and renewable power, transmission lines, and conventional power. Another notable name in the firm is San Francisco-based Dino Barajas who is a go-to for all finance-related matters for infrastructure projects in Latin America. In Washington DC, Carlos Marquez is recognised for his prowess representing private equity companies on both domestic and cross-border project financing, development, M&A transactions, and divestitures.

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