Mr Nicolai Sarad > Bracewell LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

With a strong focus on the energy and infrastructure space, Bracewell LLP advises on a range of sophisticated financing structures relating to large-scale conventional and renewable projects across the United States and beyond, working for a roster of best-in-class energy players as well as multinational investment banks and financial services institutions. The team also demonstrates wider capabilities in negotiating and drafting a swathe of commercial documents as well as acting as tax counsel on renewable energy builds. Alan Rafte and Thomas Tomlinson co-lead the practice out of Houston and are routinely engaged with energy industry companies and private equity outfits, with the latter particularly noted for his extensive understanding of the oil, gas and hydrocarbons, and has been a chief lead on carbon capture facilities and natural gas conversion projects. New York’s Nicolai Sarad spearheads the firm’s infrastructure offering and works with sponsors, lenders and pubic agencies on PPPs pertaining to aviation, transport and social infrastructure, often advising in Latin America. Jeris Diana Brunette, who also operates out of New York, has been active on a number of debt financings for combined cycle power plants and LNG projects over the past twelve months, and is joined in Manhattan by Fernando Rodriguez Marin who is another key infrastructure name and who has a deep PPP understanding.

Perceived as ‘substantive experts’ in the energy sector, Bracewell LLP‘s sizeable energy group acts in the full range of deals in the renewables space, as well as supporting clients through the development of solar, wind, and power storage projects, among others. Clients include a variety of energy companies but the team also acts on the lender side of deals for banks and financial institutions. Alan Rafte and Ryan Holcomb at the Houston office oversee the department with Washington DC-based Danielle Varnell, who has particular experience in onshore and offshore wind, and solar and battery storage projects. Nicolai Sarad in New York counts MUFG as a client in renewables matters, while in Houston Fernando Rodriguez Marin is noted for cross-border matters involving Latin American jurisdictions. Natural resources lawyer Kevin Ewing is another contact to note in Houston, and younger partners Laura Sheldon and Steven Lorch, in Washington DC and New York respectively, are further key names.