Jeffrey Greenberg > Latham & Watkins LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile

Latham & Watkins LLP‘s project development & finance practice has deep, broad expertise in the full range of energy and infrastructure projects, with particularly notable recent work in offshore wind and LNG, where Jason Webber and Jonathan Rod are especially experienced. Global practice chair Jeff Greenberg  divides his time between Los Angeles and New York, with significant experience advising on large-scale and complex projects in the energy sector. Local finance department chair Chirag Dedania acts for commercial and investment banks, private equity funds, and other sponsors on projects in oil and gas, LNG, and infrastructure, including the development of the new terminal 6 at JFK Airport. His colleague Warren Lilien  frequently leads on big data centers and other digital infrastructure matters. Kelly Cataldo is also a name to note: her practice centers around renewables and she recently advised Apex Clean Energy on a suite of transactions connected to the Great Pathfinder Windfarm in Iowa. Gianluca Bacchiocchi and Guido Liniado are key contacts for work in the Latin American market, and Cameron Lyons‘s practice extends to project and acquisition financing of  LNG, residential solar, wind, and battery storage projects. All mentioned lawyers are based in New York.

Latham & Watkins LLP ‘s energy & infrastructure industry group is a globally integrated and multidisciplined team, serving industry participants across the full spectrum of the power sector; examples include conventional power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, renewable energy, nuclear power generation, energy storage and other evolving electric power technologies. The firm advises on areas including complex transactions, M&A, secured lending, corporate finance and project development. David Owen is a partner in New York and is skilled in complex shareholder negotiations and has a focus on renewable energy projects, particularly wind and solar. Owen was the lead partner on a recent matter for Innergex Renewable Energy, where the team advised the client in three separate transactions, including the sale of its interest in the Shannon wind facility to Starwood Energy. Lauren Anderson (based in Houston) is an experienced lawyer for both private equity firms and strategics, bringing her knowledge into private equity transactions, M&A and general corporate matters. In Houston, Trina Chandler is a recognized M&A and private equity practitioner, having advised clients on strategic transactions across the power and renewables space, while New York-based Christopher Cross  represents companies, government institutions, sovereign and private equity funds and lenders in international joint venture. At the Washington, DC office, David Schwartz serves as global chair of the energy regulatory & markets practice, with Jeff Greenberg acting as global project development & finance practice chair from Los Angeles.

With experience in acting for major energy companies, developers, and investors on high-value and high-impact projects in wind, solar, storage, and CCS, Latham & Watkins LLP earns its strong reputation as a market leader in the renewables space. The team is led by New York-based global energy and infrastructure group (E&I group) vice-chair Eli Katz, who has broad expertise in project financing as well as a niche focus on tax issues related to the sector, and Houston’s E&I group global chair Justin Stolte with a broad expertise in transactions. Also in New York, project finance partner Matthew Henegar and Kelly Cataldo are particularly strong in offshore wind and projects in the US and Latin American market, with Cataldo advising clients on the whole range of construction, financing and investment. Key names on the West Coast include project finance experts Jeffrey Greenberg in Los Angeles and Omar Nazif in San Diego, who is well-versed in development and financing of domestic and international energy projects. In Houston, M&A attorney Ashley J. Nguyen is noted. The firm’s reach was extended significantly in 2022, with the arrival of global co-chair of the firm’s ESG-practice Sarah Fortt in Austin, ESG co-chair Betty Huber, and M&A expert Caroline Blitzer Phillips and Jason Webber in New York, as well as Ethan Schultz, who splits his time between Washington D.C. and Houston.