Joe Fernandez > Moore & Van Allen, PLLC > Charlotte, United States > Lawyer Profile
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC Offices
100 NORTH TRYON STREET
SUITE 4700
CHARLOTTE NC 28202-4003
NORTH CAROLINA
United States
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Joe Fernandez
Work Department
Co-head of MVA's Corporate group
Career
A member of the Management Committee and co-head of the Corporate group, Joe Fernandez represents independent energy companies and private equity funds in power plant finance and M&A matters. He has served as project counsel to electric generating facilities located around the country.
Joe represents traditional and renewable energy facilities in corporate finance and project finance transactions, in acquisitions and divestitures of project companies, in negotiating and drafting project contracts, and in the development and construction of new facilities.
He also has substantial experience negotiating and documenting fuel and fuel transportation agreements for both coal and natural gas-fired electric generating facilities and in structuring, negotiating, and documenting various energy commodity and other hedging transactions involving financial derivative and physically settled products for electric generating facilities.
Joe has represented multiple electric generating projects in connection with engineering procurement and construction agreements, the implementation of long-term parts supply and service agreements, parts storage and warehousing agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, and other management services arrangements. He has also negotiated major equipment supply and option agreements, including agreements for the sale of new and “gray market” turbines and generators.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC has national reach and scope within deals relating to the electric power sector. Joe Fernandez co-heads the corporate practice and covers a wide range of transactional matters, including representing traditional and renewable energy facilities in acquisitions and divestitures alongside energy commodity and hedging transactions. Fernandez also complements his practice with project finance, representing parties on both sides including developers, lenders and other providers of credit support. A further integral practitioner is Josh DeBottis who has broad experience in renewable energy project finance, representing financial institutions. Both lawyers are situated in Charlotte, North Carolina.
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC‘s corporate group in North Carolina and the Southeast is a strong force in nationally significant energy M&A and transactions in the financial services and private equity spaces. The practice is jointly led by Charlotte-based duo Jeremy Godwin, who serves as primary outside counsel to the firm’s largest clients in relation to their corporate, commercial and M&A engagements, and Joe Fernandez, whose knowledge of the conventional and renewable energy segments is noteworthy. Bill Zimmern, who sits in the same office, is at the helm of the largest private equity M&A matters managed by the team.
Lawyer Rankings
- Energy transactions: electric power United States > Energy
- M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m) United States > M&A/corporate and commercial