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Specializing in advising sponsors, lenders, underwriters, and government lenders on project finance transactions in the renewable energy sector, Mayer Brown‘s projects and infrastructure group is a popular choice for businesses seeking assistance with debt and capital market structures, lending, and equity investments, as well as private placements, leveraged lease transactions, and project bonds. The team’s capability to handle a range of high-value and high-profile transactions is a boon to clients from the financial services, energy, and infrastructure sectors. In Houston, Robert Goldberg is the main contact in the practice and concentrates on debt and equity financing, tax equity financing, and M&A, while New York’s Daniel Kiely focuses on tax and sequestration credits. Other key practitioners in the group include Chicago-based Jason Wagenmaker and Katy McNeil, both of whom have deep experience advising on private equity and M&A. Paul Astolfi left the firm in April 2025.
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Testimonials

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  • 'Mayer Brown has a long-standing and respected team that has covered the North American industry from various sides for years.'
  • 'The team is entirely capable and delivers precedent-setting results in a customer-oriented fashion while keeping all sides of the deal working in good harmony.'
  • 'Paul and Katy are very capable and experienced. Along with technical know-how, they bring commercial sense and help parties get to a reasonable finish line efficiently. It seems they can see the end result before others, and help them get there.'

Key clients

  • Apollo
  • Atlas Securitized Products
  • Ares Management
  • Bank of America
  • BlackRock
  • Blackstone
  • Brookfield Asset Management
  • Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  • ClearGen LLC
  • Deutsche Bank AG
  • Diamond Generating Corporation
  • Duke Energy Corporation
  • ENGIE North America Inc.
  • Fengate Asset Management
  • GE Energy Financial Services, Inc
  • Igneo Infrastructure Partners
  • ING Capital LLC
  • MUFG
  • Nestlé
  • Nomura

Work highlights

Represented Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec in consortium with Blackstone and Invenergy to acquire a renewables portfolio from AEP for $1.5 billion.
Represented Engie in the $1.2 billion acquisition of Broad Reach Power LLC from private equity funds EnCap Energy Transition and Apollo Infrastructure.

Practice head

Joe Seliga

Other key lawyers

Rob Goldberg; Dan Kiely; Jason Wagenmaker; Katy McNeil

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