Bracewell LLP provides extensive counsel across the energy and infrastructure value chain, with notable strengths in social infrastructure, transportation, utilities, and renewable energy projects. Leadership of the practice is shared between Houston-based Stephanie Koo Song and New York-based Nicolai Sarad, with Sarad regularly advising PAB underwriters, commercial banks and other financial institutions, as well as P3 sponsors, contractors and government bodies across the US market. San Antonio’s Summer B. Greathouse focuses on PPP housing finance mandates for governmental clients. Fernando Rodriguez Marin acts out of New York and recently advised lenders to the Acciona, ACS, and Meridiam consortium on its bid for the I-24 Southeast Choice Lanes PPP in Tennessee. Jeris Brunette departed the team in March 2026.
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Key clients
- Acciona
- ACS
- Meridiam consortium
- Designated Bidders, LLC
- Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority
- Southstar – VIDA
- Trusted Driver, Inc.
- AEP Transmission
- Standard Solar Inc.
- REC Solar
- Equinor Wind Services LLC
- MUFG Bank, Ltd.
- Sol Systems LLC
- Sol DevCo Borrower I, LLC
- ENGIE North America Inc.
Work highlights
Advised lenders to the Acciona/ACS/Meridiam consortium on its bid for the I-24 Southeast Choice Lanes PPP in Tennessee, a 28-mile managed-lane project to reduce congestion and modernize statewide transportation infrastructure.
Advised affiliates of US-based solar power company REC Solar, as borrowers, in a multi-draw project financing led by First Citizens Bank for two portfolios of distributed-generation solar photovoltaic facilities across six US states.
Represented Southstar in establishing multiple PPPs with New Braunfels Utilities and local governments to finance water, wastewater, and public infrastructure for the $2.6 billion Mayfair mixed-use development in New Braunfels, Texas.
Practice head
Nicolai Sarad; Stephanie Koo Song
Other key lawyers
Summer B. Greathouse; Fernando Rodriguez Marin