Cases
Experience: Domestic: Texas corporate
regulatory counsel for independent power producer/development company selling a 250 MW wind farm in West Texas.
Representation of a developer/project company on 525 MW wind farm in Texas.
Representation of Florida-based construction company on the 148-mile Trans-Pecos (West Texas) natural gas pipeline project.
Representation of Florida-based construction company on the 195-mile Comanche Trail (West Texas) natural gas pipeline project.
Representation of Florida-based solar company on matters related to the Florida Power Plant Siting Act.
Representation of Florida-based development group on residential
commercial applications of solar technology in Florida.
Representation of Northeast-based utility on acquisition of 14.4 MW solar facility under construction located in New Jersey.
Representation of New Jersey commercial establishment on utilization of solar technology
fuel storage facilities.
Representation of Northeast-based utility on acquisition of 25 MW wind power project in Montana.
Representation of an international oil
gas entity on matters relating to multiplex Floating Production Storage
Offloading (FPSO) contracts.
Representation of Northeast-based utility on potential acquisition of 21 small hydro projects located in five U.S. states.
Representation of California-based power (electricity) trader on cross-border sales of power from CAISO
ERCOT (California-Mexico
Texas-Mexico).
Representation of Texas-based power (electricity) generator on cross-border sales of power from ERCOT (Texas-Mexico).
Representation of Northeast-based power (electricity) trader on cross-border sales of power from ERCOT (Texas-Mexico)
CAISO (California-Mexico).
Representation of Florida trust on leasing rights for shale oil
gas operations in Northern Florida.
Representation of European mobile LNG company on acquisition of interest in 1,000+ acre shale gas operation in Pennsylvania.
Representation of Texas-based convenience store company on lending transactions
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deeds in Texas, Colorado, New York
Kansas.
Representation of Texas-based aviation maintenance, repair
overhaul company on acquisition of a company in North Carolina.
Representation of Texas-based aviation maintenance, repair
overhaul company on corporate governance matters
contracts with major airline carriers
owners in the U.S.
Europe.
Representation of Texas manufacturing facility on cross-border maquiladora project.
Representation of U.K.-based company on potential acquisition of water & wastewater facility in Pennsylvania.
Latin America: Lead in-house counsel on two 16.5 MW greenfield hydroelectric projects in Brazil.
Lead counsel for negotiating equipment, parts, materials
service contracts in the power (electricity) sector in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala in multiple sectors of the energy industry: hydroelectric, gas-fired combined cycle, diesel, heavy fuel oil,
coal.
Representation of Florida-based renewable energy company (solar
wind) on power (electricity) trading in Mexico.
Representation of New York-based energy fund on financing related to hydroelectric facilities in Suriname.
Representation of a Canadian renewable energy company in an international public bid for a 300 MW solar farm power generation facility in Mexico.
Representation of Texas-based consortium seeking to invest in development-stage solar projects in Central America.
Represented Spanish development group in preparation
negotiation of Joint Development Agreement
Asset Purchase Agreement for development-stage run-of-the-river 122 MW hydro project in Colombia.
Representation of a Canadian renewable energy company in an international public bid for a 350 MW wind farm power generation facility in Mexico.
Representation of a Canadian renewable energy company on potential acquisition of development stage, wind farm power generation facilities in Northern Mexico.
Representation of a U.S.-based consumer products company as off-taker on a wind farm development project
power purchase agreement for six factories in Mexico.
Representation of U.S.-Mexico consortium on construction
operation of petrochemical storage facility in the Port of Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico.
Representation of U.S. - Mexico consortium on construction of compressor stations for pipeline projects in western Mexico.
Representation of international consortium in two international public bids for 780 MW combined cycle, gas-fired power generation facilities in Mexico.
Representation of Central American lending institutions in the financing of a 140 MW gas-fired flexicycle power generation facility in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico with power purchase agreements in Guatemala
importation of natural gas from Texas.
Representation of international electric company providing engineering
design services in an international public bid for 600 MW combined cycle, gas-fired facility at Valle de Mexico II (Mexico)
a 770 MW combined cycle, gas-fired facility at Empalme I (Mexico).
Lead in-house counsel on cogeneration electric project in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Lead in-house counsel on dedicated (self-supply development) combined cycle, gas-fired electric generation facility in Northern Mexico.
Representation of U.S.-Canadian companies seeking to enter the Mexican market in the transmission
distribution power sectors.
Lead counsel on potential acquisition of hydroelectric
gas-fired facilities in Colombia.
Representation of Public Service Company of New Mexico on two natural gas pipeline privatization projects in Mexicali
Chihuahua, Mexico.
Lead in-house counsel for gas-fired development facility project in northern Peru.
Lead in-house counsel on for reserve energy (black start) project in Peru.
Lead in-house counsel on acquisition of 25% equity interest in gas/electricity entity (gas to power project).
Other Jurisdictions: Lead in-house counsel
Board Member of major Saudi petrochemical company based in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia working on Shared Facilities Agreements, Substations
EPC contracts.
Lead in-house counsel on divestiture of gas distribution subsidiary in Athens, Greece.
Lead in-house counsel for South American
European international conglomerate on restructuring global assets in the media, entertainment
commodity industries.
The above representations were h
led by Mr. Downing prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
In-House Experience: Associate General Counsel, Duke Energy International, LLC, 2009-2014
Senior Counsel, Finser Corporation/Grupo Cisneros, 2001-2008
