Lance Brasher

About Lance Brasher

I am a partner and former global head of Skadden’s Energy and Infrastructure Group. I am a corporate attorney concentrating in M&A, debt and equity financings, joint ventures and development transactions involving energy and infrastructure companies and assets in the United States, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere around the world. I advise strategic and financial investors, developers, borrowers, tax equity investors, funds, lenders and utilities in all phases of solar, wind, geothermal, hydro-electric, battery storage and other renewable energy projects; EV charging infrastructure; lithium projects; gas and thermal power plants; transmission lines; electric distribution assets; LNG, oil and gas processing facilities and pipelines; transportation, communication and water infrastructure facilities; and sports venues.I repeatedly have been recognized as a leading lawyer by publications such as Chambers Global and Chambers USA. I also have been recognized by Latin Lawyer 250 for my work on energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America, and was named Best Lawyers’ 2019 and 2023 Washington, D.C. Project Finance Law Lawyer of the Year.Following graduation from the United States Naval Academy, I served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, serving three years on the USS Harry W. Hill, a navy destroyer, and two years as an economist and operations analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses.In certain jurisdictions, this may be considered attorney advertising.

Experience

1. Partner

   Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates

   Jan 1990 — Present

   Representative transactions include- 8point3 Energy Partners in connection with its $775 million term loan and revolving credit facilities- Bank of New York Mellon in a $400 million tax equity investment in four wind projects- EDF Renewable Energy in the merger of its affiliate and groSolar, a developer and construction contractor of solar projects- Emera Energy in the $223.3 million sale of its 49 percent interest in a 419 MW portfolio of wind projects to First Wind- Enel in the merger of its affiliate and EnerNOC, a leading provider of demand response energy services for utility, commercial and industrial customers; acquisition of eMotorWerks, an internet-of-things platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities; and sale to GE of a 50 percent interest in a 760 MW portfolio of wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric power projects, and related joint ownership arrangements; and- First Solar in connection with the merger of 8point3 Energy Partners, owner of a 964 MW portfolio of solar projects, and a fund managed by Capital Dynamics for $1.7 billion (enterprise value); tax equity investment by JPMorgan, sale to EDF Renewable Energy and construction of the 179 MW Switch Station solar project; sale to a fund managed by Capital Dynamics and construction of the 280 MW California Flats solar project; tax equity investment by GE and Goldman Sachs, sale to a fund managed by Capital Dynamics and construction of the 250 MW Moapa solar project; tax equity financing investment by State Street and construction of the 40 MW Kingbird solar project; formation and $420 million IPO of 8point3 Energy Partners, a joint venture yieldco with SunPower; sale of the 250 MW Silver State South solar generation project to NextEra; sale to MidAmerican Energy and construction of the 550 MW Topaz Solar Farm; and $1.46 billion financing, construction and sale to NextEra and GE of the 550 MW Desert Sunlight solar project.

Education

• United States Naval Academy

  Bachelor of Science - BS

• Harvard Law School

  Doctor of Law - JD

  1990