Brad Warner
Counsel
bwarner@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Renewable Energy
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Solar
- Wind
- Bioenergy
- Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
- Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage
- Structured Credit
- Infrastructure & Transportation
- Energy Transition
- Leveraged Finance
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Energy Storage
- Private Capital
- Energy & Infrastructure Private Equity
Biography
- Advises on project and corporate finance transactions involving a range of energy and infrastructure assets.
- Focuses on renewable energy assets.
Brad focuses his practice on advising a variety of financial institutions, private equity firms, strategic sponsors and developers in connection with all phases of the development and financing of power (including wind, solar and gas-fired power plants), battery storage, transmission assets, LNG and other infrastructure projects. His experience includes a focus on commercial loans, syndicated loans, private placements and other direct lending arrangements.
Representative Work
Renewables
- Represented the sponsor in the acquisition, development and debt and tax equity financing for two 100 MW solar energy projects.
- Represented the note purchasers in connection with the private placement offering of $500 million of senior secured notes for a portfolio of over 370 utility scale and distributed generation renewable energy projects located throughout the U.S.
- Represented the sponsor in the development and tax equity financing of an approximately 180 MW wind energy project in Illinois.
- Represented a tax equity investor for a portfolio of residential rooftop solar systems.
- Represented the senior lenders in connection with the financing of the 163 MW Midway Wind project, serving the high-demand ERCOT market in San Patricio County, Texas, with a long-dated hedge for its power production.
EducationJ.D., Emory University School of Law, with honors
J.D., Emory University School of Law, with honors
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 US, Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, Energy Transactions: Electric Power and Project Finance, 2024.
