Mr. Campbell is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group and the Latin American Practice Group.
Mr. Campbell has more than 30 years of experience representing sponsors, lenders, contractors, equipment and fuel suppliers and O&M operators in connection with the development, financing, construction and operation of major infrastructure projects in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia, including renewable fuels (ethanol and biodiesel), power (wind energy and other renewable energy, hydro, diesel, gas and coal plants), transmission line, telecommunications, water supply, waste treatment, pipeline projects and major manufacturing facilities.
Mr. Campbell has significant recent experience representing clients with respect to LNG production and sales contracts. He is also currently representing clients in connection with the proposed construction and financing of a major oil refinery in the Middle East.
Mr. Campbell also has significant recent experience in connection with the development of renewable fuels projects based on sugar cane, corn and cellulosic feedstocks for ethanol projects and oil-based biodiesel projects. Mr. Campbell has advised clients on the development of more than 20 biofuels projects in the United States, Brazil, Canada and Germany. For example, he currently represents Companhia Nacional De Açúcar E Álcool in a joint venture formed with the St. Elisa Group of Brazil, Riverstone Holdings and others to develop a major sugar and ethanol production facility in Brazil, and Range Fuels, Inc. in the development of the first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plant to be constructed in the United States.
Mr. Campbell has advised the Argentine, Ecuadorian, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian and Thai governments with respect to major energy and other national interest projects.
Mr. Campbell has been nominated by his peers to appear in Institutional Investor’s: Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers as a pre-eminent figure in global project finance law. He is ranked among the top Latin America-wide Corporate/M&A attorneys in the 2012 Chambers Latin America Directory for his “very objective, business-oriented and brings good value to negotiations.”
Mr. Campbell earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, 1976, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and a member of the Texas Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Arizona, 1969, Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Campbell was recently ranked as a leading lawyer in the 2009 Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers.