Industries
Energy and Infrastructure
Overview
Gibson Dunn is prepared for the energy transition and the emergence of new infrastructure asset classes.
The continued transformation of energy transition and sustainability goals is driving the creation of new energy technologies and infrastructure asset classes including in digital infrastructure, EV charging, battery and energy storage and transmission, hydrogen, biofuels and alternative fuels, low carbon and carbon capture initiatives, smart city initiatives, and the deployment of IoT solutions, among many others.
These new energy and infrastructure asset classes will need a high volume of investment to help bring them to scale quickly. In addition, existing assets will need to be optimized and digitized to drive performance and utilization.
Our lawyers have a wide array of experience across all parts of the energy and infrastructure sector and work seamlessly across offices to provide our clients with industry-specific expertise. The firm has handled energy and infrastructure-related matters involving numerous practice areas, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; debt and equity financing; project development and finance; capital market issuances; joint ventures; fund formation; dispute resolution; commercial arrangements; and all manners of industry-related regulatory and antitrust issues.
Recognized by Law360 as one of its Energy Practices of the Year for 2023 and Transportation Practices of the Year for 2022, the Infrastructure and Energy Group consists of more than 230 lawyers in 18 offices worldwide.
“I rate the team highly in terms of their depth of understanding of the business and knowing what will work and where.”
Chambers Global
Experience
The Infrastructure Practice is known for its innovation in advising on complex domestic and cross-border infrastructure transactions and projects. They bring a deep understanding of the commercial, financial, industrial and political issues that are inherent in the acquisition and disposition of infrastructure assets, and the development, financing, construction and operation of major infrastructure projects, in particular on public-private partnership (PPPs) and sponsor-side representation.
The Oil and Gas Practice advises exploration and production companies, midstream companies, downstream companies, private equity sponsors and other financial institutions in complex transactions across the oil and gas sector. Our practice focuses on complex transactions and matters (domestic and international) from well-head to burner tip, including upstream (onshore and offshore), midstream (gathering, processing, transportation, fractionation, and storage), liquefied natural gas (LNG) and downstream (petrochemicals and refining) assets.
The Power and Renewables Practice advises project developers and independent power producers, major utilities, private equity funds and asset managers, strategic investors, investment banks and other financial institutions, data center investors and other large-scale energy consumers as well as other market participants on the most complex and significant conventional and renewable power projects and transactions in the United States and around the world.
Our practice covers mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments, financings of all types, joint ventures, privatizations, divestures, restructurings, capital markets transactions, project development and other commercial arrangements. We are fluent in all aspects of the power generation, transmission, distribution, storage and marketing businesses as well as energy transition technologies and fuels.
The Energy Regulation and Litigation Practice has litigated some of the highest profile energy cases over the past few years in both federal and state courts, and has deep experience against the handling regulatory, rate case, enforcement and investigation matters, before the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).