Jeffrey P. Schroeder

As head of the firm’s energy and infrastructure team, Jeff focuses his practice on domestic and international project finance, including project development and asset, stock and portfolio acquisitions of conventional power and renewable energy assets and companies.

With more than 30 years of experience, Jeff represents clients in all aspects of the development, acquisition, financing and divestiture of conventional power and renewables. Widely recognized for his energy and infrastructure practice, clients praise Jeff for his deep knowledge of the power sector and his ability to “negotiate a deal without the gnashing of teeth” and “make deals happen.” (Chambers USA, 2016) 

Given his deep understanding of energy finance, Jeff provides advice on transactions involving complex financing structures, including Rule 144A offerings, syndicated commercial bank debt, mezzanine debt, tax equity, export credit agency and other government-guaranteed financing and risk insurance programs, and multilateral lending agency programs.

Relevant Experience

• Represented buyers and sells of energy tax credits (ITC and PTC) in various tax credit transfer transactions.
• Represented a utility affiliate in the restructuring and acquisition of a combined heat and power facility that provides electric and thermal energy service to a casino and hotel – entertainment complex.
• Represented tax equity investors in various renewable energy partnership flip transactions on both a single project and portfolio basis across wind, solar, geothermal and BESS facilities. Transactions include:
  • Alta X and XI, Bethel, Briscoe, Buckeye, CalTex, CD4, Centennial I and II, Daggett 3, Deerfield, Deerfield II, Dermott, El Sauz, Gearbox Portfolio, Goldthwaite, Great Western, Green Pastures 1, Green Pastures 2, Gunsight, Hawaii 2.0, High Majestic II, Kelly Creek, Lincoln Land, Miami, Nokota Portfolio, North Valley, Odell, Palmas, Palomino Portfolio, Pine Brooke Portfolio, Prairie Breeze, Prairie Breeze 2 and 3, Rattlesnake, Red Pine, Rock Falls, Rocksprings, Santa Rita, Spring Canyon II and III, Texas Solar Nova, Tungsten, and Wake.
• Represented tax equity investors in re-powering transactions, including Alta Mesa and Mesa, Langford, the Palmwood Portfolio, Shepherds Flat, Steel and Chocton, the Sterling Portfolio and the Topaz Portfolio.
• Represented a utility and unregulated utility affiliate in the development of an “inside-the-fence” energy infrastructure project supplying a new state of the art headquarters and research center.
• Represented a financial institution in the upstream financing of a levered portfolio of operating geothermal projects in the United States.
• Represented a private equity-backed project sponsor in the refinancing of its portfolio of gas-fired power plants located in the Southwestern United States.
• Represented InterGen and its affiliates in the development and financing of the Energia San Luis de Paz power project, located in Guanajuato, Mexico and the parallel development and financing of the Altamira Compression Project, a natural gas compression station located in the Port of Altamira, Mexico.