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Cacique Rich-Martinez

Managing Associate

Houston

Cacique drives complex M&A transactions across the energy and digital infrastructure sectors, guiding developers, sponsors and asset owners through acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures from structuring through closing.

He works closely with clients on high-value asset and portfolio transactions across renewable and conventional energy, including deals at the intersection of power, storage and data-driven infrastructure supporting large-scale data center platforms.

He is known for a pragmatic, deal-focused approach that aligns legal execution with commercial objectives and keeps transactions moving efficiently through signing and close.

Prior to joining Orrick, Cacique served a combined 14 years in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve, and is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom.

  • Energy Transition and Renewable Energy

    • Intersect Power in its $4.75 billion sale of data center and energy infrastructure solutions to Alphabet.
    • An international vintage infrastructure core plus fund in the divestiture of a geothermal plant in Nevada.
    • A major energy company in the cash equity sell-down of a 2.4 GW battery storage portfolio with projects in Texas and California.
    • An alternative energy company in a cash equity sell-down of a 2.7 GW portfolio of renewable generation and storage projects to an energy-focused private equity firm.
    • A major energy company in the sale of energy storage units throughout California.
    • A utility in the acquisition of several solar and wind projects in Colorado and Texas.
    • A major technology company in several virtual and physical power purchase agreements, REC agreements, and other long-term offtake contracts for wind and solar in Illinois and Texas.
    • An international energy company in the divestiture of two solar generation plants in Ohio.
    • A solar energy developer in the financing of several solar generation facilities in New York.
    • A propane and distillates distribution and marketing company in a CAD $1.05 billion acquisition of a leading North American low-carbon energy solutions provider of compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen.
    • An electric utility company in the financing of a carbon capture facility in North Dakota.
    • A global energy company with the negotiation of an engineering, procurement and construction agreement in Florida.
    • An alternative energy company in the financing of several wind and solar generation facilities in Texas.  
    • A solar energy developer in the negotiation of a power purchase agreement for the sale of power from a solar power generation facility with storage in California to a utility offtaker.
    • A renewable energy developer in the negotiation of a power purchase agreement for the sale of power from a wind power generation facility with storage in Oregon to a utility offtaker.
    • A renewable energy developer in the negotiation of a power purchase agreement for the sale of power from an energy storage facility in Texas to a utility offtaker.
    • A renewable energy developer in the acquisition of a development-stage solar power generation facility in Colorado.
    • An alternative energy company in the acquisition of several wind and solar generation facilities in Texas and Kansas.
    • A solar energy developer in the financing of several solar generation facilities in Maryland.
    • A renewable energy developer in the negotiation of a power purchase agreement for the sale of power from a solar power generation facility in Indiana.
    • A solar REC commodities trading company in the divestiture of its business to an international environmental commodities trading firm.

    Conventional Energy

    • An energy company in the disposition of an interest in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
    • An energy company in an exchange of upstream U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets and related joint venture and development arrangements.
    • A private equity backed upstream oil and gas company in the divestiture of its assets in the San Juan Basin.
    • A propane and distillates distribution and marketing company in the acquisition of a retail propane and refined fuels business in Virginia.
    • A propane and distillates distribution and marketing company in the acquisition of one of the largest independent propane distribution platforms in the western United States.