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Spencer Sinclair

Senior Associate

Houston

Spencer is a seasoned transactional attorney with extensive experience advising clients on strategic matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, and project development, with a focus on the energy, clean tech, and infrastructure sectors.

Spencer is a trusted advisor to a diverse range of clients, including renewable energy developers, private equity investors, multi-national energy companies, and startups, providing expert guidance on complex transactions and helping clients achieve their most important business goals. Known for his strategic insight and practical approach, Spencer delivers tailored solutions that drive value and mitigate risks, ensuring successful outcomes for clients across the full lifecycle of their ventures.

As global energy demand continues to grow amidst an increased focus on decarbonization of the energy industry, Spencer takes pride in working closely with pioneers involved in the energy transition, helping to steer development and investment in solutions such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, ammonia, offshore wind, renewable power generation, energy storage and other exciting technologies that are critical to achieving decarbonization on a global scale.

    • ENGIE North America in a cash equity sell-down of a 2.7 GW portfolio of renewable generation and storage projects to Ares Management Infrastructure Opportunities funds.
    • Ardian in its acquisition of the P3 concessionaire responsible for managing and operating the parking system at The Ohio State University.
    • TotalEnergies in its strategic partnership with Corio Generation and Rise Light & Power to develop Attentive Energy's 3 GW offshore wind project off the coast of New York.
    • A renewable energy developer in its acquisition of a 200 MW early-stage battery storage project.
    • An investment and asset management firm in the sale of utility-scale and C&I solar projects.
    • A global private equity infrastructure fund in the acquisition of a P3 concessionaire for an interstate toll-way infrastructure project.
    • Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment in developing novel financing and ownership structures for direct air capture and EV charging infrastructure.
    • Equinor in its acquisition of a 25% ownership interest in the Bayou Bend carbon capture and sequestration project.
    • Superior Plus in its CAD $1.05 billion acquisition of Certaurus, a leading North American low-carbon energy solutions provider of compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen.
    • A public utility in its acquisition of a utility-scale solar project from a renewable energy developer.
    • EDF Renewables in the sale of a 50% interest in a 450 MW portfolio of wind projects.
    • A leading climate investor in its equity investment in a low-carbon school bus operator.
    • A leading renewable energy developer in a cash equity sell-down and tax equity financing of a portfolio of solar projects.
    • A PE-backed portfolio company in a series of add-on acquisitions to a legal solutions business platform.
    • Superior Plus in its $144 million acquisition of Quarles Petroleum, a propane and refined fuels distribution company.
    • TotalEnergies in the formation of a joint venture with Simply Blue Energy for the development of floating offshore wind projects in the US.
    • A public utility in a build-transfer agreement to repower a utility-scale wind farm.
    • A startup company in developing a strategy for deployment of its proprietary energy storage technology.
    • BlackRock in its equity investment in renewable energy developer National Renewable Solutions.
    • A renewable energy developer in its acquisition of a 160 MW utility-scale solar project.
    • A public utility in its acquisition of a solar project from a renewable energy developer.
    • Occidental Petroleum in its license of direct air capture technology from Carbon Engineering for the development of direct air capture facilities in North America.
    • An environmental services company in its acquisition of an industrial waste treatment facility.