Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Danielle Garbien, a leading renewable energy and energy finance attorney, has joined the Firm as a partner. She is based in the Firm’s New York office.
Danielle has over 20 years of experience advising clients on projects relating to the development, acquisition, financing, disposition, and/or restructuring of renewable energy and infrastructure projects, as well as complex structured commodity and secured lien-based hedging arrangements. With a focus on power, renewable energy, energy transition and battery storage projects, her clients include developers, private equity investors, alternative investment managers, financial institutions and offtakers.
Danielle’s arrival follows several other additions to Willkie’s cross-office energy, commodities and projects team since the start of 2023. A renewable energy team of partners Eric Pogue, Amanda Rosenberg and Samantha Leavitt joined the Firm’s New York and Los Angeles offices in the Fall of 2023. Energy attorneys Thomas McCaffrey, Dale Smith, Sarah McLean, Tony Johnston and Tan Lu have separately joined in Houston, Holt Foster in Dallas, and commodities and energy lawyer Don Macbean in New York, in recent months.
Eric Pogue, Willkie’s Global Chair of Power & Renewable Energy, commented: “The renewables industry is evolving rapidly and Danielle’s substantial experience in and innovative approach to complex renewable energy transactions will be a valuable addition to our growing global team. We are thrilled to welcome her to Willkie.”
Danielle regularly advises clients on the development and negotiation of various agreements involving asset purchases and sales, solar, wind and hydrogen long-term energy purchases, EPC contracts, solar modules, REC purchases, carbon capture and sequestration, energy storage, and structured revenue put and revenue call options for energy and infrastructure projects across the United States. In addition, she advises renewable fuels market clients on structuring environmental products credit agreements relating to low carbon fuel standard credits, carbon capture allowances and regional greenhouse gas initiatives. Danielle has received numerous accolades for her work by legal directories and media outlets. She is an active committee member of the EEI Contract Drafting Committee, the committee that created the EEI Master Power Purchase and Sale Agreement. Danielle was most recently a partner at Bracewell.
Danielle commented: “Willkie’s deep transactional capabilities and significant investment in its global energy, commodities and projects platform are a great fit for my practice, and I am looking forward to working with attorneys across the Firm to further strengthen Willkie’s market-leading work in these industries.”