Jeff Greenberg is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins. He is currently a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and was formerly Vice Chair of the US Finance Department. Mr. Greenberg represents financial institutions and private equity sponsors, as well as public and private companies, in connection with all phases of the development and financing of power (including gas, coal, wind, solar, landfill gas, biomass and geothermal-fired power plants), oil refinery, ethanol, telecommunications and other infrastructure projects. Mr. Greenberg's experience includes the structuring and negotiation of financing arrangements, project contracts, secured commodity hedge agreements, and extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions of power plants.
Mr. Greenberg was cited as a leading project finance attorney from 2004-2013 and ranked Band 1 for Projects Nationwide in 2013 by Chambers USA. In 2013, Chambers USA also cited Mr. Greenberg as an "excellent and very effective" lawyer specializing in "the development and financing of the full range of energy and natural resource projects." He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2012 IFLR1000 as well as in the 2012 Best Lawyers in America survey in the Project Finance Law category. Mr. Greenberg is a recommended lawyer by Who's Who in Project Finance and has also been recognized as a leading attorney by The Legal 500 US and a recommended lawyer by Practical Law Company.
A sampling of Mr. Greenberg's experience includes the representation of:
- LS Power in connection with multiple acquisitions and financings located throughout the US, including transactions related to the Moss Landing, Arlington Valley, Griffith, Tilton, Doswell, Blythe, Calhoun, Riverside, Cherokee, South Bay, University Park and Safe Harbor projects
- Energy Capital Partners in connection with 2006 Project Finance magazine's "Deal of the Year" - the acquisition and related financing of 14 hydroelectric and coal-fired power plants from Northeast Utilities, as well as other transactions including those related to AES Red Oak, Broad River, Odessa and Empire Generating
- EquiPower in the financing of the Lake Road, Milford, Dighton, Liberty and Masspower projects
- Barclays in the financing of the Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company and Hunt Refining Company
- Credit Agricole in connection with the financing of five wind power projects indirectly owned by Duke Energy Corporation
- Sempra Energy on an on-going basis in connection with the financing of its Copper Mountain 1 and 2 solar projects
- WestLB and Credit Agricole in connection with the financing of the Freeport and Mankato power plants owned by Calpine
- Credit Agricole in connection with the construction financing of the Los Esteros power plant
- Dexia and Natixis in connection with the financing of Invenergy’s Beech Ridge wind power project
- ING Capital and Union Bank, N.A. in connection with the financing of a portfolio of landfill gas power projects owned by Energy Investors Fund
- Union Bank in connection with the financing of a portfolio of landfill gas, biogas and distributed solar power projects owned by Ameresco
- Pacific Ethanol, Inc. in connection with the construction and financing of ethanol production facilities (including the Euromoney's 2007 North America Deal of the Year)
- Gradient Resources Inc. in connection with the construction and cash grant financing for the Patua geothermal project
- UBS, Citibank and Goldman Sachs in connection with the financing of the Longview power project