David W. Locascio is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Houston office. David is a member of the Energy & Commodities Advisory Practice Group, and co-chairs the Project Development, Finance and Infrastructure practice.
David has extensive experience in the raising of equity and debt financing for energy, infrastructure and real estate projects, including the negotiation and preparation of joint venture, limited partnership and limited liability agreements, stock and asset purchase agreements, and warrants, options and put/call rights. Energy projects include both conventional and renewable energy projects.
He negotiates and prepares exclusive supply and hedging agreements, master energy trading agreements, interest rate and other hedging agreements. He counsels and represents diverse financial institutions in the negotiation of financial derivative products.
David also represents financial institutions, as lead agent and arranger, in the closing and restructuring of syndicated corporate credit facilities, project loans and structured finance transactions involving energy, infrastructure and real estate assets and companies.
David is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Houston Bar Association. David’s affiliations include State Bar of Texas, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, Real Estate, Trusts and Estates, and Construction Law Sections and Houston Bar Association, Real Estate and Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Sections. He is admitted to practice in Texas.
Representative Experience
Energy/Project Matters
- Representing a major power company in the potential acquisition and development of geothermal projects in Texas.
- Representing a major foreign financial institution in multiple exclusive natural gas and power supply arrangements.
- Represented a major Spanish private equity fund in a joint venture to develop oil and gas assets in the United States.
- Represented a major retail gas provider in an exclusive natural gas supply arrangement.
- Represented a wind developer in negotiating a secured long-term power hedge.
- Represented a private trust in the sale of oil and gas interests in the United States.
- Represented a major Spanish private equity fund in a potential joint venture with a major developer of wind and solar projects in the United States, Europe and Latin America.
- Represented a major Argentine energy company in the restructuring of its United States assets.
- Represented a Fortune 50 U.S. energy company in the divestiture of its oil and gas properties in the Barnett Shale area of north Texas.
- Represented a major Spanish energy company in the acquisition of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas interests.
- Represented a major Spanish energy company in the acquisition of wind power companies with wind projects in Montana, United States and Alberta, Canada.
- Represented a Fortune 50 U.S. energy company in multiple acquisitions of oil and gas properties in the Barnett Shale area of north Texas.
- Represented a Fortune 50 U.S. energy company in the disposition of multiple downstream markets in the United States.
- Represented a major U.S. energy company in a five year all requirements secured natural gas supply facility in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.
- Represented a major U.S. contractor in a joint venture in Mexico for several refinery expansion projects.
- Represented a major U.S. energy company in the development of a power plant and pipeline project in Brazil and Bolivia.
- Represented a private power plant developer in the development of a gas‑fired power plant in California.
Financing/Hedging Matters
- Representing a major foreign financial institution in its tax equity investment in a wind farm in Illinois.
- Represented a renewable energy company in the financing of its biomass project in Texas.
- Represented a major energy company in multiple potential secured oil and gas hedge transactions.
- Representing a major foreign financial institution in its tax equity investment in a wind farm in Utah.
- Represented a major financial institution in secured power hedge transactions for multiple wind farms.
- Represented a lender as arranger and syndication agent in a syndicated project financing for an exploration and production project in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Represented a private equity firm in the project financing of a gas storage project in Mississippi.
- Represented a private equity firm in the project financing of oil and gas interests in Texas and related long-term hedging of production.
- Represented a Fortune 50 U.S. energy company in the project financing of its oil and gas joint venture in Cameroon.
- Represented a Fortune 50 U.S. power company in the securitization of certain receivables in connection with the issuance of bonds secured by such receivables.
- Represented a major financial institution as lead agent in a syndicated credit facility to finance the merger of two publicly-traded companies and one private company.
- Represented a major financial institution as lead agent in syndicated credit facilities in connection with several IPOs.
- Represented a major financial institution as lead agent in a syndicated credit facility for the construction of an indoor waterpark, hotel and convention center complex in Grapevine, Texas.
- Represented a private lender in the securitization of project construction receivables for toll road and refinery construction projects in Mexico.
Infrastructure/Real Estate Matters
- Represented a major infrastructure fund in the acquisition of multiple seaport operating companies and related assets in Florida.
- Represented a Spanish private equity fund in a joint venture to develop water treatment plants in the United States.
- Represented a major Spanish port operator and developer in the potential acquisition and development of terminal facilities in Louisiana, Texas and Oregon.
- Represented a major Spanish private equity fund in a potential joint venture for a major multi-use real estate project in Texas.
- Represented a major Spanish private equity fund in the acquisition and financing of several full-service hotels on the east coast of the United States.
- Represented a major U.S. contractor in a joint venture in Mexico to develop toll roads.
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1989
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., 1984
