Brad Gathright is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Houston office. Brad focuses his practice on project development and finance matters and general corporate matters in the energy industry, with a particular focus on renewable energy and energy-related mergers, acquisitions and dispositions.
Brad graduated first in his class from Emory University School of Law and was named to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he was a managing editor of the Emory Law Journal.
Brad is admitted to practice in Texas. He is a member of the Houston Bar Association and the Houston Young Lawyers Association.
Representative Experience
- Leading alternative energy company – development and construction of the Flat Ridge Wind Farm in Barber County, Kansas
- Leading alternative energy company – wind power joint ventures and project development, including power purchase agreements, turbine acquisitions, construction contracts, and asset acquisitions and dispositions
- Leading wind energy company – $263 million wind project portfolio bank credit facility (Project Finance magazine's 2006 North American Renewable Energy Deal of the Year)
- Leading alternative energy company – development, acquisition and construction of the 750-megawatt Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in Benton County, Indiana
- Leading wind energy company – development, acquisition and construction of the 200-megawatt Post Oak Wind Power Project in Shackelford and Callahan Counties, Texas
- Leading wind energy company – various aspects of the acquisition, construction, development, and operation and management of several wind facilities
- Leading wind energy company – sale of the company in 2007
- Project company and global power developer – various aspects of the development and financing of the La Rosita I and II power projects, a 1,060-megawatt gas-fired generating facility located in Mexicali, Mexico
- Offshore drilling company – intracompany transfers of offshore drilling rigs flagged in the United States, Panama and Vanuatu
- Leading energy investment firm – investment in a 1.4-gigawatt portfolio of power generation facilities located throughout Texas
- Leading energy investment firm – investment in various infrastructure assets in the Gulf of Mexico
- Power generation company – strategic corporate reorganization and preferred equity issuance
- Ethanol project developer – various project development activities in Latin America
- Refinery services provider – joint venture based in Trinidad & Tobago to provide refinery turnaround services in the Caribbean
- Various borrowers – several secured credit facilities for project clients in the energy industry
- Various project developers and financial investors – bids to acquire interests in various assets, including gas- and coal-fired facilities, solar fields, landfill gas-to-energy projects and a retail energy business.
Education
- Emory University, School of Law, J.D. (with high honors), 2005
- Rice University, B.A. (cum laude), 2002
