プロフィール
Elisabeth Yandell McNeil focuses on energy and infrastructure transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and investments in wind, solar, biomass, and other energy projects and services. She also advises clients on transactions involving clean energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Elisabeth represents a diverse range of U.S. and international clients in the energy sector. Her work encompasses various aspects of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy projects. She has experience handling transactions related to wind, solar, and biomass energy, as well as energy storage and distributed resources.
In addition to her transactional work, Elisabeth advises on matters of corporate governance and emerging growth and venture capital in the energy industry. Her practice also extends to energy finance and the evolving field of sustainability in renewable energy.
Concentrations
- Renewable energy project and portfolio transactions
- Carbon dioxide removals and other sustainability transactions
- Diligence and risk analysis in renewable and sustainability M&A
- Corporate structuring and strategy
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Represented a global technology company in the preparation and negotiation of contracts for the procurement of carbon dioxide removals from a wide variety of nature-based and engineered carbon dioxide removal projects in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. °
- Represented Capital Power Corporation in the acquisition from Atlantic Power Corporation of Frederickson Power L.P., the owner of a 50.15% undivided interest in a 250 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating facility in Frederickson, Washington. °
- Represented Tokyo Gas America Ltd. in the acquisition of Ramsey Energy Holdings LLC from Hecate Energy NAF LLC. °
- Represented Municipality of Anchorage in the US$986 million sale of Municipal Light & Power to Chugach Electric Association, Inc. °
- Represented Gulf Pacific Power, LLC in the acquisition of an indirect 80% cash equity interest in in Rocky Caney Wind, LLC, the owner of a 200 MW wind project in Kansas and a 150 MW wind project in Oklahoma. °
- Represented Gulf Pacific Power, LLC in the acquisition of ownership interests of Sumitomo Corporation of Americas in Desert Sunlight Investment Holdings, LLC, the owner of a 550 MW solar power project in Riverside County, California. °
- Represented ENGIE Cofely Inc. in the acquisition of Systecon, LLC °
- Represented ENGIE Contracting Services LLC in the acquisition of Donnelly Mechanical Corp. °
- Represented ENGIE Contracting Services LLC in the acquisition of Unity International Group, Inc. °
- Represented ENGIE Energy Services Holdings Northeast LLC in the acquisition of subsidiaries of Talen Energy Services Northeast, Inc. °
- Represented ENGIE North America Inc. in the acquisition of OpTerra Energy Group, Inc. °
- Represented GDF SUEZ Energie Services S.A. in the acquisition of Ecova, Inc. °
- Represented TransAlta Corporation in the acquisition from Calpine Wind Holdings, LLC of a portfolio of wind projects located in Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Texas°
- Represented TransAlta Corporation in the acquisition from Rockland Capital of distributed solar power projects in Massachusetts and the 50 MW Lakeswind wind project in Minnesota°
- Represented TransAlta Corporation in the acquisition of a 144 MW wind project in Wyoming from a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC°
- Represented Hancock Natural Resource Group, Inc. and John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.) in its investments in Enviva Wilmington Holdings, LLC and Enviva JV Development Company, LLC°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Yandell McNeil prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
受賞歴・所属団体
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
- Corporate Law, 2021-2025
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023-2025
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Energy Transactions: Electric Power, 2024
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Washington Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2016-2021
- Member, Washington State Bar Association Business Law Section Executive Committee, 2020-Present
- Co-Chair, Business Law Section Partnership and LLC Committee, 2016-Present
- Co-Director, WRISE (Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy), Seattle Chapter, 2018-2020
- Past President, Washington Women Lawyers, 2014-2015
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2014-Present
学歴・資格・言語
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法務博士, cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School
- Order of the Coif
- Member, Wisconsin International Law Journal
- 学士号, magna cum laude, Macalester College
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- French, Fluent