ATTORNEY PROFILE

Mr. Stark is a partner in the Infrastructure Development practice. His experience includes complex project and structured financings, mergers and acquisitions, public-private partnerships, concessions, and all manner of commercial agreements relating to energy and infrastructure. Mr. Stark has worked in 12 U.S. states, more than 16 Latin American countries and numerous other locations worldwide. He has structured and documented complex projects, including the first limited recourse electric sector financings in Kenya and Panama (representing the borrower and lender, respectively) valued in the billions of dollars. He also has worked on a variety of domestic electric generation project financings utilizing conventional and non-conventional fuels (e.g., the two largest waste-tire-to-energy projects in the world and the first gas-fired cogeneration plant located on a New York State Superfund site), as well as a variety of renewable energy (e.g., wind, hydro, solar, biomass, geothermal), cleantech (e.g, a biotechnology that converts fuel gas to biofuel), and carbon credit matters.

Mr. Stark's practice also includes telecommunications and transportation infrastructure transactions (e.g., work on some of the first privately financed toll roads in the United States, Mexico and Brazil) and extends to regulatory matters such as advising a major multinational oil corporation on considerations, strategies and tactics for its entry into the electric power business, and advising numerous clients on the rules and requirements of U.S. and international energy regulatory structures. In addition, he has participated in a variety of contested regulatory, litigation and international arbitration matters concerning energy projects. Notably, he participated in a World Bank mission to advise a Latin American government in connection with the proposed restructuring of its public service infrastructure concessions after the peso crash of 2001.