Vanessa Richelle Wilson

Vanessa Wilson focuses on advising project sponsors and developers, private equity investors, commercial banks and institutional lenders and investors in the development, financing, sale or purchase of independent energy projects, including utility-scale solar projects, wind farms, energy storage facilities, biomass projects and gas-fired and coal-fired power generation facilities, natural gas pipelines, methane-capture projects and other energy-based transactions. She has played a significant role in projects located in California, New York, Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Canada.

Vanessa has more than 15 years of experience representing sponsors and developers in connection with project financings, including traditional construction and term loans, 144A offerings and tax equity investments. She also has extensive experience negotiating agreements for the sale or purchase of energy assets and companies. She regularly manages the diligence review of proposed targets and portfolios in connection with such transactions. Vanessa has also spent significant time structuring joint ventures for the development of energy assets.

Representative clients include Exelon Corporation, AES Energy Storage, LLC and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank.

Good to know

Job Types Partner
Areas of Practice 1) Finance, 2) Projects, 3) Energy and Infrastructure and 4) Mergers and Acquisitions
Law School Tulane University Law School (J.D.,1994)
Education University of New Orleans (B.A.)
Bar Member / Association District of Columbia State Bar Associations
Most recent firm DLA Piper
LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-wilson-4b49226a
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