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Brian Chisling

Brian Chisling

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

Partner in the Firm’s Corporate department and Energy & Infrastructure Group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Advises clients, including utilities, independent power producers, transmission companies, private equity funds, and financing parties with respect to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs and divestitures, securities issuances and financings, and related federal and state regulatory issues in energy and infrastructure matters. In the power industry, he regularly advises strategic utility clients, private equity clients, financing parties and others. Examples of high-profile mergers and other transactions in the power industry include: several acquisitions of large renewable energy portfolios (including Madison Energy Investments, Cypress Creek Renewables and Clearway Energy) by private equity firms, ITC Holdings’ sale to Fortis, JPMorgan's sale of its physical commodities trading businesses, American Electric Power's acquisition of Central and South West Corp., and the acquisition of TXU by a group of private equity firms.

Career

Joined Firm 1994; Partner 2012

Personal

BA and BS, Indiana University (1991); JD, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (1994).

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Energy: Electricity (Transactional) - USA

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Band 3

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Brian Chisling advises energy and infrastructure companies, providers and underwriters on various transactions, including acquisitions and high value public offerings.

Strengths

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  • Brian is very smart. He is good at distilling information and explaining it clearly as well as being incredibly responsive.

    Energy: Electricity (Transactional)Chambers Global Guide

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