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Eric Pogue is a partner in Willkie’s Dallas and New York offices and serves as the Firm’s Global Chair of Power & Renewable Energy. Eric helps lead the firm’s data center initiative and is also an active participant in the firm’s hybrid capital practice. With experience in the energy sector dating back to the 1990s (beginning at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Eric is widely recognized as a top practitioner for power and renewable energy transactions, focusing on both U.S. and international matters. Eric represents clients in the development, financing and acquisition of various asset types through M&A and joint venture transactions, hybrid capital (including tax equity and preferred equity transactions), debt finance, restructuring, DOE loan guarantees and export-credit agency finance. Eric has led transactions for clients across the energy and infrastructure landscape, including projects involving data centers, solar, on- and off-shore wind, energy storage projects (molecules and electrons), gas-fired and coal-fired generation, nuclear, hydro, biomass, transmission facilities and water utilities. Eric regularly leads, high-profile, complex transactions involving significant capital and top tier market participants including hyperscalers, large commercial banks and private equity funds and global energy companies.
