James Dolphin

James “Jim” Dolphin is a partner in Kirkland’s global environmental practice group. Jim manages environmental matters for private equity and industry clients involved in all types of complex corporate transactions, including the acquisition and divestiture of businesses of all sizes, project development and financing, equity investments, restructurings, and public and private offerings. Jim conducts and coordinates environmental due diligence assessments, retains and supervises consultants and technical experts, counsels clients on regulatory trends and liability and risk allocation issues, drafts and negotiates contracts and agreements, assists in procurement of environmental insurance and other risk-management solutions, and pursues post-closing resolution of environmental issues. Jim has significant experience advising clients on the environmental aspects of energy and infrastructure-focused transactions and projects, including oil, natural gas, and other conventional energy projects, power generation, digital infrastructure projects, and emerging energy technology projects involving carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, solar, energy storage, wind, hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and other low carbon fuels, geothermal, energy efficiency, and environmental credits, attributes, and offsets.