Bio

Andrew Schifrin has practiced law for more than 25 years. He focuses his practice on infrastructure and energy-related projects, including project development and finance, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Andrew represents a broad range of industry participants, including investors, developers/sponsors, power plant owners, industrial and commercial concerns, lenders and other financial institutions, energy marketing and management companies, manufacturers, and service providers. He has drafted, negotiated, analyzed, and restructured the full panoply of agreements for projects, including those related to infrastructure and power plant development; mergers and acquisitions; joint ventures and investments; off-take agreements (including project agreements [PPP], wholesale and retail power purchase agreements [PPAs], tolling arrangements, capacity sales agreements, virtual PPAs thermal energy sales and water purchase); operation and maintenance; long-term service agreements; interconnection; fuel supply and storage; transmission; engineering, procurement and construction (EPC); design, build, finance and operation agreements; and other contracts associated with the development, acquisition, servicing and operation of infrastructure projects and electric, thermal, and desalination plants. With respect to power, Andrew has extensive experience with a wide variety of power generation technologies, including gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy, cogeneration, fuel cells, and other renewable and nonrenewable technologies. In recent years, Andrew has assisted clients with their development of numerous renewable energy and battery storage facilities, helping clients with dozens of utility scale facilities