Bio

John Klusaritz is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where he primarily represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, finance transactions, joint ventures and related complex commercial transactions. He is a member of the firm’s Transactional & Securities Practice as well as the Energy Industry Team. John's clients and the corporate transactions where he has provided representation are in a wide variety of industries including energy, telecommunications and media, technology, government contracting, REITS and construction. With regard to the energy and telecommunications industries, John has worked with clients in these industries for more than 25 years and has significant experience with the legal and business issues unique to these industries. John also has significant relationships with investment banks, private equity funds, family office investor groups and other financial institutions that are involved in financing and merger transactions in the energy and telecommunications industries. In the energy industry, John has represented large electric utilities, private equity funds, financial institutions, power project developers, transmission developers and gas pipeline companies in a wide range of financings (including corporate level debt, project finance, back lever finance and tax equity financings-partnership “flip,” sale/leasebacks), mergers and acquisitions and development transactions. These include acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, finance transactions and other complex commercial arrangements relating to conventional power generation, hydroelectric power, renewable energy (including solar, wind, biomass and fuel cell), transmission, midstream, local gas distribution and gas pipelines. John has represented companies operating in virtually every sector of the communications and related technology industries, including owners and operators of date centers, cellular tower companies, unified communications providers, cloud services providers, other telecom service providers, technology developers and private equity funds and other investor groups.