Bio

Jude Leblanc has nearly 25 years of experience structuring, drafting and negotiating complex commercial transactions in the energy and power sectors both domestically and internationally. Jude’s experience includes project development contracts (engineering, procurement and construction – EPC) for major industrial, energy and power facilities and infrastructure projects; large-scale equipment purchase agreements; project & corporate finance and M&A deals; and joint venture and consortium agreements. He has worked on a wide range of projects in the renewable energy (battery storage, solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, renewable natural gas and hydrogen), gas-fired power, nuclear power, mining, oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical, carbon capture and telecommunications industries in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. In addition to structuring transactions and leading negotiations for numerous multi-billion dollar EPC contracts, Jude has extensive experience negotiating large capital supply agreements in the U.S. offshore wind industry with several European suppliers and contractors, power industry (gas turbines) with vendors such as General Electric (GE) and Mitsubishi, nuclear equipment procurements and development agreements with Westinghouse, GE-Hitachi and Toshiba, and petrochemical and oil & gas equipment procurements and technology development agreements with Air Liquide and Air Products, among others. For instance, he negotiated contracts for the development and construction of several power projects with a large domestic utility, which contracts had an aggregate value in excess of over $10 billion. Recently, he also negotiated contracts for the development and construction of two methanol plants with an aggregate value close to $5 billion. Another example of the type of sophisticated projects Jude has led include the structuring and negotiation of collaboration and joint development agreements with several partners and investors for the first NRC-approved small modular nuclear reactor technology and the negotiation of partnering agreements with its first commercial customer. Jude’s practice has a geographical focus in North America and Latin America, and he has negotiated well over a dozen major transactions in Mexico, as well as deals in all but one South American nation. In addition to large transactions in Colombia and Chile, he has negotiated over 10 major transactions in Argentina and over 6 major transactions in Brazil, including the formation of a joint venture to create a Brazilian engineering and construction company.