Gregg W. Harris

Partner

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

Gregg W. Harris

Washington, DC

T:+1 202 662 4694

F:+1 202 662 4643

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Gregg Harris is a member of the Global Executive Committee.

He has significant experience representing clients in domestic and international project finance transactions in a variety of sectors, including numerous projects in the power sector throughout the world. For example, Gregg has worked on independent power project financings in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Africa and Latin America.

Gregg also has worked on financings in many other sectors, including manufacturing (such as paper and pulp, cement and carbon black), telecommunications, mining, railways and toll roads. Gregg has spent, and continues to spend, a substantial part of his time working in the area of debt restructurings, including a wide range of domestic and international restructurings.

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  • Education

    1984 - JD, Northwestern University School of Law
    1981 - BA, cum laude, Williams College

    Gregg is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.

  • Representative experience
    • Represented multilateral lenders in connection with the secured financing of the privatization of a cross-border railway in Kenya and Uganda; financing was named by Project Finance magazine the African Transport Deal of the Year for 2006
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with the initial financing and subsequent $550 million debt restructuring of a 586 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant in Pakistan
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with the $436 million overall debt restructuring for a 250 MW power generation plant and power transmission facilities located near Calcutta
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with the secured financing of the privatization of a railway in Tanzania
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with the secured financing of a gold mine in Ghana
    • Represented certain leveraged lease equity investor/owner lessor in the Calpine Corporation, et al. bankruptcy cases, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
    • Represented certain leveraged lease equity investors/owner lessors in the Mirant Corporation, et al. bankruptcy cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas
    • Represented Latin American investment fund in connection with its investment in the subordinated debt and residual equity interests held in a Colombian combined-cycle gas powered power plant company and certain related companies
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with a loan and quasi-equity investment in a Mexican paper products manufacturing company in connection with overall debt refinancing and capital expenditure transaction totaling $464 million
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with the financing of a 43 MW hydroelectric facility in Guatemala
    • Represented multilateral and commercial lenders in connection with the financing of a 56 MW combined-cycle power plant in West Africa
    • Represented Latin American investment fund in connection with its investment in a Mexico City company specializing in billboard and other advertising in the Metro and airports of Mexico City
    • Represented multilateral and commercial lenders in connection with the financing of a 67.5 MW, diesel-powered electric power plant in West Africa
    • Represented multilateral lender in connection with the financing of a coal-fired power plant in Indonesia
  • Professional activities
    • International Bar Association
    • American Bar Association
      • Subcommittee on International Independent Power Projects, former Co-Chair
  • Professional honors
    • "Top Attorneys in Washington, D.C.," Washington Post Magazine, April 2013
    • "Energy and Natural Resource Lawyer," Expert Guides (2013)
    • "World's Leading Attorney - Banking Finance and Transactions," Expert Guides (2012)
    • "World's Leading Energy Lawyer - Transactions," Guide to the World's Leading Energy Lawyers (2012)
    • "Outstanding practitioner in the U.S.," Guide to the World's Leading Energy Attorneys (2012)
    • "Washington D.C. & Baltimore's Top Rated Lawyers," LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (2012)
    • "Recommended Lawyer in Energy: Transactions," Legal 500 United States (2012)
    • "Recommended Lawyer in Project Finance," Legal 500 United States (2013)
    • "The International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers," Who's Who Legal (2012)
    • "Leader in Projects," Chambers USA (2013)
    • "Leader in Projects: USA," Chambers Global (2010, 2012, 2013)
    • "Leader in Projects: India," Chambers Global (2012)
    • "Leader in Projects - Power: USA," Chambers Global (2010)
    • "Energy and Natural Resource Lawyer," Expert Guides (2010)
    • "Banking Finance and Transactional," Expert Guides (2012)
    • "Project Finance," Expert Guides (2011)
    •  Recognized as top practitioner in Project Finance - The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (2010)
    • "Pre-eminent Practitioner," Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers (2009, 2011)
    • "Top Lawyers in the Nation" for Project Finance Law, The Best Lawyers in America (2007 - 2013)
    • "Leader and Overseas Expert in Projects: India," Chambers Asia (2008 - 2011)
    • "One of World's leading lawyers in Energy and Natural Resources," Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers (2010)
    • "Leader in Projects and Energy: Asia Pacific," Chambers Global (2006 - 2008)
    • "Leader  in Projects," Chambers USA (2006 - 2008, 2011, 2012)
    • "Leader in Project Finance: Advice to Lenders and Advice to Sponsors category," Legal 500 U.S. Guide (2008)
    • "Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer," Projects, Thomson Reuters (2007 - 2013)
    • Rated as the "Best Individual Lawyer" in infrastructure project finance based on a market survey of sponsors and bankers, Project Finance magazine (2007)
    • "America's 500 Leading Legal Dealmakers," Lawdragon magazine (2007)
    • "International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers," Who's Who Legal (2007)
    • "Pre-eminent Practitioner," Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers (2007)
    • "World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers," Project Finance Experts Guide (2006)
    • "America's 500 Leading Lawyers," Lawdragon magazine (2006)
    • "Most Highly-Rated Project Finance Lawyers in the World," Project Finance magazine (2006)
  • Licenses
    • Washington D.C. Bar License
    • Illinois State Bar License
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