Eric Cesnik is counsel in Nixon Peabody’s Project Finance and Public Finance group. Eric is focused on renewable energy, carbon capture and sequestration, and other infrastructure projects. He has a wide variety of experience with domestic and international project finance transactions including power plants, transmission lines, LNG facilities, and greenhouse gas emission reduction projects. Eric’s perspective is informed by his law firm experience and his time working in-house with a private equity firm investing in projects and environmental assets (e.g., CERs and RECs).
I help developers, investors, and lenders structure, negotiate, and execute energy and other infrastructure financings. Some of my recent experience includes:
As a project finance attorney, much of my work involves tapping the expertise of the firm’s wide array of talented attorneys to assist with both the expected and unexpected issues that arise over the course of a transaction.
The energy industry continues to transform. We are lurching toward cleaner fuels and new technologies that change how we generate, distribute, and store power and even how we think about it. Carbon capture and sequestration technologies await large-scale deployment and offer hope for net negative greenhouse gas emissions. New companies are emerging; regulators and many traditional players are reevaluating their roles. No one knows how things will shake out but energy finance is more interesting than ever as it evolves with the industry.
Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
Dartmouth College, A.B., magna cum laude
New York
