David Lieberman

David Lieberman is a Partner in the Firm's Corporate Department and has extensive experience representing parties on energy and infrastructure M&A and financing transactions.

Former Managing Partner of the Houston Office and former Chair of the Firm's Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group, David was recently recognized as a 2021 “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer and has been previously recognized as an “Energy MVP” by Law360. He has been identified as a leading practitioner by Chambers, The Legal 500, Which Lawyer? and The International Who’s Who of Lawyers.

David has advised numerous strategic and private equity clients in connection with acquisition, financing and disposition of energy and infrastructure assets, including Blackstone, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Global Infrastructure Partners, EQT Infrastructure, Vistra Energy Corp., Digital Bridge, Zayo, Switch and financing parties of NextEra Energy.

• A consortium of international investors including Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield and GIC in the $20.7 billion infrastructure transaction involving ADNOC’s domestic gas pipeline assets
• Digital Bridge and EQT Infrastructure in connection with the $14.3 billion acquisition of the Zayo Group Holdings
• Vistra Energy Corp., the parent company for TXU Energy and Luminant, in its combination with Dynegy Inc.
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of NRG Energy, Inc.’s integrated U.S. renewable energy platform
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Cologix and euNetworks 
• Alinda Capital Partners in the sale of its oil terminal business, Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company to SemGroup Corporation for approximately $2.1 billion
• EQT Infrastructure in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Lumos Networks and Spirit Communications

• Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in North America’s energy infrastructure, in connection with its acquisition of NESCO Rentals from Platinum Equity

• PPL in connection with its $900 million sale of PPL Montana’s hydroelectric power plants to Northwestern Energy and its sale of the Wallingford and University Park gas-fired power plants and its interest in the Safe Harbor hydroelectric power plant to LS Power

• Macquarie Infrastructure Partners in connection with its 2013 sale of Global Tower Partners to American Tower Corporation for $4.8 billion, and Blackstone in connection with the prior 2007 sale of Global Tower Partners to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners for $1.4 billion

• Financing parties in connection with over $10 billion of financings of renewable power assets for subsidiaries of NextEra Energy 

• Blackstone in a number of transactions, including its proposed $4.7 billion acquisition of Dynegy Holdings, the acquisition of the GNPower Mariveles Project, and its acquisition of, and continued investment in, Sithe Global Power

• First Reserve Corp. and Blackstone in their $1 billion acquisition and subsequent initial public offering of Foundation Coal Corporation 

• Energy Capital Partners in its acquisition of the 548 MW Milford power plant

• First Reserve in its investment in GenPower Holdings and subsequent $1.1 billion financing of the Longview coal-fired power plant 

• General Electric Capital Corporation in the acquisition of East Coast Power, which is the owner of the 900 MW Linden co-generation facility 

• Acadia Power Partners in its sale of the Acadia power stations to CLECO and Entergy 

• The initial purchasers and lead arrangers in connection with the $1.2 billion Rule 144A and bank loan financing of Terra Gen’s Alta Wind Projects II–V 

• The lead arrangers in the $750 million construction and term loan financing of MEG’s Christina Lake oil sands project 

• OPTI Canada in the $450 million financing of its interest in the Long Lakes oil sands project

• The underwriters in the $1.8 billion, 1,884 MW Homer City bond financing of EME

• The lenders in the $730 million, 1,048 MW La Paloma financing of PG&E Generating

• The lead arrangers in the $300 million financing of SteelRiver’s acquisition of Peoples National Gas from Dominion

• Credit Suisse in the $167 million project financing of ethanol facilities developed by Abengoa Bioenergy Inc.
• Elektrizitäts der Stadt Zürich as a lessee in a $1.2 billion leveraged lease financing of hydroelectric facilities in Switzerland

• InterGen, Ogden Energy and PMR Resources in a $800 million project financing of an electric generating facility located in The Philippines
• Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Laufenburg AG as lessee in $600 million of leveraged lease financings of hydroelectric facilities in Switzerland 

David joined the Firm in 1989 and was elected to the partnership in 1997. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia University in 1986, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1989 he earned his J.D. with High Honors from Duke Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a staff editor for Law and Contemporary Problems.