Mark Barnett

Practice Areas

Mark Barnett is co-chair of Foley Hoag’s Energy & Climate Group and the firm’s Business Department. Mark has an extensive business law practice focused on the energy and climate solution sectors, working closely with clients developing innovative technologies and business approaches to solving energy and sustainability challenges, advising emerging and high growth companies in strategic development, financings, acquisitions and industry-specific regulatory matters. Mark also leads the firm’s Energy Project Finance & Development Practice, working with a broad range of developers, project sponsors and investors in this dynamic and growing sector.

Mark advises clean energy project sponsors and developers in all aspects of project development, acquisitions, financings, fund formation, partnerships, joint ventures and regulatory issues. His experience includes tax equity portfolio financings, debt financings (including back leverage transactions), complicated joint ventures, various M&A transactions and innovative financing vehicles. Mark also serves as investor and lender counsel in distributed renewable energy financings. His project finance and development experience spans solar, wind, storage, microgrids, waste-to-energy and other waste to value, innovative wastewater treatment and other clean energy and clean infrastructure projects.

Education: Yale Law School, J.D.; Yale University, B.A.