Thomas H. Warren

Thomas H. Warren

Partner
Co-Head of Global Energy
Atlanta, United States
+1 404 853 8548

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Tom Warren leads Eversheds Sutherland's Clean Energy Projects team and is a recognized leader in the renewable energy industry.

Tom helps his clients manage risk and strategically negotiate complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, energy commodity transactions and project development and financing.

Tom’s clients are strategic investors, renewable energy project developers and other independent power producers, electric cooperatives, private equity funds and other institutional investors, commodity trading firms, investor-owned utilities and energy consumers.

Tom represents buyers and sellers in business combinations in the energy industry, including acquisitions and dispositions of all types of electric generation and transmission assets, project companies and project portfolios. He advises his clients on mergers, stock and other equity purchases, joint ventures and other structured transactions. Tom counsels clients on all aspects of renewable energy project development, including wind (onshore and offshore), solar, energy storage, hydrogen, geothermal, biomass and hydropower assets. He has extensive experience in negotiating EPC agreements and other procurement and construction agreements. He regularly negotiates PPAs, corporate VPPAs and other structured and financeable long-term power supply and hedging arrangements, energy management agreements, asset management transactions, and trading of physical and financial products under master agreements, including ISDA, EEI, NAESB and WSPP agreements. He also has experience advising on other ESG and sustainability-related projects such as electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management software and solutions.

A long-time champion of renewable energy and sustainability, Tom leads the Eversheds Sutherland (US) multidisciplinary Sustainability Committee, which is committed to the promotion of environmentally friendly business practices.

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  • Representing Brookfield Renewables in the negotiation of a power purchase agreement with the developer of a hydrogen production facility in Pennsylvania.
  • Representing Brookfield Renewable Partners in negotiating a 25-year PPA with three California municipal entities as offtakers, pursuant to which Brookfield would sell energy, capacity, environmental attributes and ancillary services from an approximately 27 MW wind project located in California.
  • Representing Brookfield Renewable Partners in negotiating a new amended and restated power purchase arrangement with Amtrak to supply tracking power for train service in Maryland and Pennsylvania from Brookfield’s Safe Harbor hydroelectric facility.
  • Representing Brookfield Renewable Partners negotiating a 20-year PPA with East Bay Community Energy Authority, a California joint powers authority, pursuant to which Brookfield would sell energy, capacity, environmental attributes and ancillary services from an approximately 80 MW wind project located in California.
  • Representing Brookfield Renewable Partners negotiating a renewable power purchase agreement with a major online retail company, pursuant to which Brookfield will sell energy sourced from renewable and net zero-carbon resources (including hydro and ACS) while guaranteed a certain resource mix of such delivered energy.
  • Represented Wolverine Power Cooperative and Hoosier Energy in the negotiation and execution of a PPA for power from the Palisades Nuclear Power Generating Station. This will be the first recommissioning of a utility-scale nuclear plant in the US.
  • Advised an energy distributor in its acquisition of a 100 percent interest in Silver State North, a 50 MW PV project engineered and constructed by First Solar, Inc.
  • Counsel to major solar EPC contractor on EPC contracts to construct utility-scale solar projects across US.
  • Advising a joint venture to bid into PJM RFP for a transmission project to bring to shore up to 7500 MW of offshore wind generation.
  • Advised a multinational energy company in its contemplated acquisition of a 50% interest in an offshore wind project and related lease from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for the development of offshore wind projects on the east coast of the US, including the vetting of local construction and development requirements linked to state-specific offshore renewable energy credits.
  • Advised Shell New Energies in the 50/50 joint venture with EDF Renewables N.A., which formed Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC, to co-develop OCS-0499 lease area within the New Jersey Wind Energy Area.
  • Represented Oglethorpe Power Corporation, one of the nation’s largest power supply cooperatives, in entering into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire two GE combustion turbine units from Harbert Management Corporation.
  • Represented Enbridge Inc. in negotiating the acquisitions of shovel-ready wind power projects in Texas (249 MW) and West Virginia (103 MW), including Turbine Supply Agreements, BOP contracts, offtake agreements and tax equity financing arrangements.
  • Represented Enbridge in its acquisition of Tri Global Energy (TGE), a leading US renewable project developer, for $270 million. TGE is currently the third largest onshore wind developer in the US, with a development portfolio of wind and solar projects representing more than 7GW of renewable generation capacity.
  • Represented Enbridge in connection with the construction and operation of the 577MW Fox Squirrel solar development in Ohio and the acquisition of the majority interest in the project from EDF Renewables, through a joint venture and tax equity arrangement. We also represented Enbridge on a sale of tax credits from the project under the new tax credit transferability rules.
  • Represented Morgan Stanley in the acquisition of two solar projects totaling 20 MW.
  • Represented Microsoft in its first wind energy secured hedge transaction opposite RES Americas for a utility-scale wind project in ERCOT.
  • Represented Energy Power Partners in the purchase of the renewable energy unit of Talen Energy Corp. The acquired portfolio consisted of 25 renewable energy projects – solar, wind and landfill gas facilities – in four states.
  • Advised Oglethorpe Power Corporation in an acquisition worth more than half-a-billion dollars.
  • Represented WEC Energy Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEC) in the acquisition of an 90% ownership interest in the 250-MW Samson I Solar Energy Center in Texas.
  • Represented a large independent power producer in the Midwest in an incremental sale of 120 MW of capacity for a three-year term to a utility located within the MISO wholesale electric market.
  • Successfully negotiated favorable terms for a global renewable power leader after an opportunity arose to amend and extend existing energy and capacity supply agreements.
  • Facilitated Gas South’s acquisition of the natural gas marketing business of Infinite Energy, resulting in Gas South’s annual revenue doubling to nearly $1 billion and a total of more than 425,000 customers in the southeastern United States.
  • Negotiated a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement for the sale of electricity generated by a hydroelectric facility and a corresponding amount of renewable energy certificates to a behind the meter industrial counterparty.
  • Represented an independent power producer in regards to a one-year purchase and sale agreement for more than 300 MW of capacity within the MISO wholesale electric market.
  • Represented an independent power producer in regards to a 10-year purchase and sale agreement for capacity within the MISO wholesale electric market.
  • Advised a multinational energy transportation company in a cross-border deal in connection with its divestment of a large transmission line in the West through the sale of Canadian and US entities owning relevant portions of the transmission line.
  • Represented Axiall Corporation in a multi-billion dollar joint venture with Lotte Chemical for the development, construction and operation of an ethylene production facility in Louisiana.
  • Advises a US wind energy development development company on the negotiation of power purchase agreements with seven electric utilities.
  • Counsels a company that specializes in the development of behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter solar-plus-battery storage project business.
  • Represents a South Carolina electricity and natural gas provider in its agreement with Clean Energy Collective to develop community solar projects and to provide customer rate credits.
  • Q&A on the impact of the coronavirus on the global clean energy sector in 2020, March 25, 2020
  • Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of energy (2014-2024) and energy: electricity: transactional (2023-2025) and energy and natural resources (2025)
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the areas of energy: transactions (2015); energy: renewable/alternative (2016-2025); energy transactions: conventional power (2017-2023); energy regulatory: oil and gas (2018); energy transactions: electric power (2024-2025) and energy regulation: electric power (2025)
  • Recognized as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer (2023), an independent, client-driven recognition
  • Named to Best Lawyers in the area of energy law (2013-2026)
  • Recognized by Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers in the area of energy (2021-2026)
  • Recognized as BTI's Client Service All-Stars (2022)
  • Named a “Rising Star” by Energy Law360 (2010)
  • Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® “Rising Stars” (2007)
  • Received 1,000 Downloads of ACC Top Ten: Top Ten Consequential Damages Waiver Language Provisions to Consider
  • Member, Contract Drafting Committee, Edison Electric Institute

 

  • Georgia
  • New York
  • J.D., with high honors, Duke University School of Law,

    Senior Editor, Law & Contemporary Problems, Order of the Coif
     

  • B.A., cum laude, Williams College

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Thomas Warren

Partner

Co-Head of Global Energy

+1 404 853 8548
Thomas Warren

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Co-Head of Global Energy

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