Mark J. Thurber
Partner
Mark has led and participated in upstream oil and gas transactions throughout his career, including structuring lifting arrangements and related protocols with foreign governments and negotiating operating, development, M&A and marketing agreements with private parties. He has worked on transactions in Nigeria, Tanzania, Côte-d'Ivoire, Benin, Somalia, Egypt, Brazil, Columbia, Indonesia and Pakistan. He has also practiced extensively in the upstream domestic oil and gas industry.
Mark has prepared and negotiated a wide variety of infrastructure-related agreements in the areas of thermal generation, wind farm development, coal to liquids, CO2 and LNG, including construction, equipment purchase, fuel supply and transportation, power purchase, and operation and maintenance agreements. He also has represented a range of development companies in negotiating private equity and debt arrangements at all stages of project development. Mark has also represented a variety of financial institutions, including lenders, investment banks and other capital providers and arrangers, in financing numerous infrastructure projects and acquisitions.
Publications
- "Chain of Fuels" Project Finance Magazine (January 1, 2005)
Events
Professional Recognition
- Profiled in "Leaders in their Field" in Projects by Chambers Global (2012)
- Profiled as one of the leading Energy & Natural Resources and Projects lawyers in Texas (2005-2009) and in the United States (2010-2011), Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers
- The Best Lawyers in America, Energy and Project Finance Law (2006-2012)
- Profiled as one of the leading Project Finance lawyers, The US Legal 500 (2010, 2011)
