George Humphrey

George Humphrey, who is co-chair of Holland & Knight's Energy Transition Group, is a business attorney in the firm's Houston office. He focuses his practice on U.S. and international project development and finance, strategic joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Humphrey has overseen the development, financing and closing of billions of dollars of energy projects in the U.S. and internationally, including conventional power, wind power, solar power, energy storage, green hydrogen, biofuels, methanol, fertilizer and petrochemical plants, and carbon capture.

Mr. Humphrey's practice encompasses:

• Project development, including the drafting and negotiation of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, balance of plant agreements; turbine supply agreements; build-out agreements; energy hedge agreements; coordination agreements; operation and maintenance (O&M) agreements; shared facilities agreements; product sales agreements; feedstock agreements; tolling agreements; secondment agreements; requests for proposals; and purchase and sale agreements
• Project finance, including the drafting and negotiation of loan agreements and documentation such as guarantees and letters of credit, as well as security, equity contribution, intercreditor, pledge, depository, control and subordination agreements; consents and agreements; opinions; lien waivers; and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings
• Advising on, structuring and documenting multiphase, merchant and other energy projects, as well as identifying and minimizing regulatory, transmission and other risks associated with such energy projects
• Helping developers negotiate with their development partners, lenders, investors, tax equity investors, offtakers, energy hedge providers and contractors, as well as drafting structures to help his clients maximize value from their projects
• Corporate finance transactions, including advising large banks and corporations (both as borrowers and lenders) on multimillion-dollar credit facilities ranging from syndicated, multicurrency and multijurisdictional loans to single-lender seller financing, preparing and negotiating the loan documents, and securing collateral often located across the U.S. and the world
• Intercreditor transactions, including advising clients on complex intercreditor issues such as multiple lien priorities, claimholder voting, standstill periods, cure rights, enforcement actions, payment waterfalls, collateral dispositions, casualty events, rights to amend documents, purchase options and other difficult intercreditor issues
• General corporate practice, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (g., advising clients on the strategic acquisition of other companies and project rights and on the buyout of a development partner's interest)
• Representation of Fortune 500 companies doing business in Latin America (e.g., Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay and Venezuela), including the identifying and minimizing of emerging market risks, structuring and documenting of joint ventures and strategic acquisitions, and the selection, coordination and management of foreign counsel