Brian McCall advises clients on the environmental and regulatory aspects of complex project development, corporate, and finance matters, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Brian combines substantial experience navigating federal, state, and local permitting and regulatory regimes with a sophisticated transactional background to provide developers, utilities, private equity firms, financial institutions, and corporate clients strategic guidance on major projects and transactions. His project development work spans renewable energy, offshore energy, digital infrastructure, carbon capture and sequestration, transportation, and other major infrastructure.
Brian also regularly advises buyers, sellers, investors, lenders, and other transaction participants on environmental issues and liabilities arising in mergers and acquisitions, financings, and other transactions. His transactional experience spans the energy and infrastructure, industrial, aerospace, consumer, and other sectors.
He advises clients on matters involving the:
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Endangered Species Act (ESA)
- Clean Water Act
- Clean Air Act
- Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
- National Marine Sanctuaries Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act and Underground Injection Control permitting
- Federal Aviation Administration Part 77 requirements
- California Public Utilities Act and proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
- California Low Carbon Fuel Standard