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

Brian’s experience includes advising:

Project Development and Finance

  • FivePoint on approvals for the FivePoint/Newhall Ranch project involving approximately 23,000 residential units and 13 million square feet of commercial development
  • A group of international and US-based banks in an over US$3 billion project financing for Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind farm
  • Scout Clean Energy on the tax equity and debt financing of its 147.5 MW Gonzaga Ridge Wind Project and 50 MW battery storage facility in Merced County, California
  • The note purchasers and letter of credit facility banks on the US$600 million private placement and letter of credit facility for the Gemini Solar + Storage Project

Corporate/M&A

  • Global Infrastructure Partners on the combination of Saavi Energía with Grupo México’s power generation assets to create a power generation platform with 4,510 MW of installed capacity and a development pipeline of approximately 5,000 MW
  • Portland General Electric on its pending US$1.9 billion acquisition of Washington State power generation, transmission, and distribution assets from PacifiCorp
  • Tiger Infrastructure Partners on its growth capital investment in Raptor Waste Solutions
  • EFC Gases & Advanced Materials on its acquisition by Element Solutions Inc.
  • Sun Communities on its US$5.65 billion sale of its Safe Harbor Marinas business to Blackstone Infrastructure
  • Woodside Energy on its US$2.35 billion acquisition of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding B.V., including its lower-carbon ammonia project located in Texas, from OCI
  • Talos Energy on its sale of Talos Low Carbon Solutions LLC, a carbon capture and sequestration business, to TotalEnergies E&P USA, Inc.
  • A Norwegian chemical company on its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Gulf Coast Ammonia’s ammonia production facility in Texas City, Texas

Capital Markets and Financings

  • The initial purchasers in Applied Digital’s US$1.59 billion senior secured notes offering
  • 5E Advanced Materials, a boron and lithium company with US government Critical Infrastructure designation for its 5E Boron Americas Complex, on its funding package and recapitalization transaction

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of California, Irvine School of Law, 2018
    summa cum laude
  • MA in Tourism Administration, George Washington University, 2012
  • BA in International Affairs, George Washington University, 2010