Christopher Cross, Co-Chair of New York’s Corporate Department, represents private equity sponsors and strategics in their highest stakes energy and infrastructure transactions. 

Christopher draws on nearly three decades of energy, oil and gas, chemical, and industrial sector experience to guide clients on sophisticated matters involving:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Joint ventures
  • Infrastructure investments and developments
  • Complex commercial transactions

He develops trusted relationships with clients to quickly understand their needs and craft business-focused solutions, including counseling at the board level.

Christopher prioritizes giving back to the community, including serving on the boards of the International Senior Lawyers Project and the Randolph Mountain Club in New Hampshire.

Christopher's experience includes representing:

  • Consolidated Edison, Inc. on the US$6 billion sale of its Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses and subsidiaries to RWE Renewables Americas
  • Fluence Energy, Inc., an AES and Siemens battery storage solutions company, in QIA’s minority investment and its recent initial public offering
  • ConocoPhillips in a joint venture with tax equity funding to sequester refinery CO2 in Permian EOR fields
  • A US utility in a landfill RNG capture and commercialization investment
  • Siemens AG in the GNA 1 and GNA 2 gas-to-power joint ventures with BP and Prumo and multi-tranche financing in Brazil
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in the auction acquisition from affiliates of Kinder Morgan and Brookfield of an interest in the NGPL natural gas pipeline network
  • Sellers Con Edison and Crestwood Energy in the auction sale of Stagecoach Gas Services storage and transportation business to Kinder Morgan
  • Enstructure in the acquisition of Patriot Ports’ marine terminal and logistics businesses
  • ContourGlobal on its acquisition of a 1.5 GW portfolio of operating power plants in the US and Trinidad and Tobago from Western Generation Partners
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in the US$1.01 billion acquisition and restructuring of TC Energy’s 598 MW, 13 site run-of-the-river hydro power portfolio on the Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts
  • Gulf Oil in its sale of five refined product terminals located in Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, and Massachusetts to Global Partner
  • ArcLight in the acquisition and joint venture development of the Kings Quay, Salamanca and Delta House FPSOs and export pipelines
  • Pembina Pipeline in its acquisition of Kinder Morgan Canada, a company that transports petroleum products, and the US portion of the Cochin Pipeline from Kinder Morgan
  • An Asian sovereign investment and energy entity in the negotiation of LNG SPAs and limited partner equity investments in Freeport LNG
  • Infrastructure fund bidders for indirect equity in the Freeport, Golden Pass, and Cheniere LNG export facilities
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in the acquisition of BP’s interests in the Deepwater Perdido Regional Host
  • Energy Transfer Partners in the Rover Natural Gas Pipeline joint venture with Traverse Midstream and the holdco joint venture with The Blackstone Group; the Nederland Orbit ethane and propane storage, processing, pipeline, and export marine terminal joint venture with a Chinese partner; and other development projects with various ETP teams
  • Reliance Industries in the joint venture and capacity arrangements with Enterprise Products Partners for ethane processing, storage, transportation, and marine terminal export
  • ArcLight Capital Partners and Limetree Bay Terminals in the acquisition of the circa 30 million barrel shell capacity liquids storage facility and refinery complex of Hess/PDVSA on St. Croix, USVI and follow-on venture and commercial arrangements with BP, equity investment, debt financing, and operational transactions
  • The shareholders of NET Midstream, a Texas natural gas pipeline company, in a US$2.1 billion sale to NextEra’s YieldCo
  • Antero Resources in acquisitions and joint ventures for natural gas and NGL gathering, fractionation, transportation and marine terminalling, sale, exchange, and marketing of NGLs in multiple markets
  • AMID and ArcLight Capital Partners in the acquisition of liquids and natural gas pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico from BP and the drop-down of multiple pipelines and fractionation facilities in transactions with MLP American Midstream
  • Pertamina in the joint venture and commercial arrangements for the expansion of three refinery and olefin complexes in Indonesia
  • Howard Energy Partners in the equity investment in and joint venture development and financing of the Texas/Mexico Nueva Era Pipeline
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in the acquisition and operation of Associated Asphalt and Axeon Specialty products, two market-leading multi-state asphalt companies
  • WhiteWater Midstream in the joint venture acquisition, development, and mini-perm project financing of the Waha Connector and Aqua Blanca natural gas pipelines and development of gas processing facilities and expansions; sale to First Infrastructure; development and financing of the Whistler Pipeline, BANGL Y-Grade Pipeline, and various development joint ventures
  • Siemens in its equity investments in the Lordstown Energy Center, a FPSO and power plant in Brazil and an offshore wind farm
  • Representation of the Rowan Companies in a jack-up drilling rig joint venture with Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia
  • Fermaca in its joint venture with ONEOK Partners to construct a natural gas pipeline from the Permian Basin in Texas to Mexico, and in the development and financing of four natural gas pipelines in Mexico
  • The sponsors in the acquisition, development, and financing of airport, power generation, and transmission projects in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Columbia University School of Law
  • AB, Dartmouth College