Alan J. Alexander

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
He is a client's dream, [he] can handle all aspects of a deal on his own, is very efficient and reasonable with his billing, and does a good job of delegating work to members of his team, he has always exceeded expectations, is very smart and is able to convey information in a manner that enables commercial decisions to be made based on his legal advice. – Legal 500 Latin America 2019 Client Quote

He is a client's dream, [he] can handle all aspects of a deal on his own, is very efficient and reasonable with his billing, and does a good job of delegating work to members of his team, he has always exceeded expectations, is very smart and is able to convey information in a manner that enables commercial decisions to be made based on his legal advice. – Legal 500 Latin America 2019 Client Quote
Alan’s practice focuses on project development, project financings and joint ventures. He has experience working with petrochemical companies, midstream developers, exploration and production companies, power developers, project developers and financial investors on complex projects and transactions. In particular, Alan has significant experience in complex energy and infrastructure projects, as well as experience assisting clients in energy transition matters power and data center matters and grid resiliency. Alan also has significant experience advising on energy projects in Latin America.
Alan’s work typically involves the negotiation of joint venture arrangements both within and outside the context of a juridical entity, real property and site control agreements, utility supply agreements, feedstock and offtake agreements, technology license agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, and engineering, procurement and construction contracts. Within this, Alan advises companies at all stages of a project life cycle, from inception through final investment decisions and on to operations and, ultimately, exit.
Experience Highlights
Fortera in its entry into a strategic partnership agreement providing for the development and operation of a first of its kind low-carbon cement plant in order to produce, distribute and sell low-carbon cementitious products, and a pipeline for the development of future plants
OCI Global in all aspects of the development, and subsequent $2.35 billion sale, of its equity interests in a clean ammonia project under construction in Beaumont, Texas to Woodside Energy Group
Mitsubishi Corporation in investment and participation in ExxonMobil’s Low Carbon Hydrogen and Ammonia Project
Infinium in the development of a power-to-liquids eFuels facility in Texas that will convert waste carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into SAF and other low carbon fuels, and in its $75 million project equity investment commitment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst
8 Rivers Capital in its joint venture with ADM to develop the 280 MW Broadwing Clean Energy Complex in Illinois, one of the world’s first zero emissions Allam-Fetvedt cycle power plants, including CO2 storage capabilities
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in connection with a joint venture with QatarEnergy to develop an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas
Gulf Coast Ammonia as project counsel in the development and financing of a world-scale ammonia project in Texas, including the negotiation of a financeable marine terminal services agreement, EPC contract, O&M contracts, feedstock supply agreements, offtake agreements, and site agreements, and also the negotiation of a $574.3 million debt package from a consortium of nine commercial banks (Proximo’s 2019 North American Petrochemicals Deal of the Year)
Energy Transfer in all aspects of the Lake Charles LNG Project with a liquefaction capacity of 16.45 mtpa
New Fortress Energy in a successful bid to conduct the design, engineering, construction, supply, installation, commissioning and testing required to enable power generation units at the San Juan Combined Cycle Power Plant to utilize natural gas
8 Rivers Capital in the development of the Cormorant Clean Energy Project, an ultra-low-carbon ammonia production facility in Port Arthur, Texas, which will be powered by 8 Rivers’ proprietary 8RH2 hydrogen process
Woodside Energy Group Ltd in its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE
Southwest Airlines Co. in its $30 million investment in LanzaJet, Inc., a sustainable aviation fuel technology provider and producer with a patented ethanol-to-SAF technology
Integrated minerals company in the development, construction and financing arrangements for a direct lithium extraction facility where lithium will be extracted from oilfield wastewater (ongoing)
LNG North America in the development of a potential LNG Import Project in Alaska
Fully integrated oil and gas major in a joint venture with a large midstream operator to develop sequestration facilities in Louisiana for the permanent sequestration of CO2 that is gathered from natural gas processing facilities
A private equity-backed fertilizer company in the proposed development and project financing of a fertilizer production facility, including the negotiation of EPC contracts, feedstock supply and transportation agreements, offtake agreements, and the air permit
OCI N.V. in a joint venture with Dakota Gasification Company to form N-7 LLC, a jointly owned company that will market, distribute and sell nitrogen fertilizers, industrial ammonia and diesel exhaust fluid in North America
Jefferson Gulf Coast Energy Partners in the development of the 14 mile Southern Star Pipeline and the 5.8 mile Jefferson Cushing-Permian Basin Crude Connector crude pipeline in the Beaumont, Texas area
A private midstream operating company in four-party joint venture arrangements for the development of a $400 million 67-mile natural gas gathering line in the region overlying the Marcellus Shale
M5 Midstream in all aspects of its joint venture with Indigo Minerals for the development of a natural gas gathering system in the Haynesville Shale
New Fortress Energy in the development of a 2.6 mtpa LNG terminal in Pennsylvania
Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. in connection with various transactions to provide early stage debt and equity development capital to project developers in the petrochemical and midstream space
Jefferson Gulf Coast Energy Partners in a range of matters related to the development of its crude terminal in Beaumont, Texas
Dyno Nobel Inc. in the development of an $850 million anhydrous ammonia plant in Louisiana, including project development arrangements, real estate and environmental matters, and negotiation of CO2 and ammonia offtake agreements
A multinational state-owned entity based in the Middle East in the development and implementation of world-scale facilities, using a patented third-party oxidative coupling of methane process for the production of ethylene
Energy company with credit support arrangements related to expanding pipeline capacity and supplying natural gas for a proposed LNG export terminal
Global energy company in the renegotiation and restructuring of a bareboat charter and O&M agreement for an FPSO on-location in offshore Nigeria
International trading company in the expansion of terminal facilities in the Port of Corpus Christi, including the development of two separate condensate splitter units
Heliogen in an arrangement with Woodside Energy (USA) to jointly market Heliogen’s solar energy technology in Australia for heat, power and possible hydrogen applications and the commercial-scale demonstration deployment at a proposed facility in Mojave, California
Macquarie Capital in the launch of Aerogy, a platform to develop, operate and invest in renewable natural gas infrastructure projects and in the development and financing of Aerogy’s anaerobic digestion based RNG production facility at a leading dairy producer in Wisconsin
Blackstone Credit and ClearGen, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company, in the formation of a strategic partnership between ClearGen and GreenStruxure, a Schneider Electric and Huck Capital joint venture, to develop, own and operate up to $500 million of renewable energy microgrid systems for C&I customers
Monolith Materials in multiple development projects utilizing methane pyrolysis to produce hydrogen and carbon black, and related work involving project structuring, product marketing and tax credit monetization
SunGas Renewables in all aspects of the development and financing of a low carbon methanol production facility near Beaver Lake, Louisiana, including EPC arrangements, CCUS agreements, methanol and CRU offtake agreements, and woody biomass feedstock supply agreements, and debt and equity financing agreements
Long Ridge Energy Terminal, a portfolio company of Fortress Investment Group, in the execution of a definitive agreement for the investment in and development of a low carbon, biodegradable plastics production facility in Hannibal, Ohio with Newlight Technologies
Archaea Energy in connection with its entry into a joint venture with an affiliate of UGI Corporation pursuant to which the parties will develop, construct and operate a landfill gas to renewable natural gas facility in Hegins, Pennsylvania
LNG company in an afforestation development arrangement with a nature-based carbon removal and afforestation company in Louisiana, providing for the reforestation of 3,920 acres of forestland and the generation of associated carbon offsets to be sold with LNG cargoes
Archaea Energy in the formation of a joint venture with a waste management company for the development of landfill gas to renewable natural gas projects at various landfills located in the United States
BioFields SAPI de CV in connection with its joint venture with Kaiima Bio-Agritech for the development of castor seed genetics in Mexico
Private Investment Fund in its $75 million common and preferred equity investment in connection with the development of a high-volume soybean crushing plant in Iowa
AGR Partners in its preferred equity investment in Shell Rock Soy Processing, a high-volume soybean crushing plant in Iowa
Brookfield Renewable Power in its investment of up to $500 million in California Bioenergy, a leading developer of dairy digesters for generating renewable vehicle fuel and electricity
Archaea Energy, an industry-leading RNG producer, in a joint venture with Republic Services Inc., a leader in the environmental services industry, to contribute approximately $1.1 billion over five years in order to develop 39 landfill gas to RNG projects across the U.S.
Blackstone Credit and ClearGen, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company, in the negotiation of a $150 million exclusive financing agreement with Verdant Microgrid, a leading clean energy development company, for the development of renewable microgrid projects for C&I customers
A portfolio company of a large private equity institution in its acquisition of a single-source provider of anaerobic digestion vessels for dairy farm renewable natural gas production from agricultural waste
Private developer as project counsel in all aspects of the development and project financing of a renewable diesel production facility with a nameplate capacity of 100 million gallons annually to be located on the Texas Gulf Coast, including the negotiation of hydrogen supply agreements
Investor in its $75 million investment in a soybean crushing plant in exchange for common and preferred units in the company
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in the approximately $92.5 million acquisition of two generating wind farms with a total combined capacity of 88.6 MW plus a 10 MW solar expansion plant in Mexico
Talos Energy LLC, as member of a consortium and Operator, in its successful bid for two awarded offshore blocks in Mexico’s first hydrocarbons auction and other matters in respect of their operation and joint ownership
Talos Energy in a transaction with Hokchi Energy, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Pan American Energy, to cross assign Talos’ Participating Interest in Block 2 and Hokchi’s Participating Interest in Block 31, both in the Sureste Basin offshore Mexico
California Resources Corporation in the bid process for the farmout of an interest in PEMEX’s Ogarrio Field. Work included (i) analysis and advice regarding the Bidding Guidelines, the License Agreement and the JOA to be entered into with PEMEX and other consortium members; (ii) drafting and analysis of issues in the Joint Study and Bid Agreement, and (iii) advice regarding structuring of investment vehicle to be formed with consortium partner
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in the approximately $176 million acquisition of various renewable power portfolios in Mexico
A Mexican renewable energy company in licensing matters related to a biofuels joint development agreement
Key Energy Services, Inc, in the sale of assets located in Mexico and the disposition of its Mexican business unit
Credentials
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D. cum laude, 2011 (Contributing Editor, The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform; Associate Editor, Michigan Journal of International Law)
- Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey–EGADE, M.B.A., 2006 (Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar 2005–2006)
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., Finance with honors; B.A., English with high honors, 2002 (Phi Beta Kappa)
- Fluent in Spanish
- Ternium, S.A. (NYSE: TX): Multinational, publicly traded, and fully integrated steel company included in the Global 1000 (2006–2008)
- Peace Corps Volunteer, San Pedro Nonualco, El Salvador (2002–2004)
- Chambers Global, Projects (USA), 2025
- Chambers USA, Projects (Nationwide), 2024 and 2025; Construction (Texas), 2024 and 2025
- Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate: Construction (Including Construction Litigation), 2019–2025; Finance: Project Finance, 2020–2023; Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2023
- Legal 500 Latin America, “Rising Star” in Projects and Energy, 2019; “Next Generation Lawyer” in Projects and Energy, 2021–2026; City Focus–Houston, 2023–2025; Corporate and M&A, 2023 and 2024
- Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023–2025
- Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2019–2021
- Legal Media Group’s (Euromoney’s), “Rising Star” in Energy and Natural Resources, 2017–2021
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow, 2018
- Houston Bar Association President’s Award for Outstanding Service as Co-Chair of the LegalLine Committee, 2014 and 2015
- Board of Directors: Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Houston
- Member: Association of International Energy Negotiators (“AIEN”) and AIEN’s Sustainability Taskforce
- Member: Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
- Member: Houston Bar Association (LegalLines Co-Chair)
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- “Alan Alexander, ’11: Building a Lower-Carbon Energy Sector,” Law Quadrangle, Summer 2024
- “Mexican Energy Reform,” Presentation, The University of Michigan Law School, Michigan Energy Law Association, November 2014
- “Mexico’s President Proposes Legislation to Implement Historic Energy Reform,” V&E Energy Update E-communication, May 2014
- “Anatomy of a Deal: Joint Venture Transactions,” Presentation, The University of Michigan Law School, January 2014
- “Current Issues Involving Latin American Upstream M&A,” Bloomberg L. Reps.: Corp. & M&A L., Mar. 19, 2012, at 13 (co-author)
- “Shifting Title and Risk: Islamic Project Finance with Western Partners,” 32 Michigan Journal of International Law 571, May 2011 (Student Note)
- “The Texas Wind Estate: Wind as a Natural Resource and a Severable Property Interest,” 44 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 429, February 2011 (Student Note)
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