
Mark Brasher

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Mark represents investors, developers, and other participants in major capital projects, with extensive experience across the spectrum of infrastructure sectors, including power, LNG, data centers, renewable and sustainable energy assets, offshore energy infrastructure, oil and gas, terminals, transport, and water. Mark is recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers USA as a leading practitioner in Projects: LNG.
Infrastructure/Project Development and Finance
Numerous data center developers, AI companies and power developers in aspects of multiple different digital infrastructure projects around the country
Three separate developers in connection with the project development, construction and finance aspects of their Texas Energy Fund In-ERCOT Loan Program projects (ongoing)
Noble Energy, Inc. as project counsel in the development of the Leviathan natural gas field in offshore Israel, including the development, construction and financing of a 2.1 Bcf/d natural gas production platform and associated subsea and tie-back facilities
Genera PR in its successful bid for the award by the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority of the contract to operate, maintain, modernize and decommission Puerto Rico’s approximately 3,600 MW of thermal power generation facilities
Affiliates of Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of a 50 percent interest in the multi-billion dollar South Fork and Revolution Offshore Wind Projects off the East coast of the United States from Eversource Energy, including the negotiation of the joint venture arrangements with Orsted for the construction and operation of the projects and all financing arrangements (IJInvestor Joint Venture of the Year, 2024)
Lithium Americas in the project development, financing, and construction arrangements for the Thacker Pass lithium mine and processing facilities, involving a $2.26 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy’s
New Fortress Energy in the $1.055 billion sale to Excelerate Energy, Inc. of its Jamaican businesses, including an LNG import terminal in Montego Bay, offshore floating storage and regasification terminal in Old Harbour, and 150 MW Combined Heat and Power Plant in Clarendon, along with the associated infrastructure
Texas Central Partners as project counsel in the development of a high speed rail project between Houston and Dallas
Tellurian, Inc. in the negotiation of its EPC contracts with Bechtel for the construction of the ~27.5 MMTPA Driftwood LNG Project
Golden Pass LNG in the restructuring and renegotiation of its EPC arrangements for the completion of the Golden Pass LNG project, following the bankruptcy of Zachry Holdings
Bechtel Corporation in the negotiation of a $9.5 billion pair of EPC contracts with Cheniere Energy for the construction of Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG export project
Gulf Coast Ammonia as project counsel in the development and financing of a world-scale ammonia project in Texas (Proximo’s 2019 North American Petrochemicals Deal of the Year), including negotiation of the EPC contract for the project
Trafigura AG in all aspects of the development and construction of a 50,000-barrel condensate splitter and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage complex and a deep-water, high-volume marine terminal located on the Corpus Christi Ship Channel
New Fortress Energy (NFE) in the development and construction of the first floating LNG facility to use NFE’s pioneering Fast LNG system, combining existing liquefaction technology with modular, portable, offshore platform technology
Targa Resources Corporation in its establishment of a joint venture with WPC Parent, LLC in respect of the 2.5 Bcf/d Blackcomb Pipeline in Texas
Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a 49.9% interest in the ET Rover Pipeline
Riverstone Investment Group in becoming a 50 percent partner with Kinder Morgan in the Utopia Pipeline Project, a common carrier project that will include approximately 215 miles of new pipeline and will connect with an existing pipeline and associated facilities
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of the Red Oak Power Plant, an 805 MW combined cycle, natural gas-fired generation facility
A large international energy company in the formation of a 50/50 joint venture and the development of an ethylene cracker with an estimated capacity of 544,000 metric tons/yr (1.2 billion lbs/year); the project is anticipated to have a capital cost of approximately $1.5 billion
Woodside Energy Group Ltd in connection with its potential participation in the Port Arthur LNG project
ExxonMobil in its investment and joint venture participation in the Golden Pass LNG project
Velocys plc in a joint venture with Waste Management, NRG Energy, and Ventech Engineers International to develop gas-to-liquids plants in the United States and other select geographies
California Resources Corporation in ongoing development of a series of carbon capture and storage projects and other emissions reducing projects, including its Carbon TerraVault projects
Apollo Global Management Inc. in the formation of a joint venture with Johnson Controls to provide sustainability and energy-efficiency facilities and services (including solar power and battery energy storage systems) to North American office and industrial facilities
Buckeye Partners in the development of multiple utility scale solar projects, including engineering, procurement, construction, operating and maintenance arrangements
A large international energy company in the development of a large-scale solar power project supplying its Permian basin operations
SunPower Corporation in connection with contracts for the supply of photovoltaics and associated technology to solar developers in the United States and Australia and the performance of associated O&M services
Private developer in the proposed development, financing, and construction of a large-scale compressed air energy storage facility in North Texas
Private developer in the proposed development, financing, and construction of a 50,000 barrel per day advanced biofuels facility in Louisiana, utilizing natural gas and biomass to produce drop-in transportation fuels
Credentials
- The University of Texas (Austin), LL.M. (Global Energy, International Arbitration & Environmental Law), 2011
- Monash University (Australia), L.L.B., 2006
- Monash University (Australia), B.A., 2006
- Chambers USA, Projects: LNG (Nationwide), 2020–2022 and 2024
- Chambers Global, Projects: LNG (USA), 2021, 2022 and 2025
- Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate: Construction (Including Construction Litigation), 2017–2022, “Next Generation Partner” in Real Estate: Construction (Including Construction Litigation), 2021 and 2022; Finance: Project Finance, 2018–2022; Energy Transactions: Oil & Gas, 2019
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), (Houston), Construction Law, 2025; Project Finance Law, 2025
- Legal 500 Latin America, Projects and Energy, 2019, 2021–2023; Corporate and M&A, 2022 and 2023; City Focus–Houston, 2023
- IFLR1000, 2020–2022
- Victoria, Australia
- Texas
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