
Mary Alexander

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037

Mary advises clients on the federal income tax consequences of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions, with a particular focus on renewable energy deals and structuring for tax credits. She also has extensive experience in capital markets and finance transactions. Her clients are public and private corporations, partnerships, and financial institutions operating at the forefront of global business and development, in industries ranging from renewable energy to branded foods.
Renewables
Continental Resources in its $250 million strategic investment in Summit Carbon Solutions to fund the development and construction of carbon capture, transportation and sequestration infrastructure located in the Midwestern United States with initial capacity of up to 12.0 MMtpa and expansion capabilities up to 20.0 MMtpa
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
Buckeye Partners and Nala Renewables in their acquisition of a majority interest in Swift Current Energy, a leading North American clean energy development and investment platform with a pipeline of over 6 GW of solar, wind and energy storage projects
MN8 Energy (Goldman Sachs Renewable Power) (a $4 billion fund), in its:
- Approximately $350 million acquisition from Marina Energy, a subsidiary of Southern Jersey Industries, of its solar portfolio comprised of 76 distributed solar energy projects with total capacity of 204 MW
- Acquisition of a 142-MW portfolio of solar power generation assets from a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation
- Acquisition of a series of solar projects developed by a major utility company
- Ongoing investments, acquisitions and finance arrangements in renewable energy projects
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Fund of The Carlyle Group in its $150 million commitment to partner with Alchemy Renewable Energy to develop, acquire, finance, and operate solar power generation projects throughout the U.S.
A private equity special situations fund in its:
- Approximately $1 billion back-levered acquisition (by way of a joint venture) of a portfolio of wind and solar assets from a global conglomerate
- Acquisition of interests in 16 wind energy projects through a joint venture with the subsidiary of a global banking institution
- Various acquisitions and divestitures of tax equity and other interests in solar assets
Marathon Petroleum Corporation, the controlling owner of MLPX LP and Andeavor Logistics LP, as special tax counsel in MPLX LP’s $14 billion acquisition of Andeavor Logistics LP, creating a combined midstream and logistics MLP with an estimated $55 billion enterprise value
Talos Energy, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management and Riverstone Holdings, in its $2.5 billion combination with Stone Energy, creating an offshore-focused E&P company
Covey Park Energy in its $2.2 billion sale to Comstock Resources
Lucid Energy Group II in the $1.6 billion sale of the company, an EnCap Flatrock Midstream portfolio company, to a joint venture controlled by investment funds
TransCanada Corporation in the $915 million merger of Columbia Pipeline Partners and Columbia Pipeline Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TransCanada
CryoLife, a leading medical device and tissue processing company, in its $225 million acquisition of JOTEC, a German-based developer of medical devices
Unit Corporation, a diversified, publicly-traded energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploration and production, contract drilling, and midstream services, and its affiliates in connection with its prearranged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases involving the exchange of debt for debt, conversion of debt to equity, and preservation of net operating losses
A national bank (in its role as the agent for a $550 million secured lending facility to an upstream producer) in connection with the producer’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring and emergence in an Up-C structure
Bellatrix Exploration Ltd., a Canadian entity, as lead U.S. counsel in the recapitalization transaction involving the exchange of debt into debt and equity
Initial purchasers in the $1 billion offering of senior notes by Nabors Industries, Inc.
Initial purchasers’ counsel in connection with Transocean Guardian Limited’s private offering of U.S. $750 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2024
U.S.-based industrial conglomerate in counseling with respect to the tax-efficient repatriation of earnings, as well as the federal tax consequences of related reorganization and distribution transactions
Various borrowers and lenders in bankruptcy and other restructuring matters
Various borrowers and lenders on transactions including bank credit facilities, mezzanine financings, project financings, note offerings, tender offers, and syndicated finance
Credentials
- New York University School of Law, LL.M. in taxation, 2011
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2010
- New York University, B.A., Economics magna cum laude, 2007 (Phi Beta Kappa)
- Selected to the Washington, D.C. Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2019 and 2020
- Texas
- District of Columbia
- InsightNovember 21, 2023
V&E Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Update
- InsightSeptember 5, 2023
V&E IRA Update
- InsightAugust 16, 2023
V&E+ Views
- InsightJune 16, 2023
V&E Renewable Energy Update
- InsightJune 16, 2023
V&E Renewable Energy Update
- InsightJune 15, 2023
V&E Renewable Energy Update
- Deals & CasesMay 2, 2023
- InsightNovember 30, 2022
V&E Inflation Reduction Act Update
- Deals & CasesNovember 21, 2022
- Event RecapNovember 9, 2022
- InsightOctober 6, 2022
- Deals & CasesSeptember 29, 2022
- InsightSeptember 2, 2022
Published by Bloomberg Tax on September 1, 2022
- InsightAugust 12, 2022
V&E Energy Update
- Deals & CasesAugust 4, 2022
- Event RecapAugust 4, 2022
- InsightJuly 28, 2022
V&E Energy Update
- Deals & CasesJuly 14, 2022
- Deals & CasesApril 28, 2022
- Deals & CasesMarch 2, 2022
- InsightDecember 20, 2021
V&E Tax Update
- InsightDecember 13, 2021
V&E Tax Update
- InsightNovember 19, 2021
V&E Tax Update
- InsightNovember 2, 2021
V&E Tax Update
- InsightSeptember 13, 2021
- InsightSeptember 7, 2021
Published by Tax Notes Federal, Tax Notes State, Tax Notes International, August 9, 2021
- Deals & CasesAugust 16, 2021
- Deals & CasesAugust 3, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 29, 2021
- InsightJuly 2, 2021
V&E Renewable Energy Update
- InsightJune 30, 2021
V&E Renewable Energy Update
- Deals & CasesJune 24, 2021
- Deals & CasesMay 25, 2021
- Deals & CasesMay 4, 2021
- Deals & CasesApril 15, 2021
- Deals & CasesApril 8, 2021
- InsightApril 5, 2021
- Press ReleaseJanuary 28, 2021
- InsightJanuary 7, 2021
V&E Tax Update
- Deals & CasesJanuary 6, 2021
- InsightDecember 16, 2020
- InsightSeptember 28, 2020
- Event RecapJuly 30, 2020
- “Structuring for Tax Credits: The Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and M&A Considerations,” Dallas Bar Association Tax Section CLE, October 3, 2022 (co-speaker)
- “Structuring for Tax Equity: Credit Basics and M&A Considerations,” Houston Bar Association Taxation Section Monthly CLE, Houston, Texas, May 18, 2022 (co-speaker)
- “Quarantining Carbon Oxide – Structural and Tax Considerations for Carbon Capture Projects,” V&E Energy Series CLE, July 30, 2020 (co-speaker)
- “Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Partnerships,” Tax Executive Institute – Houston Chapter, May 9, 2018 (panelist)
- “Debt Restructuring in a Turbulent Economy,” Tax Executives Institute – Houston Chapter Tax School, Houston, Texas, February 24, 2017
News & Insights
V&E Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Update
V&E IRA Update
V&E+ Views
V&E Renewable Energy Update