Mark Weitzel

Mark has more than 25 years of experience in the financing, development, acquisition and sale of energy and infrastructure projects and companies.

• Engagements

  • A global equity fund in the formation of a solar project development platform in the U.S., including negotiation of all venture and funding documents.
  • A European-based global private equity fund in the formation of a venture to develop, fund and own behind-the-meter battery energy storage projects in Canada.
  • A utility affiliate on the tax equity financing of a portfolio of three large utility scale solar projects in the U.S., with a combined value of over US$800 million.
  • A leading residential solar company on the tax equity financing of a portfolio of residential solar projects.
  • A large solar IPP developer on the tax equity financing of multiple solar projects in California, including financing a project with a community choice aggregator offtaker.
  • A global equity fund in the acquisition of a U.S.-based solar development platform company and its pipeline of over 100 solar projects.
  • A leading solar development company in the tax equity financing of a US$350 million solar photovoltaic generating facility in California, named the North American Renewables Deal of the Year by IJGlobal.
  • A leading private equity fund in the tax equity and debt financing of a portfolio of distributed solar generating facilities.
  • A solar development company in raising US$480 million in project equity financing for the largest solar thermal energy project in the United States.
  • A global project development company in the sale of three utility-scale solar generating projects.
  • An electric utility as an investor in the tax equity financing of a major wind facility.
  • A major solar energy company in the structured sale of a utility-scale solar project in Texas to an institutional investor.
  • Large institutional parties in the purchase and disposition of two biomass generating facilities with available federal production tax credits.
  • A private equity fund in the development, debt financing, hedge financing, and equity raise for an 869 MW natural gas-fired electric power plant in Ohio.
  • A private equity fund in the leveraged acquisition of a large renewable energy landfill-gas-to-electricity company owning 17 projects in eight states.
  • A private equity fund in the acquisition of a leading company providing construction and maintenance services on a national basis to the United States electric and gas utility industry.
  • A private equity fund in the acquisition of a controlling interest in a large energy project, and in the investment grade Rule 144A refinancing of the existing debt.
  • A leading power company in the negotiation and sale of preferred equity interests, and the subsequent overall refinancing, of a US$400 million gas-fired generation project.
  • A leading strategic and financial party in an investment in a portfolio of geothermal projects located in the western United States.
  • A private equity fund in the acquisition of an interest in a Latin American power project, and the associated financing of the project.
  • A U.K.-based infrastructure development company in the leveraged purchase of an interest in an offshore privatized electrical generation system.