Paul Zarnowiecki (’00)

Paul Zarnowiecki is a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, and represents sponsors, investors, utilities and other strategic participants in corporate and project finance transactions, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Transactions on which Mr. Zarnowiecki has advised include the development, financing, acquisition and divestiture of renewable and conventional power projects and other infrastructure assets in a broad range of commercial and corporate transactions. He has served as lead counsel on some of the most innovative and complex U.S. renewable energy transactions in recent years, including Deal of Year projects in both the wind and solar energy sectors, the U.S. Army’s largest renewable energy transaction to date, and the first power purchase agreement for offshore wind energy in the United States.

Mr. Zarnowiecki earned his BA in English and Pyschology from Syracuse in 1996. He went on to earn his JD/MBA from American University’s Kogod School of Business and Washington College of Law.