Partner

Christopher P.B. Erckert

Projects & Infrastructure, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

Christopher is a “detail-oriented attorney who excels at structuring his way around problems and is a nice guy to work with.”
Chambers Global

Overview

Clients turn to Christopher for their most important and complex transactions, as well as for those that require highly efficient execution. 

He has built an active practice representing sponsors in development and both sponsors and financial institutions in corporate financings, project financings, and other financing and restructuring transactions. Christopher also has significant experience in representing buyers, sellers, and financing parties in acquisition and divestiture transactions. 

Christopher’s experience includes a broad range of financing structures, including those provided by commercial banks, multilateral agencies, export and other official creditors, and capital markets (through 144A/Reg S issuances as well as traditional private placements). Christopher’s practice includes a particular emphasis on energy and infrastructure-related work – having advised on the financing, development, and restructuring of thousands of megawatts of conventional and renewable power generation and groundbreaking transactions in water and transport sectors. His experience within the power sector includes generation, transmission and distribution, and he frequently provides counsel on a broad array of other infrastructure and industrial matters, including rigs, LNG facilities, gas pipelines, water treatment facilities, toll roads, port infrastructure, and manufacturing facilities. 

Education

  • Columbia University, JD
    Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • Oglethorpe University, BA, magna cum laude

Admissions

  • New York
  • District of Columbia

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
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