Baker Botts L.L.P.

Global Projects

Partner

Department Chair - Global Projects (Washington D.C.)

Practice Group Chair - Power (Firmwide)

Elaine Walsh is a partner in the D.C. office of Baker Botts and leader of its Power and Renewables Practice. For over twenty years, she has counseled power and fuel producers, utilities, wholesale and retail marketers, and private equity on mergers, acquisitions, investments, and project development in the power, renewables, midstream, and mining sectors. Recent deal highlights include representation of a private equity fund on the acquisition of 31 hydroelectric projects, a private equity fund on a joint venture to develop a fuels terminal with on-site generation, and acquisitions and sales of several retail energy businesses and utility scale, commercial, industrial and residential solar portfolios.

Elaine started her career in energy at Citizens Power in Boston, which, at the time was owned by Lehman Brothers, and later acquired by Edison Mission Energy. She was responsible for physical and financial energy trading and marketing transactions and regulatory matters. After several years in-house, she joined an international law firm to work on M&A and commercial transactions in the power and midstream sectors, and then joined Baker Botts in 2012.

District of Columbia Bar

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Energy Bar Association

J.D., Washington University School of Law 1996

M.A., Economics, Washington University 1996