Mr. Harris is head of the firm's Structured and Project Finance Group. He has significant experience representing clients in domestic and international project finance transactions in a variety of sectors, including numerous projects in the power sector throughout the world. For example, Mr. Harris has worked on independent power project financings in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Africa and Latin America.

Mr. Harris also has worked on financings in many other sectors, including manufacturing (such as paper and pulp, cement and carbon black), telecommunications, mining, railways and toll roads. Mr. Harris has spent, and continues to spend, a substantial part of his time working in the area of debt restructurings, including a wide range of domestic and international restructurings.

• Represented multilateral lenders in connection with the secured financing of the privatization of a cross-border railway in Kenya and Uganda; financing was named by Project Finance magazine the African Transport Deal of the Year for 2006
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with the initial financing and subsequent $550 million debt restructuring of a 586 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant in Pakistan
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with the $436 million overall debt restructuring for a 250 MW power generation plant and power transmission facilities located near Calcutta
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with the secured financing of the privatization of a railway in Tanzania
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with the secured financing of a gold mine in Ghana
• Represented certain leveraged lease equity investor/owner lessor in the Calpine Corporation, et al. bankruptcy cases, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
• Represented certain leveraged lease equity investors/owner lessors in the Mirant Corporation, et al. bankruptcy cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas
• Represented Latin American investment fund in connection with its investment in the subordinated debt and residual equity interests held in a Colombian combined-cycle gas powered power plant company and certain related companies
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with a loan and quasi-equity investment in a Mexican paper products manufacturing company in connection with overall debt refinancing and capital expenditure transaction totaling $464 million
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with the financing of a 43 MW hydroelectric facility in Guatemala
• Represented multilateral and commercial lenders in connection with the financing of a 56 MW combined-cycle power plant in West Africa
• Represented Latin American investment fund in connection with its investment in a Mexico City company specializing in billboard and other advertising in the Metro and airports of Mexico City
• Represented multilateral and commercial lenders in connection with the financing of a 67.5 MW, diesel-powered electric power plant in West Africa
• Represented multilateral lender in connection with the financing of a coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

• International Bar Association
• American Bar Association
  • Subcommittee on International Independent Power Projects, former Co-Chair

• Rated as the "best individual lawyer" in infrastructure project finance based on a market survey of sponsors and bankers, Project Finance magazine (2007)
• "Top Lawyers in the Nation" for Project Finance Law, Best Lawyers in America (2007, 2008 and 2009)
• "Leader and Overseas Expert in Projects: India," Chambers Asia (2008 and 2009)
• "Leader in Projects and Energy: Asia Pacific," Chambers Global (2006, 2007 and 2008)
• "Leader  in Projects," Chambers USA (2006, 2007 and 2008)
• "Leader in Project Finance: Advice to Lenders and Advice to Sponsors category," Legal 500 U.S. Guide (2008)
• "Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer," in projects, Law & Politics magazine (2007 - 2008)
• "America's 500 Leading Legal Dealmakers," Lawdragon magazine (2007)
• "International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers," Who's Who Legal (2007)
• "Pre-eminent Practitioner," Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers, 7th edition (2007)
• "World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers," Project Finance Experts Guide (2006)
• "America’s 500 Leading Lawyers," Lawdragon magazine (2006)
• "Most Highly-Rated Project Finance Lawyers in the World," Project Finance magazine (2006)

1984 - J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
1981 - B.A., cum laude, Williams College

Mr. Harris is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.