July 1, 2025
New York, NY (July 1, 2025) --- Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Blake Winburne has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He is based in the Firm’s Houston office and will serve as Co-Chair of the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice.
Blake is a market-leading transactional attorney who counsels clients on complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investments and joint ventures, as well as the development, structuring and financing of large-scale infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally. He regularly handles transactions involving electric power generation and transmission assets – including fossil fuel-fired, renewable energy and battery storage projects – as well as oil, natural-gas, refined products and alternative fuels transportation and storage facilities, and data centers and other digital infrastructure. Blake is highly recognized in the market, with accolades that include a Band 1 Chambers USA ranking in Power & Renewables: Transactional and recognition as a “Hall of Fame” practitioner in Energy Transactions: Electric Power by Legal 500 USA.
Firm Chairman Matthew Feldman commented: “Blake maintains a sophisticated and broad M&A practice – including significant electric power, oil and gas, and renewables sector work – that brings depth to our growing energy and infrastructure platform. This is a pivotal time in the energy industry, and Blake’s extensive transactional experience will be a valuable resource for our clients.”
Blake represents private equity and credit funds, energy companies, project developers and sponsors, borrowers and debt issuers, investment banks, and other capital providers and investors. Blake was previously a partner at Orrick, where he had various roles leading that firm’s global energy and infrastructure practice.
“Willkie’s global energy and infrastructure platform is one of the most dynamic in the market, with a superb reputation and depth of practice in high-end M&A, financing, commodities and offtakes, restructuring, fund formation, and regulatory matters, all of which are tremendously important in today’s evolving energy landscape,” said Blake. “I look forward to contributing to the expansion of the Firm’s deep transactional capabilities in Texas and throughout the United States and internationally.”
Archie Fallon, Managing Partner of the Houston office, noted: “At a time of remarkable change in the energy sector, Willkie is committed to advising the market’s leading investors, developers and multinational companies on their most strategic transactions and substantial controversies, and has been growing the Firm’s Houston office and broader Texas platform to meet that need. Blake will be a great addition to that platform, integrating with Willkie’s global energy and infrastructure team in New York, Washington DC, Paris and London, in addition to Houston and Dallas.”
Blake is the latest partner addition to Willkie’s steadily growing cross-office energy team. In recent months, Willkie has continued its expansion of the team serving the energy and infrastructure sector, including the additions of capital markets partner Hannah Thompson Frank in Washington DC, and energy private equity partners Larry Hall and Jon Platt in Dallas.
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