Carlos Abelardo Moran-Lopez
Carlos Moran advises energy companies, private equity sponsors, and infrastructure investors on complex energy and infrastructure transactions in the United States and Latin America. His practice focuses on project development and financing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic commercial arrangements across conventional and nuclear power, renewable energy, battery storage, upstream and midstream oil and gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and related infrastructure.
Carlos represents clients throughout the investment lifecycle, from structuring and acquisition through development, financing, commercial contracting, and exit.
His US experience includes power generation and project finance, upstream and midstream assets, LNG infrastructure, and renewable energy projects across major US energy markets.
He also has experience in Mexico and Latin America, including transactions involving Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Admitted to practice in both Texas and Mexico and fluent in English and Spanish, Carlos brings particular experience to cross-border transactions involving different legal systems, markets, and business environments.
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Carlos practiced at global law firms in Houston and earlier in his career in Mexico City. He also spent a year on secondment with a London law firm.
- Represented a US power generation company in its sale to a publicly traded energy company for an approximate net purchase price of $26.6 billion
- Represented an international oil and gas company in the cross-border restructuring of its $2.2 billion investment in a Latin American integrated energy joint venture with operations in Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina
- Represented lenders in the $1.075 billion financing for the development of a 1,875 MW natural gas–fueled power generation facility in Ohio
- Represented US and Mexican companies in the acquisition of participating interests in exploration and production blocks in Mexico
- Represented a Mexican oil and gas company in the negotiation of a $1.6 billion risk services agreement with Pemex
- Represented an international gas marketing company in successive rounds of LNG cargo sale and purchase agreements with Pemex and the Comisión Federal de Electricidad, with an aggregate value of approximately $570 million
- Represented a natural gas producer in its $735 million acquisition of upstream and midstream assets in the Appalachian Basin
- Represented a publicly traded oil and gas company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of another publicly traded exploration and production company
- Represented an investment manager in its $390 million acquisition of a Brazil-based offshore oil and gas services provider
- Represented the sponsors of an LNG project in Texas in connection with a minority equity investment by an international engineering and construction company
- Represented a Dominican conglomerate in minority investments in LNG regasification and combined-cycle power businesses in the Dominican Republic and Panama
- Represented an investor in a proposed equity investment in an integrated LNG-to-power project in Central America
- Represented a global investment firm in the acquisition of a 50% stake in a thermal, solar, and hydropower platform in Chile, Colombia, and Panama
- Represented a private equity sponsor in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the cash equity owner of a 157 MW solar and 125 MW BESS project in California
- Represented a private equity sponsor in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the cash equity owner of a 55 MW ITC wind project in Maryland
- Represented sponsors in the construction-phase restructuring of a 396 MW wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Represented a drilling contractor in jack-up rig lease agreements with Pemex with an aggregate deal value of $1.6 billion
- Represented a natural gas producer in compression services and natural gas liquids sale and purchase agreements for a gas project in Peru
- Represented a US power developer in a competitive process for the acquisition of 11 contracted utility-scale solar assets totaling 709 MW across the PJM and SERC markets
- Represented a solar and energy storage technology company in its business combination with a special purpose acquisition company based on a $600 million pre-money equity value
- Represented an international oil and gas company in its proposed acquisition of a non-operated working interest across a portfolio of oil and gas assets in Alaska
- Represented an oil and gas producer in the acquisition of producing properties in Oklahoma and Kansas
- Represented an energy company in an all-stock merger of equals with another publicly traded producer
- Represented a developer in the proposed acquisition of community solar projects in New York
- Represented a private equity firm in its proposed acquisition of an LNG liquefaction and bunkering business in the United States
- Represented a private equity–backed producer in its acquisition of Eagle Ford Shale assets from a publicly traded oil and gas company
- Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, law
- Stockholm University, exchange program
- University of Houston Law Center, LL.M., US law
- University of Nottingham, LL.M., international commercial law
- Texas
- Mexico