Sam Porter

Sam has 20 years of legal, finance and project development experience across the energy transition and midstream sectors. From working on KKR’s acquisition of TXU as a young M&A attorney in Simpson Thacher’s NYC office; to experiencing firsthand the impact of the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima fallout as a mid-level M&A attorney in Simpson Thacher’s Tokyo office; to working on developing a salt dome near Corpus Christi for natural gas storage in support of LNG exports as general counsel; to developing and tax equity financing hundreds of solar projects at SunPower; to representing the largest renewable energy sponsors in project development, construction financing and tax equity financing transactions in the Project Finance group at Norton Rose Fulbright; Sam has seen the global energy system and the contracts that comprise it from many angles. Sam is a graduate of Columbia Law School, the University of Utah and Stanford’s Inter-University Center for Japanese language studies.