Joe Stefano
PartnerEXPERIENCE
- J.D., Cornell Law School
- B.A., Rutgers University
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
The Legal 500 United States
- Recommended, Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power (2024 – 2025)
- Recommended, Project Finance, (2025)
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Joe Stefano has more than 25 years of experience representing sponsors, project companies, commercial banks, private credit providers, agents, and other transaction parties in connection with the full array of secured and unsecured financing structures, across a wide spectrum of industries.
He is the Head of our US Projects and Energy Finance Group and has particularly extensive experience with the financing of renewable energy, infrastructure (including for data centers and other digital infrastructure assets) and industrial projects and big-ticket asset acquisitions. He often acts on deals that involve financing or credit support provided by export credit, multi-lateral, or other government agencies (including the US Department of Energy). He also has significant experience working on leveraged, asset-based and receivable financings, as well as hybrid debt and equity/joint venture transactions and other special opportunities transactions.
Joe has negotiated, documented and closed a variety of bespoke or "first-of-its-kind" deal structures and his diverse client base has provided him with an invaluable 360-degree perspective on transactional issues.
EXPERIENCE
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
The Legal 500 United States
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