Miles L. Plaskett focuses his practice on corporate, municipal and project finance, with an emphasis on renewable energy, infrastructure and development projects in the U.S., the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Caribbean and Latin America. Mr. Plaskett represents corporate, municipal, utilities and private and sovereign investor and sponsor clients. He is also a member of the firm's Cuba Business Group.

Mr. Plaskett is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He is a 1988 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a graduate of Georgetown University.

Brad Thompson’s national practice focuses on complex commercial issues across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on the energy and healthcare industries. He also serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Within the energy industry, Mr. Thompson has extensive experience from refineries to renewable energy facilities, with particular experience in megaproject EPC construction disputes. In the renewable energy industry, he represents clients in a range of energy-related issues involving disputes, transactions and regulatory compliance matters. In the healthcare industry, Mr. Thompson has experience representing healthcare and pharmaceutical providers in various levels of disputes and compliance-related matters.

Mr. Thompson is a 2004 graduate, with honors, of the University of Texas Law School, where he was a member of the Journal of Business Law, and a summa cum laude graduate of Baylor University.

Vijay K. Bange has extensive experience with construction, engineering, and energy disputes of varying sizes and complexity, both in arbitration proceedings and those in the TCC. Furthermore, since the advent of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, Mr. Bange has advised on all aspects of adjudication, and is also an accredited adjudicator on the CIOB and CIC panels. He has considerable experience in acting for and advising both referring and responding parties and adjudicators.

Mr. Bange is a graduate of Birmingham City University. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Diploma in International Arbitration ACIArb) and a member of the Society of Construction Law and TeCSA. He has consistently been acknowledged as a legal expert in the field of construction and engineering law in the Legal 500 and Chambers UK. Mr. Bange is fluent in Punjabi and Hindi.

Brad A. Molotsky practices in the area of real estate law. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Project Development/P3 industry group and as co-head of the firm's Opportunity Zones practice group. Mr. Molotsky’s primary practice is focused in the areas of opportunity zone fund creation and fund deployment, financing, public private partnership (PPP or P-3), real estate joint ventures (including mixed-use and multi-family development), commercial leasing (including a focus in cannabis leasing), and acquisitions and divestitures. He also has deep experience in environmental, social, governance, public company issues such as enterprise risk, internal audit, compensation, as well as energy efficiency, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Mr. Molotsky is a 1989 cum laude graduate of Villanova University Law School, where he was Order of the Coif, and also earned an M.B.A. in Finance from Villanova University. He is a 1986 cum laude graduate of the University of Delaware. Mr. Molotsky has also earned his LEED AP O+M certification.

Phyllis J. Kessler practices in the area of energy law. With a focus on the provision of electricity and gas through cutting-edge renewable technology and applications, Ms. Kessler combines deep knowledge of energy project transactions with extensive experience in state and federal energy regulation and proceedings. Ms. Kessler’s energy project experience includes solar, wind, microgrid, fuel cell, energy storage, cogeneration, biofuel-generation, interconnection, and line extension. She also advises clients on power and gas marketing, submetering, energy efficiency, rate design and other issues related to deregulated energy markets.

Ms. Kessler is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she won the American Jurisprudence Award, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in mathematics.

Michael R. Barz is a corporate and finance attorney with over 25 years’ experience working with major international law firms on significant financing transactions. In particular, Mr. Barz’s practice has focused on domestic and international infrastructure financings utilizing municipal finance, project finance, public-private partnerships, leveraged leasing and other structured financing techniques, including, for example, various forms of Islamic Finance. He also has a focus on sports-related infrastructure and M&A transactions.

Mr. Barz is a 1990 graduate of Fordham University School of Law and a graduate of Columbia University, School of Engineering. He speaks Bahasa Indonesia.

Joseph Williams is the Head (acting) for the Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency Unit in the Office of the Vice President Operations, at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). He joined the Bank in March 2014 and has played a lead role in the development of the Bank’s Energy Sector Policy and Strategy, as Sustainable Energy Advisor and as Programme Manager, SEF/GeoSmart Initiative.

Mr. Williams has over 27 years of experience in the energy sector: Prior to CDB, he was the Manager of the Regional Energy Programme at the CARICOM Secretariat, where inter alia, he led the efforts to establish the CARICOM Energy Policy, which was approved in 2013, to develop a regional strategic framework for implementation of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE). He also worked as Energy Management Consultant in the Caribbean, and at the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (the electric utility in Jamaica), where, inter alia, he was responsible for RE and EE matters.

Mr. Williams holds an MBA (finance and sustainability), an MSc in Engineering Management with emphasis on energy policy and planning and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a Certified Energy Manager.

Bruce Levy has worked in the power and energy industry for more than 35 years. Prior to founding BMR Energy, he was the CEO of International Power’s North American IPP business, responsible for over 7,000 MW of oil, gas, coal, wind, and solar power generation throughout the region.

Before IP, he served as CFO of GPU, Inc., an electric utility company serving over 2 million customers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Bruce also previously served as President and CEO of GPU International, a non-regulated subsidiary of IP that developed, acquired and operated generation and utility systems through the U.S., South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Bruce has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from City College of New York, an MBA in Finance from New York University and is a licensed Professional Engineer.

Peter del Vecchio is an attorney in the Global Practices Group at Baker Botts, concentrating on renewable energy, power and infrastructure projects, and transactions in the energy industry.

Renewable Energy Practice: Mr. del Vecchio's extensive current experience with renewable energy projects includes assisting clients with the acquisition, structuring, development, construction, and operation of greenfield and shovel-ready solar and wind projects, including tax equity transactions, construction and permanent financing, the negotiation and drafting of power purchase agreements, and interconnection arrangements. Mr. del Vecchio also assists clients in bringing utility scale renewable energy projects to commercial operation.
Infrastructure Practice: In the realm of infrastructure practice, Mr. del Vecchio assists clients in sourcing infrastructure funds, pension funds and family offices in the structuring and negotiation of investments and financing of power and infrastructure projects, including electrical transmission systems, water utilities, toll roads, bridges, and tunnels, among others.

Japanese Practice: Mr. del Vecchio practiced law in Tokyo, Japan, as a Registered Legal Foreign Consultant (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi) for nearly ten (10) years and was a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association (Niben). During that time, he represented a broad variety of industrial and commercial enterprises and financial institutions, both foreign and Japanese. Clients included Seiko Instruments, Yokogawa Electric, Michelin Tires, Yokohama Rubber, Riken Corporation, JP Morgan Securities Asia, Lehman Brothers Japan, Nomura Securities, State Street Bank, and Cable & Wireless among others. Mr. del Vecchio is also a frequent lecturer on legal issues to a variety of business associations, including the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ), the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) and theTokyo Bar Association. Mr. del Vecchio was an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Japan, where he taught Intellectual Property and Commercial Transactions. He also wrote books on Japan's “Big Bang” Financial Deregulation published by The Economist and on Trade Secrets Law.