Bernays T. (Buz) Barclay

Buz Barclay focuses on business transactions primarily in the electric power industry and in infrastructure projects and provides business counsel to a broad array of emerging companies and ventures, primarily in the energy space.  His multi-disciplinary practice includes start-up business counseling and financing, joint ventures, mergers and corporate and asset acquisitions, project development, project restructuring, project finance, private equity and venture capital investing.  He has guided energy companies through initial public offerings in the US and guided US energy companies through IPOs in Canada. Mr. Barclay has experience with fossil fuel technologies, energy efficiency, and metering products and services; compressed air, pumped hydro and other energy storage technologies and projects; wind, solar, biomass and other renewable resources; biofuels; coal-to-liquids; fuel cells; waste-to-energy; district heating and cooling systems; combined (clean) heat and power and distributed generation, and independent transmission projects.

Although his primary focus is in the domestic U.S. market, where he has appeared before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the energy regulatory agencies of more than 30 States, as a project finance banker and as an attorney he has advised developers, lenders and investors from Canada, China, Korea, Pakistan, Siberia, Romania, Mexico, Chile and the Dominican Republic regarding project structuring, project development, and project financing, and he has worked on international project development on site in Canada, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, and Trinidad.

Mr. Barclay has also provided corporate, commercial, and finance counsel to emerging companies and investors in sustainable energy and environmental businesses, including cloud-based home energy managed systems, distributed thermal energy storage for air conditioners, smart meter technologies for energy efficiency and demand-side management, microgrid applications, sustainable cargo transportation products, carbon nanotech R&D, compressed air energy storage companies and projects, marine wave power developers, and many others.