Biography
Robert Eberhardt is a project finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Rob’s practice focuses on the North American independent power sector. He has advised private equity sponsors, strategic investors, lenders and commodity hedge providers, and he has provided counsel on project development and finance, tax equity, investments, commodity hedging and project acquisitions and dispositions. He has significant experience with a wide range of transaction types involving offshore and onshore wind, solar, conventional power, storage, transmission and other projects. Rob has been recognized in Chambers USA and Chambers Global, where commentators note that “he has a pragmatic approach to negotiating those must-have points that need to be solved in order to get the deal closed” and that “he is really smart, hard-working and commercially-minded.”