Jerry Bloom

Partner & Chair Energy Practice, Winston & Strawn LLP

Jerry Bloom is chair of the firm’s energy, project development, and project finance practice group and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Bloom focuses his practice on the development, finance, and operation of domestic and international independent energy projects, electric industry restructuring and privatization, and mergers and acquisitions. His expertise in the development and financing of energy infrastructure projects includes renewable, combined heat and power (CHP), and fossil-fuel generation in the United States and abroad. He is active in the development and finance of small and utility scale photovoltaic and thermal solar facilities, as well as wind and biomass facilities.

Mr. Bloom has extensive experience negotiating off-take and power purchase agreements, engineering, procurement, and construction contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, fuel supply agreements, and syndication and agency agreements. He also appears regularly before various local, state, and federal regulatory bodies with jurisdiction over energy infrastructure projects.

Mr. Bloom has been consistently awarded a Tier I ranking in Chambers Global and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, since the inception of its U.S. rankings in 2003.