Mr. Campbell is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group.
Mr. Campbell has more than 30 years of experience representing sponsors, lenders, contractors, equipment and fuel suppliers and O&M operators in connection with the development, financing, construction and operation of major infrastructure projects in the United States, Latin America, Africa and Asia, including electric energy generating projects (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydro, diesel, gas and coal), transmission lines (including HVDC), and petrochemical and other major manufacturing facilities.
Mr. Campbell has specialized experience in connection with the development, financing and construction of electric transmission and distribution lines, including HVDC undersea cable projects, in Africa, Latin America and the United States. For example, Mr. Campbell currently represents Tres Amigas LLC, the developer of the Tres Amigas Superstation Transmission Project in New Mexico, a HVDC underground transmission project linking the three major power grids in the United States, the Western Interconnection, Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection.
Mr. Campbell also has significant recent experience in connection with the development of major food and energy production agricultural projects in the United States, Latin America and Africa, including experience with the development, construction and operation of facilities for production of vegetable oils, sugar, bio-fuels and other value-added products connected to agricultural plantations.
Mr. Campbell has advised the Argentine, Ecuadorian, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian and Thai governments with respect to major energy and other national interest infrastructure projects.
Mr. Campbell has been repeatedly chosen by his peers to appear in Institutional Investor’s: Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers as a pre-eminent figure in global project finance law. He is ranked among the top Latin America-wide Corporate/M&A attorneys in the 2012 Chambers Latin America Directory, which describes him as “very objective, business-oriented and brings good value to negotiations.”
Mr. Campbell earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, 1976, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and a member of the Texas Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Arizona, 1969, Phi Beta Kappa.