Mark Barnett is a partner at Foley Hoag LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Energy & Climate Group, which he co-founded over two decades ago as one of the first dedicated legal practices supporting innovators, builders, and leading institutions across the full life cycle of the energy transition. Mr. Barnett is a leading advisor to breakthrough energy technology companies and venture investors, as well as developers and financial backers of clean energy infrastructure at scale.

Mr. Barnett’s clean energy and infrastructure project finance and development practice focuses on equity and debt financings, complex joint ventures, and project M&A. His project experience also includes advising developers and financial supports of first-of-a-kind projects on structuring and financing approaches necessary to bring projects to successful completion.

Additionally, Mr. Barnett counsels emerging companies and investors in the ClimateTech sector, as well as various organizations deploying catalytic and impact capital approaches to advance clean energy breakthroughs, climate change mitigation, and adaptation.

Mr. Barnett previously served as vice president of business development and general counsel at Sun Catalytix Corporation, where he helped the company develop key partnerships with the Tata Group and other investors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Barnett worked as counsel at the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (now the Connecticut Green Bank), a quasi-public state agency that supports the development of clean energy technology.

Mr. Barnett received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. in history and environmental studies from Yale College. He and his wife, Katherine, live in Brookline, Massachusetts, where they have raised their three children.