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Fritz Lark
Partner
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Practices
Corporate
Debt Finance
Insurance
Joint Ventures
Mergers and Acquisitions
Industries
Data Centers
Digital Infrastructure
Energy
Finance
Manufacturing
Power
Technology
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Overview Admissions & Affiliations Experience News Awards and Community
Practices
Corporate
Debt Finance
Insurance
Joint Ventures
Mergers and Acquisitions
Industries
Data Centers
Digital Infrastructure
Energy
Finance
Manufacturing
Power
Technology

Overview

Frederick (Fritz) J. Lark advises clients on M&A transactions, with a focus on energy, utilities and digital infrastructure. He represents infrastructure funds, utilities and other investors in public and private company mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and debt and hybrid securities issuances among other transactions. Fritz has experience advising clients in transactions across a variety of sectors, including energy, power and utilities, insurance, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals and technology.

Additionally, Fritz advises clients on corporate governance and disclosure issues under the federal securities laws and exchange rules, as well as on general corporate matters.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • New York State Bar
  • American Bar Association - Infrastructure & Regulated Industries Section; Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Committee; Co-Chair
  • New York State Bar Association

Education

  • J.D., Rutgers Law School 1998
    Order of the Coif
  • B.S.E., Accounting & Finance, University of Pennsylvania 1992

Experience

  • Advising infrastructure funds, private equity funds and strategic investors with respect to mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and joint bidding arrangements, as well as structured equity investments and other strategic investments in the infrastructure sector, in particular regarding:
    • electric power, including generation (conventional and renewable), transmission (independent and utility), and retail energy marketing;
    • utilities, including electric, gas and water; and
    • digital infrastructure, including fiber networks, data centers and cell towers.
  • Advising clients with respect to corporate governance matters and transaction structuring, including with respect to considerations relating to regulatory requirements and asset backed financing.
  • Advised Brookfield Infrastructure in its $4.1 billion sale of its wholly owned North America district energy business, Enwave, through two separate transactions which were entered into simultaneously. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and IFM Investors acquired 100% of Enwave’s Canadian business and QIC Limited and Ullico Inc. acquired 100% of Enwave’s U.S. business.
  • Advised Argo Infrastructure Partners LLC in its $514 million acquisition of Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation’s Hawaii businesses, which comprise a combined regulated gas utility and unregulated distributor of propane and several smaller businesses, including controlling interests in two solar facilities.
  • Advised Argo Infrastructure Partners in its $500 million equity investment in TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions, making Argo the single largest equity investor in TierPoint.
  • Advised an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management in a strategic investment with Landmark Infrastructure Partners LP to form a joint venture to invest in core telecommunication, renewable power and other infrastructure assets.

Awards and Community

Recognized in Chambers USA, Nationwide: Energy: Electricity (Transactional), Band 2, 2018-2025

Recognized in Chambers USA, Nationwide: Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional), 2024

Recognized in Chambers Global, Energy: Electricity (Transactional) - USA, Band 4, 2022

Listed in The Legal 500 U.S., Energy Transactions, 2024