Sidley has announced that Michael Pikiel, Jr., Richard Puttré, Tom Millar, and Patrick Selinger have joined the firm’s Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure practice. Mr. Pikiel, Mr. Puttré, Mr. Millar, and Mr. Selinger join the firm’s offices in New York, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Houston, respectively. All four join from Winston Taylor LLP, where Mr. Pikiel was Co-Chair of the Project Finance practice, Co-Chair of the Energy and Infrastructure industry group, and also served on the Executive Committee. Mr. Puttré was Chair of the firm’s Projects – Latin America practice.
Mr. Pikiel, Mr. Puttré, Mr. Millar, and Mr. Selinger have extensive experience in energy, infrastructure, and project finance matters, collectively representing clients across a broad spectrum of complex transactions both domestically and internationally.
Mr. Pikiel, a New York-based partner, brings almost 25 years of experience representing sponsors, developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters in major infrastructure and project finance transactions, including public-private partnerships spanning transportation, energy, and social infrastructure.
Mr. Puttré, a Miami-based partner, counsels financial institutions, project sponsors, and investors on energy and infrastructure assets throughout the United States and Latin America, with significant recent experience in renewable energy financing, toll road projects, and the energy transition sector across multiple U.S. and Latin American jurisdictions. Mr. Puttré is Chambers ranked in Global for Project Finance, USA for Banking & Finance: Transactional, and Latin America for Project Finance.
Mr. Millar, a Washington, D.C.-based partner, handles a broad range of transactional and enforcement matters in the U.S. energy markets. His practice includes multijurisdictional M&A, project development and finance, and market manipulation and enforcement defense before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He is widely recognized for his experience defending clients in some of the most significant power and natural gas market manipulation investigations and enforcement actions brought by FERC, the CFTC, and the DOJ.
Mr. Selinger, a Houston-based partner, advises clients on a wide range of transactions involving energy and infrastructure, with particular experience in renewable energy, conventional power, and transmission. His practice encompasses the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, as well as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. His infrastructure experience includes transactions involving transportation, energy transition, and other essential infrastructure assets. He represents infrastructure funds, private equity investors, developers, and strategic companies in complex investments and transactions.
“We are thrilled to welcome Mike, Patrick, Rich, and Tom to the firm. What makes this group exceptional is their experience in global energy and infrastructure transactions across a wide variety of assets ranging from power plants to pipelines and toll roads,” said Yvette Ostolaza, Chair of Sidley’s Management Committee. “Mike and Patrick’s deep project finance experience, Rich’s extensive experience developing and financing energy and infrastructure assets across the U.S. and Latin America, and Tom’s highly specialized FERC regulatory and enforcement practice, add to our genuinely differentiated platform that few firms can match.”
“The arrival of this group comes at exactly the right moment. Our Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure practice has seen dramatic growth through the first half of 2026 over the same period last year, driven by the continued boom in data center development, the reshoring of manufacturing, and the massive expansion of infrastructure and renewable energy investment,” said Brian Fahrney, Chair of Sidley’s Executive Committee. “Adding Mike, Patrick, Rich, and Tom directly addresses that growth and positions us to capture the full scope of opportunities ahead.”
Other recent additions to Sidley’s leading Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure practice include Simon Barrett and Olivia Matsushita in Tokyo, John Thomas and Sharanyaa Kruti Vasan in New York, as well as Steven Tredennick and Paris Theofanidis in Houston.
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