Biography
Omar’s practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project development, and financings of large-scale energy transition and infrastructure projects. He has experience across hydrogen, carbon capture and storage (CCUS), renewables, and energy storage, and is focused on next-generation carbon-free power, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and fusion. Omar advises on the negotiation of key commercial agreements—including supply, offtake, tolling, interconnection, and procurement arrangements—necessary to advance projects from development through execution.
Omar is recognized by Chambers USA as a “very measured” lawyer with a “high level of legal sophistication.” He is a frequent speaker on energy infrastructure and an active leader within Houston’s civic and industrial communities.
Experience*
Joint Ventures and Project Development
- StratosFuel in its financing and development of a hydrogen mobility fueling project
- Humble Midstream in its joint venture with Enbridge to develop a low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia production and export facility
- Integrated Energy Company in its development of a hydrogen and ammonia production and export facility
- Private equity portfolio company in its development of a series of carbon capture facilities for commonly owned ethanol facilities
- Ethanol plant owner in its entry into a sequestration agreement for on-site carbon capture facilities
- Microgrid operator in its development of a renewable energy powered microgrid for a municipality
- SJ Industries in its joint venture with Captona to acquire and operate two fuel cell energy projects
- Infrastructure operator in its development of facilities to store carbon dioxide captured from amine treaters
- Publicly traded infrastructure operator in negotiations to provide carbon capture and sequestration services to natural gas producers
- The Energy & Minerals Group in joint ventures totaling more than $5 billion, including with Energy Transfer Partners, Regency Energy Partners, and Tailwater Capital
- OGE Energy in its joint venture with CenterPoint and ArcLight to create an $11 billion master limited partnership
- Targa Resources Partners in two joint ventures with Sanchez Energy
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Financings
- Goldman Sachs Alternatives in its $440 million preferred equity investment in BrightNight Power
- Corporate subsidiary of a publicly-held master limited partnership in its acquisition of $50 million investment tax credits generated by a battery energy storage system in Texas
- The Energy and Minerals Group and Vision Blue Resources in their investment in Serra Verde, a Denham Capital portfolio company, that is developing an integrated rare earth element mining and processing operation
- NextEra Energy’s decarbonization venture in its acquisition and financing of multiple data centers
- ESM Acquisition Company in its $300 million public stock offering to seek to acquire a low-carbon energy business
- Hut 8 Corp in its acquisition of Rocky Butte Power from Priority Power Management, LLC
- DT Midstream in multiple acquisitions of infrastructure supporting North American energy and industrial markets totaling $5.7 billion in value
- WhiteHawk Income Corporation in multiple transactions, including its take-private of PHX Minerals and its IPO filing
- Titan Energy in its sale of substantially all its assets through a series of transactions post-chapter 11 restructuring
- Phoenix Park Energy Marketing in its acquisition of Twin Eagle’s energy markets trading business
Omar received his J.D. from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his B.Com. from McGill University.
*Includes matters handled prior to joining Weil.