Mr. Warner is a member of Davis Polk’s Corporate Department. He heads our Project Finance Group and is active in other areas of the credit and structured finance practices, including acquisition finance, restructurings and derivatives. For more than 30 years, he has been involved in a wide range of U.S. and international financings and restructurings, debt and equity capital markets transactions and joint ventures, including a number of project financings executed simultaneously in the bond and commercial bank markets and involving international agency lenders and political risk insurers. Mr. Warner has advised on project financings, in the oil and gas, petrochemical, minerals, transportation, telecommunications and power sectors, among others, in every region of the world.

Mr. Warner graduated, magna cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1973 from Boston College. He became a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1974. In 1977, he received a J.D., with honors, from Rutgers University, where he was captain of the Rutgers National Moot Court Team and recipient of the Appellate Advocacy Prize. He served as a law clerked to the Hon. M.C. Matthes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 1977 to 1978. Mr. Warner joined Davis Polk in 1978 and became a partner in 1986. He practiced in the London office from 1987 to 1991, where he was involved in the privatizations of British Petroleum, British Steel and the U.K. electricity industry.