Drake Hernandez

Drake Hernandez is a director in BRG’s Energy & Climate practice. He is an economic consultant specializing in complex energy and infrastructure disputes and commercial advisory.

Mr. Hernandez has significant experience in disputes across the global energy value chain, including within the natural gas, electric power, renewable power, liquefied natural gas (LNG), renewable natural gas (RNG), industrial gases, and oil markets. He is regularly engaged in matters involving long-term energy commodity off-take agreements and associated project financing and hedging structures. He has provided expert testimony and expert reports in litigation matters and has advised on over twenty disputes. He has advised law firms representing energy producers, transporters, distributors, developers, industrial gas companies, and government agencies on matters in domestic litigation across the US and Canada, and international arbitrations conducted under International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) rules, and domestic venues including the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and JAMS.

Mr. Hernandez supports clients in evaluating the contractual economics and commercial architecture of global energy and infrastructure projects, with particular emphasis on low-carbon commodity transactions including carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and RNG.

Mr. Hernandez’s work has been published in Applied Energy, the Energy Law Journal, and other industry outlets. He is regularly invited to speak at global forums on low-carbon project commercialization, low-carbon commodity markets, and regulation within the energy sector. He is a senior fellow and member of the Global Research Council at the Tulane Energy Law & Policy Center.