NEW YORK — Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a leading global law firm serving technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises, announced that Stanford (Stan) Renas has joined its Energy and Climate Solutions (ECS) practice as a partner in New York. Renas brings nearly 30 years of experience advising financial institutions, energy companies, and multinational corporations on structured finance, project finance, derivatives, and trade finance transactions.
“The accelerating energy transition has increased demand for sophisticated legal and financial guidance,” said Doug Clark, Managing Partner at Wilson Sonsini. “Stan’s arrival further strengthens our ability to help clients navigate this evolving landscape. With deep experience in structured finance, derivatives, and commodities—and trusted relationships across the industry—he will be a go-to resource for clients seeking innovative monetization strategies and new approaches to strategic growth.”
Renas joins Wilson Sonsini from Katten Muchin Rosenman, where he advised clients in the energy, oil and gas, and metals sectors on the full lifecycle of financial transactions, from structuring and negotiation through execution. His experience spans borrowing base facilities, renewable energy projects, intermediation facilities, tolling structures, and structured commodity transactions. He is also well known in the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market for his expertise in both broadly syndicated and middle-market structures.
In addition, Renas counsels financial institutions, insurance companies, derivatives dealers, and end users on structured products such as commodity swaps, total return instruments, credit derivatives, and repo contracts. His extensive background includes cross-border receivables securitizations, asset-based finance, factoring, supply chain finance, and trade finance.
“I’m excited to join Wilson Sonsini, a firm that played a key role in establishing the structure now standard for financing U.S. renewable energy projects,” said Renas. “I look forward to helping clients with creative solutions that meet their unique needs—leveraging the firm’s diverse capabilities and deep industry insight to execute high-value financings that advance the transformation of the energy sector.”
Renas has been recognized by Chambers, The Legal 500, and Law360, and is a recipient of the Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University.
