Walter Alarkon
Counsel
For more than a decade, Walter has worked on the build-out of infrastructure necessary for a sustainable economy. He has represented sponsors, developers and lenders in debt and equity financings of solar, wind, battery storage, renewable natural gas, high-speed fiber internet and public transit projects.
Prior matters involved advising sponsors on construction loans and tax-equity financing for solar project portfolios and on the development loan financing of BESS projects and counseling lenders on the construction financing of a multi-city fiber-to-the-home broadband project portfolio.
Walter was previously at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He also served as a legal fellow and transaction counsel for the non-profit Common Future as it stood up its character-based lending fund to support entrepreneurs in underserved communities.
Before practicing law, Walter worked as a journalist covering the real-world impact of public policy and politics. He was a campaign and economics reporter for The Hill in Washington, DC and a staff writer for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, and he wrote editorials for The Boston Globe. He served as researcher on three best-selling books: The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, by Time reporter Michael Grunwald; Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice, by Boston Globe reporters Scott Helman and Jenna Russell; and The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by New Yorker staff writer David Grann.
He lives in Brooklyn and spends his free time playing tennis, hiking and supporting Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in New York
Education
J.D. Georgetown University Law Center M.S. Columbia University School of Journalism
B.S. Boston College, magna cum laude