Carleigh Rodriguez

Carleigh Rodriquez is Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice. Carleigh advises private equity and corporate clients on environmental issues arising in the full array of commercial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, securities and financing transactions, bankruptcies and restructurings, among others. Her work extends across a broad range of U.S. and international industries, from real estate, technology and commercial, to energy, infrastructure, waste, chemicals, manufacturing and other industrials. In the transactional context, Carleigh identifies, evaluates and manages environmental liabilities and risk, including managing environmental due diligence and consultants, negotiating environmental indemnities and other contractual language and procuring environmental insurance, and coordinates environmental regulatory approvals. She also provides pre-deal counseling and manages post-closing resolution of environmental issues. Carleigh provides practical and commercial advice for managing environmental liabilities and risks.  

Carleigh is highly ranked by Chambers in Environmental: Mainly Transactional. Clients describe her as "very talented, has broad breadth of knowledge and a real science background" and note that she is "a future star."

Notable experience includes advising:

• Teleflex Incorporated in the sale of its OEM business and pending sale of its Acute Care and Interventional Urology businesses
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its lead investment in, and financing of, the Delfin LNG Project, the first floating LNG facility in the United States
• TPG in its acquisition of Waste Eliminator and Liberty Waste Solutions
• I Squared Capital in its acquisition of Milestone Environmental
• Amneal Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Kashiv BioSciences
• Manulife Infrastructure Fund III and its affiliates in its partnership with Portland General Electric Company to acquire select Washington state generation, transmission and electric utility operations from PacifiCorp
• Underwriters in connection with the public offering of stock of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
• EQT in its joint venture with Americold Realty Trust, Inc.
• Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. in its notes offering
• TPG Rise Climate in its investment in Pike Corporation

Prior to her career in law, Carleigh spent several years advising on federal and state coastal and ocean management and policy matters with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Carleigh received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2013, cum laude, where she was Managing Editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. She received her M.E.M. in Coastal Environmental Management from Duke University in 2004 and her B.A. in Biology & Environmental Studies from Vanderbilt University in 2000. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.