Howard Margulis is a Senior Managing Director and leads the New York office of MaxEn Capital.  Mr. Margulis is a licensed attorney in three (3) states and numerous federal courts and a recognized industry advisor and global financial transaction specialist across the full spectrum of global energy, natural resources, agribusiness and selected technology and infrastructure development deals, including domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, project, corporate and private equity financings and development matters, and competitive markets and technology applications.  Mr. Margulis has experience structuring and negotiating energy, mining, oil and gas, agribusiness, computer technology, telecommunications and other infrastructure transactions, such as acquisitions, project loans, production sharing agreements, offtake agreements, capital market debt facilities, acquisition finance arrangements, private equity financings, structured/asset-backed financings, risk management instruments, hedging and commodity arrangements and infrastructure technology development.  He has particular experience in natural resource transactions as well as alternative energy technology matters, including clean-tech, waste-to-energy and renewable energy opportunities, having negotiated and obtained approval of a power purchase agreement for the first-of-its-kind commercial-scale biomass gasification power plant in the United States, developed the power purchase agreement for the largest proposed solar thermal storage project in the world, completed the investment capital transaction for leading coal-gasification technology for small power production between Chinese state-owned-enterprises and Peabody Energy and acted as lead investment banker in the sale of the a hydropower station system in upstate New York to Hudson Clean Energy Partners.   Howard also led the largest single capital investment into advanced algae-derived biofuels, a USD $90 mm investment into a U.S. algae production technology firm by an Asian petrochemical concern.  Recently, Howard led the negotiations for the sale of the world’s single largest LNG offtake arrangement (USD $ 50 billion) – Chevron’s sale from its tenements in the massive Australia Gorgon Field to Osaka Gas of Japan.  Currently, Howard is acting in several technology and energy/biofuel projects involving ethanol, geothermal energy in Germany, algae-derived nutritional supplements, potash mining, advanced computer and sports/media technology systems and development of greenfield oil and gas resources in Africa. He has developed international transaction expertise across Africa, Latin America, the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union and Asia including private capital, mergers and public offerings.  He has acted for some of the largest power, mining, agriculture, technology development and petroleum companies in the world and maintains a global network of strategic capital and industrial relationships.  He was formerly a member of the Energy Practice Group at Skadden, Arps and other global law firms.  He graduated from Northwestern University (B.A. History, cum laude) and IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., cum laude).  He is a member of the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) and the Executive Board of the America Israel Friendship League and the U.S. China Business Council.