Clients look to David Streicker for counsel on complex energy, data center, transportation, manufacturing and other infrastructure ‌projects throughout the country, relying on his guidance through every phase of development, financing and operation. David provides clients with practical, strategic counsel that integrates regulatory, transactional and environmental considerations to keep projects moving efficiently.  

David advises clients ‌across the energy sector on matters involving project siting‌ and permitting‌, regulatory approvals, ‌acquisitions and due diligence, public‌-private partnerships, tax and project finance incentives, and key commercial contracts such as power purchase ‌(PPAs), off-take, gas supply ‌and operating agreements‌. His experience spans a wide array of assets, including electric generation assets (waste-to-energy, gas, wind, solar‌ and combined heat and ‌power), transmission‌, pipeline and smart-grid infrastructure, battery storage, coal conversion and bio-refining ‌facilities, mining projects‌ and large-scale intermodal and airport ‌developments‌. In addition to his project development experience, David is an experienced litigator, having tried many matters in both state and federal courts, along with administrative hearings, binding arbitrations, mediations‌ and significant matters before the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Prior to joining Polsinelli, David served as general counsel and ethics officer for the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), the State of Illinois' primary economic development agency, where he lead the state's legal efforts to modernize and transform the State’s energy infrastructure, leading investments in the then nascent wind industry and the biofuels sector, and efforts to successfully land the world's first near zero emission coal fired power plant. ‌‌‌‌