Mr. Warner is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department. He heads the firm’s Project Finance Group and is active in the biotechnology and health care practice. For more than 20 years he has been involved in a wide range of U.S. and international financings, debt and equity capital markets transactions and joint ventures, including biotechnology research and development financings and a number of project financings executed simultaneously in the bond and commercial bank markets and involving international agency lenders and political risk insurers. He has recently advised on project financings, structured financings and joint ventures in the telecommunications, oil and gas, petrochemical, minerals and power sectors in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Qatar, Tunisia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia. He has also advised on a number of transnational projects, including undersea fiber optic cables, satellites and pipelines.

He is a member of the New York City Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the American Society of International Law. He served on the board of advisers of the Morin Center for Banking Law Studies at Boston University School of Law from 1990 to 1996. In 1995, he was appointed to the Task Force on Multi-Lateral Development Banks sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Mr. Warner has lectured and written on a number of topics related to project finance, telecommunications, joint ventures and international law.

Mr. Warner joined Davis Polk in 1978 and became a partner in 1986. He practiced in the  London office from 1987 to 1991, where he was involved in the privatizations of British Petroleum, British Steel and the U.K. electricity industry. After he returned from London, he was a principal member of the Davis Polk lawyer team responsible for biotechnology financings and joint ventures.

Mr. Warner graduated, magna cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, from Boston College in 1973 and did graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1974. In 1977, he received his J.D., with honors, from Rutgers University, where he was captain of the Rutgers National Moot Court Team and recipient of the Appellate Advocacy Prize.