
Attorney profile
Cynthia Redwine Martinez
Founder & Principal
A strategic general counsel and executive adviser with deep energy and infrastructure experience, Cynthia advises CEOs and boards, builds legal and compliance functions, and oversees complex transactional and project work.
LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Cynthia Redwine Martinez is a strategic general counsel and executive adviser with extensive experience helping energy companies grow, execute complex transactions and navigate high-stakes legal and commercial challenges. She advises CEOs, boards and senior leadership across global businesses, renewable-energy developers and emerging companies—bringing practical judgment, business fluency and the ability to turn complex issues into clear, actionable decisions.
Cynthia has built legal and compliance functions from the ground up and led sophisticated teams of attorneys and legal professionals. Her experience ranges from serving as a company’s first legal hire to coordinating dozens of outside lawyers and overseeing tens of millions in annual outside legal spend. At Parliament Energy, she built the legal, governance, compliance, land and human-resources functions needed to support a growing portfolio of utility-scale solar and storage projects. Previously, as General Counsel of energyRe, she directed legal work for some of the country’s most ambitious renewable-infrastructure initiatives, including Clean Path New York and Leading Light Wind, as well as a $1.2 billion capital raise and portfolios encompassing utility-scale and distributed solar. Earlier, Cynthia helped lead TotalEnergies’ expansion into U.S. renewable power, including numerous major acquisitions and joint ventures. Cynthia began her legal career at Vinson & Elkins, where her transactional practice spanned major acquisitions, financings, joint ventures and project developments, primarily in oil and gas.
Core Expertise
- Strategic counsel to CEOs, boards and senior leadership
- Complex commercial agreements and negotiations
- Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures
- Project development, financing, EPC and global procurement
- Corporate governance, compliance and risk management
- Building legal teams and managing outside counsel and legal spend
