About Randy
With over 41 years of diverse experience as a CEO, corporate counsel and Wall Street lawyer, Randy Hill has a unique and well-rounded understanding of complex multi-disciplinary business issues. He is an experienced executive manager and team leader, trusted advisor, and problem solver. At his core, he is a “closer”—the consummate transactional lawyer with vast experience in successfully completing a full range of domestic and international projects and business deals involving, in the aggregate, tens of billions of dollars and oftentimes innovative first-of-kind structures, including mergers and acquisitions, energy and infrastructure development, EPC, design-build and management and operations contracting for huge private and government-sponsored projects, and project finance and other complex capital-raising and financing transactions. He approaches every matter (regardless of size and complexity) with a mind for business, enthusiasm, and relentless effort to achieve the client’s objectives efficiently and effectively. As a former client himself, he knows what clients expect of their outside counsel and continually strives to exceed those expectations.
Before joining the firm, Randy most recently served as chief legal officer for a major, multibillion-dollar division of AECOM (previously Washington Group International and then URS through successive mergers), a leading engineering, construction and management solutions business serving clients in the oil and gas, power, industrial process, civil construction, mining, and government sectors worldwide. He was responsible for all legal affairs of this global business, including contracting, risk management, claims and litigation, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate governance and compliance, and also served as the executive leader of the company’s Boise office with over 400 employees. He also served on the company’s risk management committee responsible for overseeing operations, business prospects and execution of major projects.
Randy also served as General Counsel and then President and CEO of Ida-West Energy, an independent power company, guiding all of its operating, financing, development, acquisition, energy marketing and other business activities while managing intricate relationships with stakeholders, partners, lenders, power purchasers, royalty owners, regulatory agencies, and governmental authorities.
Previously, Randy was in private practice with Cravath, Swaine & Moore (a premier Wall Street firm) and then, when he returned to his native Idaho, a prominent Boise-based firm. During these years, he participated fully in a broad range of numerous complicated business transactions.
Randy is serving his fourth term as one of seven Governor-appointed directors (and is currently Chair) of the Idaho Energy Resources Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Idaho with the authority to finance, through the issuance of revenue bonds, the construction of electric generation and transmission projects for investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative electric utilities, and certain renewable energy projects for independent developers.
He also served on the Board of Directors of U.S. Geothermal Inc., a publicly traded renewable energy company headquartered in Boise, and as Chair of the Board’s Executive and Compensation Committees, until April 2018 when the company was acquired by Ormat, a leader in the geothermal energy sector with headquarters in Israel. Randy also served on the Special Committee established by the Board to conduct the sale process.
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