Jay Blake is an associate attorney in the Energy Transactional Practice Group at the firm's Houston, Texas office.
Before embarking on his legal career, Jay spent five years as a natural gas trader at Citigroup Energy, Inc., ultimately advancing to the position of Assistant Vice President. In this capacity, he facilitated producer-hedging activities for the bank's natural gas producer and consumer clients, with a primary focus on basis markets across the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast regions. Additionally, Jay was integral to the bank's physical natural gas strategy, overseeing opportunities in natural gas storage and pipeline transportation.
Jay regularly represents financial institutions, hedge funds, commodity trading firms, energy marketers, project developers, and other energy companies and investors in complex commodity and financing transactions, with a primary focus on the natural gas, power, and alternative energy sectors.