Becky Diffen

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

2019 Law & Finance Award Winner

Becky Diffen is a Renewable Energy Partner based in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin office, where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, project development, and project finance in the wind, solar, energy storage, and waste-to-energy industries. She also teaches a class on renewable energy law as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Diffen began her renewable energy career as a utility-scale wind power developer. Since attending law school, she has represented clients in some of the largest and most complex renewable energy transactions. For example, she represented Duke Energy in the development of the 36 MW Notrees battery storage project and Macquarie Capital in the development, financing, and sale of the 200 MW Canadian Breaks wind project, the only project to be financed in the Texas Panhandle since 2016. She is a co-author of Wind Law, the first and only legal treatise focused on wind law. Diffen is a strong supporter of the national Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) organization and is currently serving as chair of WRISE’s national webinar committee, co-chair of the Austin Chapter, and co-chair of the 2020 WRISE Leadership Forum. Active in her community, she serves on the board of Zilker Theatre Productions, provides pro bono services to local affordable housing and family-focused non-profits, and coaches youth softball. Diffen is a magna cum laude graduate of Carleton College and earned her JD with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where she served as Editor in Chief of the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law.