Possessing ‘tremendous experience in large energy transactions’ and combining ’great leadership and team effort to get deals done’, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP handles a diverse array of instructions from a host of clients that include independent power producers, financial sponsors, and global developers. Recent PE and M&A transactions have had a firm focus on renewables and energy transition assets such as hydropower, solar, wind, transmission cables and green hydrogen. Outside of this, the firm continues to excel at large-scale nuclear mandates. Elizabeth Hanigan and Stephen Spina co-lead the practice and operate out of Chicago and Washington DC respectively. Spina is a key contact for electric utilities while Hanigan takes the lead on build transfer agreements for complex energy projects. New York duo John Klauberg and Michael Espinoza primarily focus on high-end M&A and PE deals, whereas Boston’s Amy Maloney‘s debt finance acumen is crucial to a number of acqusition finance and leveraged finance transactions. Laura Neumeister Wright, who also possesses long-standing finance capabilities, acts out of Chicago and is notably active on solar and wind mandates.
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  • ‘Tremendous experience in large energy transactions. Great leadership and team effort to get deals done.’

  • ‘John Klauberg is one of the best and most reputed transactional lawyers in the US. Mike Espinoza brings so much know-how and practical skills to close out any deals.'

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Kernmandanten

  • HQI US Holding LLC/Hydro-Québec
  • Ashtrom Renewable Energy
  • Invenergy
  • Evergy
  • Salt River Project
  • Energy Harbor
  • Foundation Infrastructure Partners
  • Osaka Gas
  • Xcel Energy
  • MMR Group

Highlight-Mandate

  • Represented HQI US Holding LLC in its agreement to acquire Great River Hydro LLC, which owns the largest hydropower fleet in New England, valued at approximately $2 billion.
  • Represented Invenergy Renewables Operating I LLC as borrower and Invenergy Renewables LLC as sponsor in the $1.05 billion refinancing of a revolving loan and letter-of-credit facility that supports the borrower’s fleet of onshore and offshore wind, solar, transmission, and energy storage assets.
  • Assisted Ashtrom Renewable Energy (ARE) in the acquisition of six utility-scale solar projects and with the construction and term financing with a novel PTC transfer agreement for this 306 MWac project.

Anwält*innen

Praxisleitung

Elizabeth Hanigan; Stephen Spina

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

John Klauberg; Michael Espinoza; Amy Maloney; Laura Neumeister Wright