Claire Melvin is an associate in the Project Development & Finance practice.

• Private placement noteholders on the issuance of $850 million of fixed rate notes by ITR Concession Company, which operates, manages and maintains the Indiana Toll Road under a 75-year lease pursuant to a public-private partnership (P3) with the Indiana Finance Authority; note purchasers on the $670 million senior secured notes issuance by ITR Concession Company; lenders on the $350 million term loan to an intermediate holding company of the operator of the Indiana Toll Road
• JBIC, SMBC, HSBC, Mizuho, Banco del Estado de Chile, KFC, NEXI and KSURE as lenders or insurers on the $1.05 billion secured financing for the Cochrane power project in Chile developed by AES Gener and Mitsubishi
• Initial purchasers on the offering of $650 million in senior secured notes for Northfield Mountain LLC, a subsidiary of FirstLight, in connection with its pumped storage hydroelectric generating facility located in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont with approximately 1,168 MW of generating capacity
• Commercial and development banks on the Enel Green Power portfolio project financing of three solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in Mexico – Don Jose, Villanueva I and Villanueva III – with an aggregate project value of approximately $1 billion. Each project is contracted under a 15-year energy and 20-year clean energy certificate power purchase agreement awarded pursuant to auctions held by the Centro Nacional de Control de Energía (CENACE) of Mexico, following the historic energy reform of December 2013 (“Renewable Energy Financing of the Year” (2019) by LatinFinance, Commended for “Accessing New Markets and Capital” (2019) by FT Innovative Lawyer Awards, “Corporate Deal of the Year” (2019) by S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards, “Americas Solar Deal of the Year” (2018) by PFI )
• Energía del Valle de México Generador as borrower and EFS Global Energy EVM Tenedora as sponsors on senior secured term and letter of credit facilities, and the issuance of senior secured fixed rate notes to finance the development and operation of an approximately 850 MW greenfield combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant in the Axapusco municipality located outside of Mexico City
• FMO and the lenders on the financing of the construction of an approximately 12 MW expansion of the existing approximately 50 MW San Marcos wind project in Choluteca, Honduras
• GE Capital Global Holdings on its acquisition of an approximate 25% stake in YPF Energía Eléctrica (YPF EE) from YPF S.A. GE Capital and YPF S.A. will jointly control YPF EE
• Certain financial institutions as purchasers on the issuance of $110 million senior secured notes by Bayonne Water Joint Venture to acquire the concession for the municipal water and wastewater systems in Bayonne, New Jersey; also advised the purchasers on an additional private placement of $40 million senior notes of Bayonne Water Joint Venture
• Citigroup and MUFG as lead placement agents, MUFG as letter of credit facility administrative agent and letter of credit issuing bank, and as special counsel to the purchasers on the placement of senior secured fixed rate term notes and a senior secured letter of credit facility for a photovoltaic solar project with the capacity of 110.2 MW, indirectly owned by Berkshire Hathaway in the United States
• Joint coordinating lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, on a financing related to LS Power's Riverside University Park North and University Park South Projects
• ING Capital LLC, Siemens Financial Services, Inc. and BNP Paribas, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in connection with a $130 million refinancing related to LS Power's Wallingford project, a 250MW combined cycle gas turbine plant in Connecticut
• Citigroup Global Markets and Barclays Capital as lead placement agents, SMBC Nikko Securities America as co-placement agent, SMBC as letter of credit facility administrative agent, letter of credit issuing bank and special counsel to the purchasers on the placement of senior secured fixed rate term notes and a senior secured letter of credit facility for a photovoltaic solar project with a capacity of approximately 158 MW, indirectly owned by ConEd in Upton County, Texas
• Lead placement agents, letter of credit facility administrative agent and special counsel to purchasers on a private placement for a portfolio of six photovoltaic solar projects in California owned by Consolidated Edison