Representative Experience

• Represented Canadian Solar, Inc. on the acquisition of Recurrent Energy LLC. The acquisition increased Canadian Solar’s total solar project pipeline by 4.0gigawatts (GW) to a total of 8.5 GW and added approximately 1.0 GW of late-stage projects. The transaction was awarded the M&A Advisor Award for the Cross-Border Deal of the Year (over $250 million to $550 million) at the 14th Annual M&A Advisor Awards gala on November 17, 2015.
• Represented Exelon Generation Company in its agreement to acquire John Deere Renewables for $900 million. The deal provided Exelon with an established wind development team comprised of three dozen spinning wind farms totaling 735 megawatts of installed, operating wind capacity, as well as three near-term projects totaling 230 megawatts, which are in advanced stages of development. The transaction was recently named “Best M&A Deal” by Institutional Investor’s Power Finance & Risk Newsletter.
• Represented Sunoco, Inc. in the sale of its refinery in Toledo, Ohio to Toledo Refining Company LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of PBF Holding Company LLC for approximately $400 million (consisting of $200 million in cash and a $200 million two-year note). In addition, the purchase agreement includes a participation payment of up to $125 million based on the future profitability of the refinery.
• Represented SBA Communications Corporation, a leading independent owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure, in an agreement valued at $973 million to purchase Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) portfolio of license agreements for cellular installations on more than 700 PG&E electric transmission towers in Northern California.
• Represented as co-counsel RWE AG (RWE), a leading renewable energy company, in its recent purchase agreement with Con Edison, Inc., for all shares in Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses, Inc. (CEB), a leading operator and developer of renewable energy projects in the U.S., for a purchase price based on an enterprise value of $6.8 billion.
• Represented Balanced Rock Power, a Utah-based developer of high-quality, large-scale renewable energy projects, in the completion of an equity investment by SG Energy, an Israeli renewable energy company.
• Represented Interstate Power and Light Company in the sale of its interests in the Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant to FPL Group for $380 million dollars.
• Represented utility affiliates of Integrys Energy and Alliant Energy in the sale of Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant to Dominion Resources for $200 million dollars.
• Represented Interstate Power and Light Company in the divestiture of all of its electric transmission assets (39kv and above) in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri to ITC Holdings Corp. for $784 million dollars.
• Represented IDEX Corporation in its acquisition of KZValve, LLC, bolstering IDEX’s expertise in providing critical solutions for agriculture and industrial applications.
• Represented IDEX Corporation in the acquisition of Flow Management Devices, LLC (Flow MD), a privately-held provider of flow measurement systems that ensure custody transfer accuracy in the oil and gas industry.
• Represented SunCoke Energy, Inc. in its divestiture of its coal mining business to Revelation Energy, LLC in a transaction that includes substantially all of SXC’s remaining coal mining assets, mineral leases, real estate and mining reclamation costs.
• Represented SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. in its agreement with Raven Energy Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of The Cline Group, to acquire Convent Marine Terminal in Convent, La., for $412 million.
• Represent a leading Midwest-based utility and its non-regulated subsidiary in connection with its decision to either divest entirely or partially its energy trading and marketing segment along with the resulting transactions.
• Represented a leading energy-focused private equity fund and its portfolio companies, in the acquisition, financing and divestiture of numerous district energy assets throughout the United States.
• Represented North American Natural Resources, Inc. (NANR) and its sister companies North American Biofuels, LLC and North American-Central, LLC, in its sale to Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI), one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America. The $135 million acquisition in combined purchase price and related transaction costs includes seven landfill gas-to-power facilities in Michigan and Kentucky.
• Represented New Energy Equity, a national end-to-end solar development and finance company, in the sale of 100% of its membership interests to ALLETE, an energy provider that invests in transmission infrastructure and other energy-centric businesses.