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Southern Company and its affiliate Georgia Power Company in certain agreements to provide up to 3.2GW of power to support OpenAI’s data center development in Georgia (ongoing)

Talen Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: TLN) on its 1,920 MW power purchase agreement and associated arrangements with Amazon Web Services to provide carbon-free energy from Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant to support AMZN’s announced $20 plus billion dollar data center build out in Pennsylvania

Numerous power companies, data center developers, customers and investors in aspects of multiple different digital infrastructure projects around the country, including some of the largest capital projects in the digital infrastructure sector

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. on dozens of equity investments, financings and other transactions of infrastructure and industrials companies and projects

Sixth Street Partners on multiple investments in infrastructure, energy, sports and other companies and assets

Elliott Investment Management on many of its energy, power, industrial and other investments

Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the multi-billion dollar South Fork and Revolution Offshore Wind Projects from Eversource Energy, including the negotiation of the joint venture arrangements with Orsted for the construction and operation of the projects and all financing arrangements (IJInvestor Joint Venture of the Year, 2024)

OCI Global in all aspects of the development, and subsequent $2.35 billion sale, of its equity interests in a clean ammonia project under construction in Beaumont, Texas to Woodside Energy Group

Stonepeak in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the approximately $11.0 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, which at 2.6 GW is expected to be the largest offshore wind project in the U.S. and one of the largest offshore wind projects globally upon completion (Proximo North America Offshore Wind Deal of the Year, 2024) (Project Finance International Americas Deal of the Year, 2024)

New Fortress Energy in the successful bid to operate, maintain, modernize and decommission Puerto Rico’s approximately 3,600 MW of thermal power generation facilities

MN8 Energy, a leading renewable energy and battery storage owner-operator in the US, in its agreement with Mercedes-Benz to deliver an open network of branded high-power charging stations in North America

Brookfield Renewable Power in the approximately $1 billion acquisition of Scout Clean Energy from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners

Affiliates of The Carlyle Group on multiple renewable energy and infrastructure transactions

MN8 Energy (Goldman Sachs Renewable Power) Fund as counsel to its $4 billion renewable energy fund, including in connection with (i) its approximately $350 million acquisition from Marina Energy, a subsidiary of Southern Jersey Industries, of its solar portfolio comprised of 76 distributed solar energy projects with total capacity of 204 MW, (ii) its acquisition of a 142 MW portfolio of solar power generation assets from a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation and (iii) a range of other ongoing acquisition, financing and transactional matters

Global Atlantic Financial Group in the $1.175 billion acquisition from Southern Power of a 33 percent minority interest in its solar portfolio (comprised of 26 operating solar facilities representing approximately 1.7 gigawatts of capacity)

MN8 Energy in the establishment of a financing partnership with ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) to reduce upfront costs of EV charging technology

Private developer as project counsel in all aspects of the development and project financing of a renewable diesel production facility with a nameplate capacity of 100 million gallons annually to be located on the Texas Gulf Coast, including the negotiation of hydrogen supply agreements

A special situations fund in a nearly $1 billion back-levered acquisition (by way of a joint venture) of a portfolio of wind assets from a global conglomerate

ioneer Ltd. in the formation of a 50/50 joint venture with Sibanye Stillwater to develop the flagship Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project located in Nevada and related development and financing matters

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in connection with a joint venture with QatarEnergy to develop an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas

Woodside Energy Group Ltd on a range of matters including:

• its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE
• the $440 million acquisition of the assets of ConocoPhillips in Senegal
• the $3.761 billion acquisition of Apache Corporation’s Wheatstone LNG project and Balnaves oil interests in Australia and Kitimat LNG project interests in Canada
• US law matters

Gulf Coast Ammonia as project counsel in the development and financing of a world-scale ammonia project in Texas, including the negotiation of a $574.3 million debt package from a consortium of nine commercial banks (Proximo’s 2019 North American Petrochemicals Deal of the Year)

IFM/Buckeye in connection with its investment in Train 2 of the Freeport LNG project in Freeport, Texas

Macquarie Capital in connection with multiple early stage infrastructure and energy investments and development projects 

BlueScope Steel in the proposed expansion of its North Star steel facility, a high-tech mini-mill in Ohio

Texas Central Partners as project counsel in the development of a high speed rail project between Houston and Dallas

A large international energy company in the formation of a 50/50 joint venture and the development of an ethylene cracker with an estimated capacity of 544,000 metric tons/yr (1.2 billion lbs/year); the project is anticipated to have a capital cost of approximately $1.5 billion

A leading pipeline and midstream company in the joint venture, construction, and development arrangements for the approximate $3.5 billion, 465-mile interstate natural gas pipeline stretching from Alabama to Florida

A large international energy company on multi-billion dollar offshore development projects

BHP Billiton on the multibillion dollar Macedon Gas Project in Western Australia

Mubadala Development Company in the $18 billion development and construction aspects of an aluminum smelter (EMAL Aluminium Smelter Project at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi); the world’s largest greenfield aluminum smelter

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (and related parties) in a range of transactions including:

• Special Situations Group in multiple investments (equity, debt and hybrid) in wind, solar, geothermal, energy storage and other alternative energy and industrial projects and companies, refined coal projects, oil and gas and other hydrocarbons and commodities matters
• MN8 Energy (Goldman Sachs Renewable Power) Fund in debt and equity transactions with renewable energy companies
• J. Aron & Company in structured commodity transactions and related matters
• Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners in connection with energy infrastructure matters

Sixth Street in a range of transactions, including:

• Investment in the San Antonio Spurs NBA franchise
• Multiple acquisitions of wind assets
• Multiple acquisitions of solar assets
• Investments in midstream businesses
• Oil and gas investments
• Debt and equity transactions with fast growing enterprises

TPG Capital and TPG Growth on a range of energy transactions, including TPG Growth on its acquisition of Discovery Midstream, a Dallas-based provider of oil and natural gas gathering and natural gas processing services in the southern portion of Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin

Elliott Management Corporation on a range of energy, industrial, manufacturing and infrastructure industry matters

Wall Street Banks, traders and companies (refiners, other commodity producers) in connection with intermediation, repurchase, bridging and other structured arrangements