Leila Ravi

Partner

Finance

New York

P +1.212.237.0071

[email protected]

Leila Ravi of Vinson and Elkins New York

Overview

Recognized in Finance: Project Finance

Legal 500 U.S., 2026

Leila is a project finance attorney in V&E’s Finance group. Leila represents investors, developers, lenders (including banks and institutional investors), sponsors and borrowers in various types of finance and M&A transactions, with an emphasis on project finance. She advises clients in domestic and cross-border transactions across industries, with a focus on the development, financing, acquisition, disposition and restructuring of major energy and infrastructure projects.

Experience

Viridi Energy Operating, LLC, an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, in connection with its investment into and related $98 million development and construction financing of American Organic Energy, LLC’s anaerobic digestion plant
Intersect Power in its $800 million development revolving credit facility
Global Infrastructure Partners in its $18.4 billion project financing into RIO Grande LNG, a joint venture with TotalEnergies, NextDecade, GIC, and Mubadala Investment Company
SB Energy, a fully integrated U.S. renewable energy platform backed by Softbank Group Corp and Ares Climate Infrastructure, in its $920 million refinancing of its mezzanine debt facility
Apex Clean Energy in its corporate financing facility
Affiliates of CarVal Investors, a leading global alternative investment fund manager, in connection with a corporate restructuring and senior secured financing of a portfolio of three wind facilities with over 450MW of generating capacity in Texas, developed and owned by a subsidiary of a major private equity firm
A water-focused specialty financing company in connection with its corporate revolver from a green infrastructure investment firm
Lender groups in relation to the project documents and $400 million financing arrangements for GlenFarne’s construction and operation of a portfolio of five power plants in Chile

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The Forest Road Company, a specialty financing company, in its $50 million investment in Cherry Street Solar, a solar energy startup
MUFG Bank as sole lead arranger with respect to the $215 million refinancing of NIMH Solar facilities owned by subsidiaries of Clearway Energy, a leading publicly-traded energy infrastructure investor focused on modern, sustainable and long-term contracted assets across North America
Generate Capital in several acquisitions and related financings
Investec in several construction financings and restructurings
Institutional investors in connection with the 4(a)(3) private placement financing of certain rail terminaling facilities and related infrastructure being constructed, owned and operated by affiliates of Savage Enterprises to serve the Gregory, TX plastics manufacturing facility developed by Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a joint venture between affiliates of Exxon and SABIC
Lead arrangers, including Credit Suisse and Barclays, in the $580 million Term Loan B refinancing of Oregon Clean Energy, which owns a natural gas power plant in Oregon, Ohio
Lenders in the financing of the largest gas gathering, processing and transport system in East Texas, owned by a subsidiary of a private equity firm
Lenders in the acquisition, conversion and construction financing of a Texas oil refinery to an alternative feedstock refinery

Apex Clean Energy in various sales of and preferred equity investments into clean energy assets
Sandbrook Capital in its up to $460 million investment to rPlus Energies, a private renewable energy developer
TPG Rise Climate in its $750 million investment into Intersect Power
Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its approximately $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC
Funds managed by Ares Management Corporation in its acquisition of a majority share in Apex Clean Energy
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its $1.1 billion investment into NextEra Energy
LS Power in relation to various acquisitions, joint ventures and auction bids, inducing the acquisition, operating and governing arrangements for Yards Creek Pumped Storage Hydro Project from Jersey Central Power & Light Company and PSEG Fossil
Apollo Global Management in its approximately $3 billion acquisition of a 49.9% stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV’s US-based metal container plants and the consortium of lenders led by Apollo in the related financing
Terraform Power, a portfolio company of Brookfield Renewables, in the acquisition and integration of AltaGas Ltd.’s U.S. portfolio of distributed solar generation assets