Chadbourne Advises on Major New Solar Project in Northern California
Global | Business | September 9, 2015
Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented the lead arranger and lender for the financing of the 100 MW Mustang solar project to be located in Kings County, California. The Mustang project benefits from long-term power purchase agreements with Sonoma Clean Power Authority and Marin Clean Energy, two community choice energy aggregators (CCAs) that allow California municipal governments to pool the electricity demand of their communities. The Mustang project is the first project of its size to be financed on the basis of power purchase agreements with CCAs. The sponsor for the project is Recurrent Energy, and a tax equity investment is being provided by US Bank.
The financing consisted of a construction period credit agreement that provides for a US$75 million construction loan facility, an approximately US$90 million tax equity bridge loan facility and an approximately US$8 million letter of credit facility, as well as an operating period back-leverage credit facility with a US$75 million term loan facility and an approximately US$16 million letter of credit facility.
The Chadbourne team was led by partner Rohit Chaudhry and associates Ginger Collier and Brian Greene. Additional assistance was provided by partners Marjorie Glover and Robert Shapiro, counsel Scott Bank, Susan Cowell and Christy Rivera, senior consulting attorney Elizabeth Miller, and associates Matthew Harris, Ana Vucetic and Richard Waddington.
Chadbourne was recently ranked as the top global legal adviser for project finance transactions in the first half of 2015 (H1 2015), according to research prepared by IJGlobal. The firm handled US$35.997 billion in transactions, more than US$10 billion ahead of the second-ranked firm.
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Originally prepared by Chadbourne & Parke. Chadbourne & Parke combined with Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP on June 30, 2017 and is now known as Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP.
