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Leslie Jacomino

Associate

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Leslie’s practice focuses on acquisitions and dispositions, debt and equity financings, joint ventures, and general corporate law matters, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Key Matters

Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.

Energy

Represented Altus Power, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of a 234 MW portfolio of solar generation and storage assets involving more than 100 sites across 18 states from Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation.
Represented a major independent power producer in connection with its bid to acquire an approximately 800 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle generating facility located in PJM, including complete due diligence and final negotiation of purchase agreement.
Represented the note purchasers in connection with the financing of the Calistoga Resiliency Center project, a hybrid hydrogen and battery energy storage and hydrogen fuel cell electrical power generation facility located in Calistoga, California.
Represented Capital Power Corporation in connection with its purchase of the 1,062 MW La Paloma natural gas-fired generation facility in California from CSG Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Beal Financial Corporation.
Represented Capital Power Corporation in connection its purchase, together with an affiliate of a fund managed by BlackRock’s Diversified Infrastructure business, of the 1,092 MW Harquahala natural gas-fired generation facility in Maricopa County, Arizona from CSG Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Beal Financial Corporation.
Represented HICL Infrastructure PLC, managed by InfraRed Capital Partners, in connection with its acquisition of a 45% stake in Texas Nevada Transmission (TNT), which owns and operates 500 miles of transmission lines in Texas and Nevada.
Represented a solar energy developer in connection with the sale of two pre-development battery energy storage system (BESS) projects (totaling 435 MW) located in the Boston metropolitan area.
Represented an international consortium in the pre-development acquisition and financing of a 350 MW solar project in Texas.
Represented an independent power producer in connection with the development and financing of a 605MW gas-fired peaking power project in Texas.
Represented an independent power producer in connection with the development and financing of a 484MW gas-fired peaking power project in Texas.
Represented Axium Infrastructure in connection with its acquisition, and acquisition financing, of Wind Energy Transmission Texas, LLC (WETT), which owns and operates 375 miles of transmission lines and six substations across eleven West Texas counties as part of the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone program.
Represented Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation in connection with the sale of its renewable energy portfolio.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in its acquisition of a 400 MW wind portfolio in North America.
Represented Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners, L.P. in connection with the issuance of US$322M of senior secured notes, a US$30M letter of credit facility and a US$82M subordinated loan from Build NYC Resource Corporation made from the proceeds of tax-exempt refunding revenue bonds issued by Build NYC Resource Corporation.
Represented Axium Infrastructure in its acquisition of Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners, L.P., which owns and operates a 286 MW gas-fired plant that supplies electricity and steam to New York City.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in the acquisition and financing of a microgrid and district energy system with capacity of 101 megawatts of electricity, 1,000,000 pounds per hour of steam, and 41,000 tons of chilled water serving five hospitals and the Harvard Institutes of Medicine in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston.
Represented the lead arrangers and note purchasers in connection with the refinancing of a portfolio of over 20 rooftop solar assets located in California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
Represented the lender in connection with the financing of a landfill gas processing project in Michigan.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in the acquisition of a 110 MW solar portfolio in North America.
Represented an energy fund in its participation in a consortium acquisition of a 750 MW gas-fired generation facility.
Represented a pension fund in the acquisition of a 4 GW hydroelectric generation portfolio in ISO-NE valued at US$1.2B.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in its refinancing of a 120 MW wind power project.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in the financing of its acquisition of a 49% interest in a 1 GW portfolio of wind projects located throughout the United States.

Infrastructure

Represented the note purchasers in connection with the issuance of $US464M senior secured notes issued by a subsidiary of Altera Infrastructure for the refurbishment of a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) located off the Ivory Coast.
Represented the initial purchaser of $110M of tax-exempt bonds and the purchasers of $77M of privately placed taxable bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority, the proceeds of which were loaned to a subsidiary of Global Ports Holding Plc (the world’s largest independent cruise port operator), to finance a project to repair, expand, finance, maintain, and operate cruise terminals in the San Juan Bay pursuant to a 30-year concession.
Represented Patriot Rail its acquisition from BRX Transportation Holdings of Pioneer Lines, Inc., a railroad holding company operating 15 short line railroads across 12 states in the United States.
Represented Axium Infrastructure in the acquisition of BBCS-Hawkeye Housing LLC, which owns a 521 unit/862 bed on-campus student housing project at the University of Iowa.
Represented Plenary Properties Purdue, LLC, in connection with a project to develop, design, build, finance, operate, and maintain two student housing facilities to accommodate approximately 1,300 beds at Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus.
Represented the lenders in connection with a US$226M credit facility used by John Laing Investments and Cubic Transportation Systems to finance the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Automated Fare Collection System Services Project.
Represented Meridiam Infrastructure, Kiewit Development Company, and Kiewit Meridiam Partners LLC in connection with a project to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain the approximately US$1B Central 70 Project, which consists of improvements to an approximately 10-mile stretch of I-70 East in greater Denver, Colorado.
Represented John Laing Investments in connection with its equity investment in a project to develop, design, build, finance, operate, toll and maintain high occupancy/toll lanes and associated facilities along the 22-mile I-66 corridor from I-495 (Capital Beltway) in Fairfax County to US 29 (Gainesville) in Prince William County.
Represented the lenders in connection with a term loan and working capital facility to finance the acquisition by AMP Capital Global Infrastructure Fund of ITS ConGlobal, one of North America’s largest operators of intermodal railroad and auto terminals, container yard depots, and provider of intermodal equipment maintenance and repair services.
Represented HICL Infrastructure Company Limited, Northleaf Infrastructure Capital Partners LP and Northleaf Infrastructure Capital Partners II LP, and DIF Infrastructure IV Cooperatief UA in connection with the acquisition and financing of Northwest Parkway LLC, which operates the Northwest Parkway, a nine-mile segment of the partial beltway system extending around the Denver metropolitan area, under a 99-year concession and lease agreement with the Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority.
Represented the underwriters, Citigroup Global Markets and Barclays Capital Inc., in connection with the issuance of senior lien revenue bonds to finance Blueridge Transportation Group, LLC’s approximately US$1.06B project to design, build, finance, operate and maintain tolled lanes and related facilities along a portion of State Highway 288 in Harris County, Texas.
Represented Plenary Group USA Concessions in connection with an approximately US$550M project in Long Beach, California to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a new city hall, a new public library, new parking facilities, a revitalized park, and a new headquarters for the Port of Long Beach.

Food, Agriculture & Industrials

Represented Cargill, Inc. in connection with the US$4.3B take-private of Nasdaq-listed Sanderson Farms and simultaneous formation of joint venture with Continental Grain and private acquisition of Wayne Farms.
Represented Cargill, Inc. in connection with Cargill Animal Nutrition’s divestiture of its formulation and mill management software platforms.
Represented Cargill, Inc. in connection with a joint venture between Cargill Bioindustrials and HELM for the production and distribution of bio-based butanediol.
Represented Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. in connection with a US$450M Note offering.

Recent Experience

Winston Represents Altus Power in 234 MW Portfolio Acquisition

Winston Closes Financing of the Landmark San Juan Bay Cruise Terminals Project

Winston Represents Capital Power Corporation in Two Gas-Fired Generation Facility Acquisitions Totaling US$1.1B

Axium Infrastructures’s Acquisition of a 375-mile Electric Power Transmission System in Texas

Capabilities

Project Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Key Matters

Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.

Energy

Represented Altus Power, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of a 234 MW portfolio of solar generation and storage assets involving more than 100 sites across 18 states from Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation.
Represented a major independent power producer in connection with its bid to acquire an approximately 800 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle generating facility located in PJM, including complete due diligence and final negotiation of purchase agreement.
Represented the note purchasers in connection with the financing of the Calistoga Resiliency Center project, a hybrid hydrogen and battery energy storage and hydrogen fuel cell electrical power generation facility located in Calistoga, California.
Represented Capital Power Corporation in connection with its purchase of the 1,062 MW La Paloma natural gas-fired generation facility in California from CSG Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Beal Financial Corporation.
Represented Capital Power Corporation in connection its purchase, together with an affiliate of a fund managed by BlackRock’s Diversified Infrastructure business, of the 1,092 MW Harquahala natural gas-fired generation facility in Maricopa County, Arizona from CSG Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Beal Financial Corporation.
Represented HICL Infrastructure PLC, managed by InfraRed Capital Partners, in connection with its acquisition of a 45% stake in Texas Nevada Transmission (TNT), which owns and operates 500 miles of transmission lines in Texas and Nevada.
Represented a solar energy developer in connection with the sale of two pre-development battery energy storage system (BESS) projects (totaling 435 MW) located in the Boston metropolitan area.
Represented an international consortium in the pre-development acquisition and financing of a 350 MW solar project in Texas.
Represented an independent power producer in connection with the development and financing of a 605MW gas-fired peaking power project in Texas.
Represented an independent power producer in connection with the development and financing of a 484MW gas-fired peaking power project in Texas.
Represented Axium Infrastructure in connection with its acquisition, and acquisition financing, of Wind Energy Transmission Texas, LLC (WETT), which owns and operates 375 miles of transmission lines and six substations across eleven West Texas counties as part of the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone program.
Represented Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation in connection with the sale of its renewable energy portfolio.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in its acquisition of a 400 MW wind portfolio in North America.
Represented Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners, L.P. in connection with the issuance of US$322M of senior secured notes, a US$30M letter of credit facility and a US$82M subordinated loan from Build NYC Resource Corporation made from the proceeds of tax-exempt refunding revenue bonds issued by Build NYC Resource Corporation.
Represented Axium Infrastructure in its acquisition of Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners, L.P., which owns and operates a 286 MW gas-fired plant that supplies electricity and steam to New York City.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in the acquisition and financing of a microgrid and district energy system with capacity of 101 megawatts of electricity, 1,000,000 pounds per hour of steam, and 41,000 tons of chilled water serving five hospitals and the Harvard Institutes of Medicine in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston.
Represented the lead arrangers and note purchasers in connection with the refinancing of a portfolio of over 20 rooftop solar assets located in California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
Represented the lender in connection with the financing of a landfill gas processing project in Michigan.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in the acquisition of a 110 MW solar portfolio in North America.
Represented an energy fund in its participation in a consortium acquisition of a 750 MW gas-fired generation facility.
Represented a pension fund in the acquisition of a 4 GW hydroelectric generation portfolio in ISO-NE valued at US$1.2B.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in its refinancing of a 120 MW wind power project.
Represented an international infrastructure fund in the financing of its acquisition of a 49% interest in a 1 GW portfolio of wind projects located throughout the United States.

Infrastructure

Represented the note purchasers in connection with the issuance of $US464M senior secured notes issued by a subsidiary of Altera Infrastructure for the refurbishment of a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) located off the Ivory Coast.
Represented the initial purchaser of $110M of tax-exempt bonds and the purchasers of $77M of privately placed taxable bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority, the proceeds of which were loaned to a subsidiary of Global Ports Holding Plc (the world’s largest independent cruise port operator), to finance a project to repair, expand, finance, maintain, and operate cruise terminals in the San Juan Bay pursuant to a 30-year concession.
Represented Patriot Rail its acquisition from BRX Transportation Holdings of Pioneer Lines, Inc., a railroad holding company operating 15 short line railroads across 12 states in the United States.
Represented Axium Infrastructure in the acquisition of BBCS-Hawkeye Housing LLC, which owns a 521 unit/862 bed on-campus student housing project at the University of Iowa.
Represented Plenary Properties Purdue, LLC, in connection with a project to develop, design, build, finance, operate, and maintain two student housing facilities to accommodate approximately 1,300 beds at Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus.
Represented the lenders in connection with a US$226M credit facility used by John Laing Investments and Cubic Transportation Systems to finance the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Automated Fare Collection System Services Project.
Represented Meridiam Infrastructure, Kiewit Development Company, and Kiewit Meridiam Partners LLC in connection with a project to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain the approximately US$1B Central 70 Project, which consists of improvements to an approximately 10-mile stretch of I-70 East in greater Denver, Colorado.
Represented John Laing Investments in connection with its equity investment in a project to develop, design, build, finance, operate, toll and maintain high occupancy/toll lanes and associated facilities along the 22-mile I-66 corridor from I-495 (Capital Beltway) in Fairfax County to US 29 (Gainesville) in Prince William County.
Represented the lenders in connection with a term loan and working capital facility to finance the acquisition by AMP Capital Global Infrastructure Fund of ITS ConGlobal, one of North America’s largest operators of intermodal railroad and auto terminals, container yard depots, and provider of intermodal equipment maintenance and repair services.
Represented HICL Infrastructure Company Limited, Northleaf Infrastructure Capital Partners LP and Northleaf Infrastructure Capital Partners II LP, and DIF Infrastructure IV Cooperatief UA in connection with the acquisition and financing of Northwest Parkway LLC, which operates the Northwest Parkway, a nine-mile segment of the partial beltway system extending around the Denver metropolitan area, under a 99-year concession and lease agreement with the Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority.
Represented the underwriters, Citigroup Global Markets and Barclays Capital Inc., in connection with the issuance of senior lien revenue bonds to finance Blueridge Transportation Group, LLC’s approximately US$1.06B project to design, build, finance, operate and maintain tolled lanes and related facilities along a portion of State Highway 288 in Harris County, Texas.
Represented Plenary Group USA Concessions in connection with an approximately US$550M project in Long Beach, California to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a new city hall, a new public library, new parking facilities, a revitalized park, and a new headquarters for the Port of Long Beach.

Food, Agriculture & Industrials

Represented Cargill, Inc. in connection with the US$4.3B take-private of Nasdaq-listed Sanderson Farms and simultaneous formation of joint venture with Continental Grain and private acquisition of Wayne Farms.
Represented Cargill, Inc. in connection with Cargill Animal Nutrition’s divestiture of its formulation and mill management software platforms.
Represented Cargill, Inc. in connection with a joint venture between Cargill Bioindustrials and HELM for the production and distribution of bio-based butanediol.
Represented Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. in connection with a US$450M Note offering.