Cameron B. Lyons

Mr. Lyons’ experience includes representing:

Renewables

• Commercial bank lenders in the construction financing of the 800 MW Vineyard Wind Project, the first large-scale offshore wind project in the United States
• Ares Capital Corporation in the construction debt and tax equity financing of the 121 MW Ford Ridge Wind Project in Ford County, Illinois
• Terra-Gen in the construction financing of the 460 MWh Valley Center battery storage project in Valley Center, California
• Vivint Solar, Inc. in a US$300 million mezzanine debt financing with Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund
• The note purchasers in the mezzanine debt financing of Cypress Creek Renewables
• SunStrong Capital Holdings in connection with a US$216 million private placement back-leveraged debt financing of three separate portfolios of rooftop solar systems, each with separate tax-equity financings
• Vivint Solar, Inc. in several multi-party residential solar project portfolio financing structures, including cash and tax equity, and senior debt components
• Vivint Solar, Inc. in a private placement back-leveraging of four tax equity portfolios of rooftop solar systems
• Commercial bank lenders in a construction financing of an international power company’s interests in the Nobles 2 Wind Farm, a 250 MW onshore windfarm, and Clear Creek Energy Center, a 242 MW onshore windfarm
• Invenergy LLC, in a construction financing for a 202.5 MW onshore wind project
• A commercial bank in a tax equity financing of a portfolio of residential rooftop solar systems

Power

• Silicon Valley Bank in the back-levered construction financing of a portfolio of Bloom Energy fuel cell electricity generators
• The lead arrangers in the term loan B financing of I Squared Capital’s acquisition of Atlantic Power Corporation
• AMP Capital in the direct-lending mezzanine financing of the 1,875 MW Guernsey Power Project
• The coordinating lead arranger in a term loan B refinancing of the Channelview natural-gas fueled cogeneration facility
• Invenergy LLC in the 4(a)(2) note and Term Loan A construction financing of the Lackawanna Energy Center, a 1,485 MW gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania (Power Finance & Risk’s North America Conventional Power Project Finance Deal of 2016)

Oil & Gas

• Term loan A lenders in the financing of NextEra Energy Partners’ acquisition of an interest in the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline
• A subsidiary of Cheniere, Inc., in the term loan A construction financing of the Midship natural gas pipeline (IJGlobal’s North America Midstream O&G Deal of the Year 2019)
• ArcLight Capital Partners in the financing of a minority interest in a deep water offshore oil and gas processing facility
• Venture Global in the construction financing of the Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility (Project Finance International’s North America Deal of the Year 2019 and IJGlobal’s North America LNG Deal of the Year 2019)
• Sendero Midstream Partners, LP, a midstream natural gas company, in a revolving credit facility financing
• A private equity investment fund in the financing of a distressed offshore natural gas exploration and development asset

Infrastructure

• The commercial bank lenders in an approximately US$500 million construction financing of an alkylate production facility in Pasadena, Texas
• Orion Energy Partners in the construction financing of a wood pellet manufacturing facility in Arkansas
• Brookfield in connection with a direct term loan to a deep-water, dry bulk terminal in Jacksonville, Florida
• A private investment fund in the direct-lending construction financing of a magnesium recycling and production facility
• AMP Capital direct-lending mezzanine financing of data centers located in Chicago, Dublin, and Amsterdam
• The 4(a)(2) note purchasers in a project-level private placement and a holding company level private placement with respect to the Trans Bay Cable transmission line, a 53-mile DC electrical transmission cable under San Francisco Bay

Other

• A Fortune 500 energy company in multiple CDS-backed letter of credit facilities and secured letter of credit facilities
• Transit Energy Group, LLC and its subsidiaries, which own and operate fuel distribution and retail businesses in an asset-based loan financing and term loan financing
• Global Eagle Entertainment Inc., the leading provider of entertainment and connectivity services to airlines and cruise lines, in its chapter 11 debtor-in-possession financing