Cameron B. Lyons

Cameron’s experience includes representing:

Renewables

• Commercial bank lenders in Aypa Power’s US$1.5 billion construction warehouse facility
• Terra-Gen in multiple construction debt and tax equity financings of multiple battery storage projects, wind projects, solar projects, and combined battery storage and solar projects
• BrightNight in a US$510 million corporate-level development credit facility
• Earthrise Energy in the construction debt and tax equity financing of the 270 MW Gibson City solar project in Illinois
• Commercial bank lenders in the US$900 million construction and bridge financing of a portfolio of storage and battery storage projects owned by Vistra Corp.
• Commercial bank lenders in the US$1 billion construction financing of Calpine Corporation’s 680 MW Nova BESS Project in Riverside County, California
• Purchasers in multiple federal tax credit purchase and sale transactions, and lenders and sponsors in related financing transactions
• The note purchasers in multiple 4(a)(2) note issuances for a dynamic portfolio of AES Clean Energy renewable energy projects
• Commercial bank lenders in AES Clean Energy’s US$3.0 billion construction warehouse facility (Proximo’s 2022 Deal of the Year)
• Cordelio Power in the construction debt and tax equity financing of multiple battery storage projects, wind projects, and solar projects
• Apex Clean Energy in the construction debt financing of multiple wind projects
• Innergex Renewable Energy in the construction debt financing of the 300 MW Boswell Springs Wind Project in Albany County, Wyoming
• 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 (PFI’s Global ESG Deal of the Year)
• Vivint Solar in several multi-party residential solar project portfolio financings, including cash and tax equity, and senior debt components
• SunStrong Capital Holdings in a US$216 million private placement back-leveraged debt financing of three separate portfolios of rooftop solar systems, each with separate tax-equity financings

Power

• Earthrise Energy in the US$360 million term loan B financing of a portfolio of thermal projects
• The lenders in the refinancing of the 1,145 MW Bowline Generating Station in West Haverstraw, New York
• First Citizens Bank in multiple equipment and construction financings 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
• AMP Capital in the direct-lending mezzanine financing of the 1,875 MW Guernsey Power Project
• Castleton Commodities International in the refinancing of a portfolio of thermal power projects
• The coordinating lead arranger in a term loan B refinancing of the Channelview natural-gas fueled cogeneration facility
• Invenergy 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

• Vision RNG in LFG to RNG construction and tax credit bridge financings for multiple projects, including the Laurel Ridge Project in Corbin, Kentucky, the Tunnel Hill Project in New Lexington, Ohio, and the Seneca Project in Fostoria, Ohio
• ArcLight Capital Partners in the term loan B acquisition financing of an interest in the Gulf Coast Express natural gas pipeline
• Term loan A lenders in the financing of NextEra Energy Partners’ acquisition of an interest in the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline
• A Cheniere subsidiary in the Midship natural gas pipeline’s term loan A construction financing (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 Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility’s construction financing (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, 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 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 in the direct-lending mezzanine financing of data centers 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

• Macquire Group in a US$350 turbine equipment financing for Fermi America
• A Fortune 500 energy company in multiple CDS-backed letter of credit facilities and secured letter of credit facilities
• Transit Energy Group 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, the leading provider of entertainment and connectivity services to airlines and cruise lines, in its chapter 11 debtor-in-possession financing