Chirag K. Dedania

Chirag’s recent experience includes advising:

LNG

• Venture Global on numerous matters, including:
  • CP2 (Phases 1 and 2) – Over US$23 billion loan financings, including multiple opco and holdco loan facilities, recognized as IJGlobal’s 2025 Oil & Gas Deal of the Year in North America
  • Plaquemines LNG (Phases 1 and 2) – US$21.0 billion term loan A project financing, consisting of a US$13.2 billion phase one investment and US$7.8 billion phase two investment
  • Calcasieu Pass LNG – US$5.8 billion term loan A project financing
  • Multiple 144A bond issuances by various Venture Global entities, including nearly US$10 billion in 144A bond offerings for Venture Global Plaquemines in 2025, recognized as IJGlobal Investor Americas Awards’ 2025 Bond of the Year, North America
• Apollo in connection with a more than US$7 billion equity financing and investment in Sempra’s Port Arthur Phase 2 Project
• The note purchasers in connection with the US$1 billion private placement in 2024, and the US$2 billion private placement in 2026, for Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG Phase 1
• MidOcean in connection with multiple acquisitions and financings

Digital Infrastructure

GPU/AI/Data Center Financings

• Morgan Stanley and MUFG in connection with:
  • A US$8.5 billion delayed draw term loan to a subsidiary of CoreWeave to finance a Meta contract, the first investment-grade GPU financing in the market
  • A US$2.6 billion delayed draw term loan to subsidiaries of CoreWeave to finance an OpenAI contract
• Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan in connection with a US$3.6 billion delayed draw term loan to a subsidiary of IREN, to finance a Microsoft contract
• Lenders in connection with multiple multi-billion dollar delayed draw term loan financings to multiple borrowers, including for NScale, CoreWeave, Vultr, and Lambda
• Multiple hyperscalers in connection with financings and joint ventures for GPUs, data centers, and other AI infrastructure
• NScale in multiple data center financings
• Ares in connection with multiple financings for EdgeConnex

Tower Financings

• Ares on:
  • Multiple financings of Vertical Bridge’s tower portfolio, including acquisition financing for a large tower portfolio from Verizon
  • The US$1 billion Tillman Infrastructure first-lien tower portfolio financings

Other

• Co-investors of Apollo in connection with a US$11.3 billion private placement to finance the partial acquisition and construction of a wafer fabrication facility in development by Intel Corporation, which IJGlobal gave the Digital Infrastructure Innovation Award for Europe

Power and Energy Transition

Sponsor-Side Representations

• Treaty Oak Clean Energy in connection with:
  • A US$300 million development loan financing for its portfolio of renewable assets
  • An over US$400 million financing for Beekman solar
  • An approximately US$400 million financing for Hollis Creek solar
• ArcLight Capital Partners on numerous term loan B, term loan A, and private placement financings, including:
  • Middletown – the US$350 million acquisition financing of the Middletown Generating Facility
• Middle River Power on numerous term loan A financings, including:
  • Project Silver – a US$800+ million term loan A financing of over 1.8 GW of thermal power assets in California in connection with the sale of such assets to a continuation fund
  • Pacifica – a US$250+ million term loan A construction financing for a portfolio of over 325 MW of battery energy storage system projects
• Earthrise Energy in connection with:
  • A US$100+ million portfolio financing facility of its thermal and renewable assets
  • An approximately US$350 million portfolio term loan B financing for its thermal power assets
• Invenergy in connection with a US$1+ billion project financing of a portfolio of three solar assets

Lender-Side Representations (Term Loan A)

• The coordinating lead arrangers and lenders on ContourGlobal plc’s US$600+ million term loan A refinancing of a portfolio of thermal assets located in New Mexico, Texas, and California
• The coordinating lead arrangers and lenders on multiple financings for Calpine’s Geysers geothermal portfolio in California, including the 2022 financing for US$2.1+ billion

Lender-Side Representations (Term Loan B)

• Morgan Stanley in connection with:
  • The US$1.25 billion refinancing of the Cogentrix power assets after their acquisition by Quantum
  • The US$850+ million refinancing of the South Field Energy gas-fired power project in Ohio, which IJGlobal recognized as the Power & Transmission Deal of the Year in North America
• Jefferies in connection with the US$1.1 billion financing of the nearly 1,000 MW Linden 1-6 gas-fired cogeneration projects located in Linden, New Jersey

Oil & Gas and Midstream

• ArcLight Capital Partners on multiple financings, including:
  • LHT/Gulf – multiple financings including LHT’s US$360+ million term loan and US$250 million ABL financing in 2024
  • Salamanca and Delta House – the construction financing of floating production systems in the Gulf of Mexico
• Orion Infrastructure Capital (OIC) in connection with the US$800+ million financing for constructing and converting the Bakersfield refinery into a biofuels refinery

Other Infrastructure

• Ara Partners and its portfolio company Vacuumschmelze in connection with the US$335 million project financing of its rare earth metal manufacturing facility in South Carolina
• Duration Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of Consolidated Chassis Midstream
• Apollo in its US$8.5 billion joint venture with Keurig Dr Pepper