Chirag’s recent experience includes advising:
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
GPU/AI Infrastructure Financings
- Bank of America, Blackstone, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley, as the lead financial partners, in connection with a landmark US$63 billion financing structure to enable the deployment of more than 1.6 GW of AI compute capacity for Anthropic, leveraging Broadcom’s technology
- BlackRock in connection with NVIDIA’s strategic partnerships with capital providers to establish independent AI compute infrastructure financing platforms to mobilize over US$500 billion of third-party capital
- Arrangers and lenders to CoreWeave on:
- US$8.5 billion DDTL to finance a Meta contract, the first investment-grade GPU financing in the market
- US$3.1 billion DDTL to finance an OpenAI and Cohere contract, the first term loan B GPU financing ever
- US$2.6 billion DDTL (DDTL 5.5), extending CoreWeave’s HPC infrastructure-backed financing platform by broadening the scope of customer contracts eligible for publicly syndicated infrastructure financing
- US$2.6 billion DDTL to finance an OpenAI contract
- Arrangers and lenders to IREN on:
- US$3.6 billion DDTL and 4(a)(2) to finance a Microsoft contract
- US$2.6 billion DDTL
- Arrangers and lenders to Lambda in connection with:
- Approximately US$1 billion Term Loan B to finance an NVIDIA contract
- Approximately US$1 billion DDTL to finance a Microsoft and Amazon contract
- Multiple hyperscalers in connection with financings and joint ventures for GPUs, data centers, and other AI infrastructure
- Various other GPU financings involving NScale, Volta, Vultr, Firmus, and other Neoclouds
Data Center Financings
- Arrangers and lenders in connection with a US$3.25 billion term loan B financing for Blackstone-backed QTS Realty Trust LLC
- Blackstone in connection with a data center financing for CoreWeave
- Ares in connection with multiple financings for EdgeConnex
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
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
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, term loan B and 4(a)(2) financings, including:
- Pacifica – a US$250+ million term loan A construction financing for a portfolio of over 325 MW of battery energy storage system projects
- Argonaut – multiple term loan B acquisition financings for the portfolio of assets
- 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
- Apollo in its US$8.5 billion joint venture with Keurig Dr Pepper
- 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
