Chirag K. Dedania

Mr. Dedania's recent experience includes representing:

Power and Energy Transition

• ArcLight Capital Partners in connection with numerous portfolio company, commercial bank, private placement, and other financings, including:
  • The over US$1.2 billion acquisition financing of the Parkway Generation Assets from PSEG
  • The over US$400 million acquisition financing of the Generation Bridge II Assets from PSEG
  • Multiple financings in connection with their interests in the Sydney Murray Hydro facility in Louisiana
  • A term loan A financing of their Leeward Renewables portfolio
• Avenue Capital / Middle River Power in connection with numerous portfolio company, commercial bank, private placement, and other financings, including:
  • A continuation fund financing for numerous California power assets
  • A refinancing in the term loan A market of a portfolio of geothermal assets in California
  • An acquisition financing in the term loan A market of their Tracy, Hanford and Henrietta gas-fired projects
  • A refinancing in the term loan A market of their High Desert gas-fired project in California
  • A private placement of notes in connection with their Big Sandy and Wolf Hills gas-fired projects in PJM
  • An acquisition and subsequent private placement of debt in connection with numerous gas-fired projects in California
• Multiple lenders and arrangers across from Strategic Value Partners and GenOn, including:
  • The joint lead arrangers in connection with GenOn’s Heritage power portfolio financing in the term loan B market
  • The lead arranger in connection with GenOn’s Bowline financing
  • The lenders in connection with Genon’s Ormond Beach and Ellwood financing
  • The lenders in connection with GenOn’s Lanyard financing
• The coordinating lead arrangers and lenders in connection with multiple financings for Calpine’s Geysers geothermal portfolio in California, including the most recent over $2.1 billion financing in 2022. The original 2020 financing transaction earned IJGlobal’s 2020 North American Renewables (Geothermal) Deal of the Year.
• QIC and the other lenders in connection with the US$450 million Topco Secured Financing of Cypress Creek Renewables
• The note purchasers in connection with a 4(a)(2) private placement of Duke's Texoma wind portfolio
• The joint lead arrangers in the term loan B refinancing of the Linden power project in NJ

LNG

• Venture Global in connection with multiple assets and financing, including:
  • The term loan A financing of its US$5.7 billion term loan A project financing for Calcasieu Pass LNG
  • Multiple bond refinancings for Calcasieu Pass LNG
  • The over US$13 billion Plaquemines LNG project financing
  • Numerous upsizings and bridge facilities
• Cheniere in connection with over US$15 billion in commercial bank and bond offerings in connection with Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P., and its subsidiaries and projects (including the Sabine Pass liquefaction terminal, Sabine Pass regasification terminal, and Creole Trail Pipeline)
• Dominion Energy in the US$3 billion commercial bank financing of the Cove Point liquefaction project
• Blackstone Energy Partners in connection with its sale of equity in Cheniere Energy Partners to Brookfield and Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, along with multiple 4(a)(2) private placement back-leveragings of upstream equity

Oil and Gas; Midstream

• ArcLight Capital Partners in connection with multiple financings, including:
  • The term loan B and revolving construction financing of the Limetree Refinery and Terminal in St. Croix
  • The term loan A construction financing of the Delta House floating production system in Louisiana
  • The term loan B and ABL financing of Gulf
• The joint lead arrangers in the term loan B, term loan A, and revolving acquisition financing of Brookfield’s acquisition of Enbridge’s pipeline assets in Canada
• The note purchasers in connection with a 4(a)(2) private placement back-leveraging of OMERS’ acquisition of an interest in the BridgeTex pipeline
• The joint lead arrangers in the term loan B and revolving acquisition financing of Blackrock’s acquisition of the Glass Mountain pipeline
• The borrower in the term loan A construction financing of ONEOK and Fermaca’s Roadrunner Natural Gas Pipeline running from Texas to Mexico
• GSO Capital Partners in multiple second lien financings, including for Ascent Resources – Utica, LLC (formerly known as American Energy - Utica, LLC) and Legacy Reserves

Other Infrastructure

• Orion Energy Partners in connection with multiple senior secured financings, including:
  • The acquisition over US$500 million financing, construction and conversion of the Bakersfield Refinery into a biofuels refinery
  • The financing of a plastics recycling company
  • Multiple other financings, including for Caliche Coastal, the Keystone terminal, Tiger Group, and Highland Pellets
• AMP Capital and CDPQ in connection with the Tillman Infrastructure first lien tower portfolio financing
• AMP Capital in connection with multiple holdco financings for EdgeConnex, Inc.
• AMP Capital in connection with a holdco financing of Vertical Bridge’s tower portfolio financing
• Brookfield in connection with the refinancing of the Keystone terminal