Jesse Van Genugten is an associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. He is a member of the firm’s Project Development & Finance Practice.

Mr. Van Genugten represents a variety of financial institutions, private equity firms, strategic sponsors, and developers in connection with project financings, acquisition financings, and other energy and infrastructure-related secured lending and tax equity transactions.

He maintains an active pro bono practice, representing individuals seeking asylum and working on other immigration-related matters.

Mr. Van Genugten’s experience includes representing:

Renewables

  • Apex Clean Energy in the debt and tax equity financings of the 225 MW Great Pathfinder Wind Project in Iowa
  • Lenders and lead arrangers in the construction debt and tax equity financing of a 265.5 MW wind project in Texas
  • Clearway Energy in the debt financing of two solar and battery storage projects in California with a combined generation capacity of 463 MW and 744 MWh of battery storage
  • Ørsted A/S in the tax equity financing of an offshore wind project in New York
  • Sponsor in the combined debt and tax equity financings of two wind and battery storage projects in California and Texas
  • Sponsor in the holdco financing of a portfolio of approximately thirty solar, wind and battery projects across the US
  • Earthrise Energy in the construction debt and tax equity financing of the 270 MW Gibson City Solar Project in Illinois
  • Tax equity investor in the project financing of a 110 MW solar project in Texas
  • Sponsor in the holdco financing of an approximately 6 GW development pipeline of solar and battery projects across the US
  • Lenders and lead arrangers in the holdco financing of a portfolio of nine construction-stage and operating wind and solar projects, as well as a development pipeline of renewable assets in the US
  • Lenders in the refinancing of the 210 MW Cerro Dominador project located in Chile
  • Radial Power in back-leverage debt financing of a portfolio of distributed generation projects, encompassing commercial, industrial and community solar assets
  • Sponsor in the holdco financing and letter of credit facility for a portfolio of development-stage solar projects in the Midwest
  • Noteholders in the private placement, issuing banks in the letter of credit facility and lenders in the back-leverage facility to finance the acquisition of a majority interest in a portfolio of thirteen utility-scale wind and solar projects*
  • Development financial institutions in refinancing of a geothermal power project in Latin America*

LNG

  • Venture Global in its approximately US$21 billion project financing for the Plaquemines LNG project located in Louisiana; the transaction was awarded Americas LNG Deal of the Year for 2022 by Project Finance International

Infrastructure

  • United States Department of Transportation on the refinancing of a US$465 million secured TIFIA loan to fund construction costs for the US$1.2 billion reconstruction of the I-70 East corridor in Colorado*

Conventional Power

  • Noteholders, lenders and issuing banks in the refinancing of a 314 MW natural gas electric generation facility in Colorado
  • Noteholders in the refinancing of a 370 MW natural gas electric generation facility in Florida
  • Sponsor in the refinancing of a gas-fired power facility in New Jersey

Alternative Fuels

  • Orion Infrastructure Capital in construction financing, DIP financing and bankruptcy proceedings related to the Bakersfield biofuels and renewable diesel refinery

Other

  • Commercial banks in asset-based financings of metals and commodities inventories*
  • BofA Securities and the other underwriters in notes offering by Penske Automotive Group*
  • Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and BMO Capital Markets Corp. in private placement by a subsidiary of Coronado Global Resources Inc.*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019
    cum laude
  • BA, Cornell University, 2016

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Dutch