Jesse Van Genugten

Jesse’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 bridge 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
• Sponsor in the debt financing for a 650 MW solar project in Texas
• 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 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
• Clearway Energy in the debt financing of a 113.5 MW battery storage project in California
• Clearway Energy in the debt financing of a 200 MW solar project in California
• 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*

Conventional Power

• Energy Capital Partners in the acquisition of a majority interest in ProEnergy Holdings, a vertically integrated aeroderivative gas turbine platform with a 2.4 GW fleet of contracted peakers in Texas
• 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

Digital Infrastructure

• 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 (awarded the Europe Digital Infrastructure Innovation Award by IJGlobal)
• Lenders and institutional investors in the US$8.5 billion delayed draw term loan facility to finance the expansion of CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform (the first ever investment-grade rated financing secured by HPC infrastructure and an associated customer contract)

Alternative Fuels

• Orion Infrastructure Capital in construction financing, DIP financing, bankruptcy proceedings, and exit financing related to the Bakersfield biofuels and renewable diesel refinery (recognized in Turnarounds & Workouts 2025 “Largest Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases" and “Successful Restructurings" Special Reports)

LNG

• Venture Global in its approximately US$21 billion project financing for the Plaquemines LNG project located in Louisiana (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*

Other

• Private credit fund in the debt financing of a real estate asset in Louisiana
• 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