Jiyeon Chun represents clients in project financings related to energy transition and renewable energy assets.

Jiyeon advises sponsors, developers, equity investors, commercial banks, and other financial institutions on complex transactions involving:

  • Wind and solar projects
  • Battery storage facilities
  • Natural gas and combined cycle power plants

She leverages an up-to-the-minute understanding of shifting legal and market landscapes to help clients navigate the complexities inherent in renewable energy and energy transition projects, including tax equity structures, financing mechanisms, and compliance requirements.

Jiyeon’s experience includes advising:

Sponsors

  • Invenergy on a US$1.1 billion debt financing facility for three solar projects in Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee
  • Innergex Renewable Energy on its US$322.7 million tax equity commitment
  • Cordelio Power on debt and tax equity financing for a 171 MW wind project
  • Treaty Oak Clean Energy on a US$300 million senior secured corporate credit facility
  • Con Edison on a US$6.8 billion agreement to sell interests in its renewable energy subsidiaries
  • The sponsor on project refinancing and a bond offering for a 199-mile natural gas pipeline between the US and Mexico
  • The sponsor on project financing for an LNG liquefaction facility
  • The sponsor on tax equity back-leverage financing for a portfolio of residential solar systems
  • The borrower on debt financing for repowering three wind farms

Investors, Lenders & Noteholders

  • The lenders on a US$1.1 billion financing of Tallgrass’ carbon capture and sequestration project
  • The lenders on Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project
  • The lenders on Leeward Renewable Energy’s US$1.25 billion construction warehouse facility
  • Jefferies Finance on the US$100 million project financing of the 1,145 MW Bowline gas-fired electric generating facility in New York
  • The lenders on project financing to acquire a company that owns, operates, and acquires clean energy projects contracted by a global infrastructure fund
  • Jefferies Finance and Morgan Stanley on the US$619 million project refinancing of a portfolio of 16 gas- and fuel-generation facilities with an aggregate capacity of approximately 2,435 MW in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio
  • The lenders on project financing for a highway pipeline originating in the Permian Basin and terminating near Sheridan, Texas
  • The lenders on project financing in connection with the construction of a 485 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Hannibal, Ohio

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Harvard Law School, 2016
  • BA in Political Science, Berkeley College, 2011

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Korean