Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised institutional investors and commercial bank lenders in the $685 million financing of the development, construction and operation of the Carlsbad Energy Center, a 500MW Natural Gas-Fired Generating Facility in Carlsbad, California. The project is sponsored by NRG Repowering Holdings LLC.
The Milbank team was led by Jonathan Green, partner and co-chair of Milbank’s Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group, with associates Michael Evry, Linda Brabant, Genevieve Fox and Delia Solomon.
Mr. Green said, “We’re extremely pleased to have represented the institutional investors and commercial banks on this financing. The Carlsbad Energy Center is an important green-field gas fired generation project serving one of California’s major population centers, and the transaction demonstrates the vitality of the bank/bond financing market for new high quality infrastructure projects.”