Claudia Martin

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Martin’s experience includes the representation of project sponsors and financial institutions on a range of project development, financing and corporate transactions across the digital infrastructure, power and transportation sectors. Her recent representations include: 

• A group of approximately 20 lenders in connection with the approximately $20 billion financing for the development, construction, operation and maintenance of a megascale data center campus in New Mexico led by Blue Owl Capital in partnership with STACK Infrastructure to develop a next-generation AI data center campus to be leased to Oracle and delivered under the umbrella of the Stargate initiative.
• Switch in connection with nearly $10 billion of data center financings, including project financings, corporate revolvers and borrowing base facilities.
• The lenders in connection with a $4.5 billion bridge loan facility in connection with the development, construction, operation and maintenance of the Borrower’s 1.4 GW data center located in Shackelford County, Texas.
• Brookfield Asset Management, through its infrastructure debt platform, in connection with the financing of a $750 million credit facility to Crusoe to support the growth of its AI cloud infrastructure located in Abilene, Texas and delivered under the umbrella of the Stargate initiative.
• Galaxy Digital in connection with the $1.4 billion financing of its data center campus in West Texas.
• The lenders in connection with a $1.15 billion financing for the construction and development of a 120MW data center located in Georgia for DC BLOX.
• The lenders in connection with the $200 million financing for the construction, development, operation and maintenance of three data centers located in Chile for EdgeConnex.
• Nexus Water Group in connection with its approximately $2 billion unsecured corporate credit facilities entered into in connection with the business combination of Corix’s water, wastewater and related businesses, with SouthWest Water Company’s water and wastewater businesses, which will operate in 20 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. 
• Texas Water Utilities as issuer in connection with a private placement offering in an aggregate principal amount of $200 million.
• The lenders in connection with the project financing of a permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Sumter County, South Carolina.
• ING Capital, as lender, in connection with a bridge loan facility to finance the acquisition of a 840 MWDC solar and 225 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio of projects in New Mexico by Exus North America. Part of the bridge loan facility proceeds will also be available to fund project costs for the TAG Project – a development project with installed capacity of 140 MW and 60 MW BESS in New Mexico.
• The lenders in connection with the development, construction, ownership, leasing, operation and maintenance of a natural gas storage project located in Anderson County, Texas, of which Phase 1 includes the development, construction and operation of approximately 24 billion cubic feet gas storage and related facilities.
• The lenders in connection with a series of financings in connection with and for Brookfield’s acquisition of Duke Energy Renewables.
• LS Power in leading a $25 million financing with a commitment of $400 million to be invested into Monarch Energy’s (a California-based green hydrogen project developer) large-scale electrolyzer projects to deliver green hydrogen to refining, chemicals, fertilizer, long-haul transport, and other hard-to-decarbonize industries.
• Global Container Terminals Inc. (GCT) on the sale of GCT Bayonne and GCT New York, two container terminals in New Jersey and New York, to CMA CGM Group, a global shipping and logistics leader based in Marseille, France, and the refinancing of GCT’s existing indebtedness for two leading container terminals in the Port of Vancouver, GCT Vanterm and GCT Deltaport providing over 3.5 million TEU’s of capacity through Canada’s Pacific Gateway.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Martin earned her J.D. and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Ms. Martin is a native French speaker.