J. Alexander Cooke

Mr. Cooke advises investors, sponsors, lenders and digital infrastructure companies on complex domestic and cross-border M&A, project development, project and structured finance, offtake arrangements, and tax monetization transactions across sectors, including renewables, power transmission, oil and gas, utilities and digital infrastructure.

Mr. Cooke has advised on a number of high-profile transactions, including:

• NFE Brazil Financing Limited, a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy Inc., in a 4(a)(2) private placement of up to $350 million in senior secured notes to funds managed by Lumina Capital Management
• TransAlta Holdings U.S. Inc. in $175 million of loan facilities provided to Nova Clean Energy, LLC, which is developing wind, solar and battery storage projects
• Pattern Energy in:
  • debt and equity financings of the $11 billion SunZia 550-mile transmission line and related renewable generation projects
  • the tax equity financings of its 1,050 MW Western Spirit wind generation projects in New Mexico
  • the tax equity financings of, and sales of minority interests in, its 220.5 MW Grady and 324 MW Broadview wind generation projects
  • the $346 million acquisition of 200 MW Post Rock and 150 MW Lost Creek wind generation projects in Kansas and Missouri from Wind Capital Group
• Shelf Drilling in its $1.05 billion acquisition of shallow water drilling rigs from Transocean Ltd. and subsequent financings totaling more than $2.6 billion in the aggregate
• InterGen N.V. in its sale of its Mexico business for an enterprise value of $1.26 billion, which included 2.2 GW of combined-cycle gas turbine projects, a 155 MW wind project with its partner IEnova, three gas compression stations and a 65-kilometer gas pipeline
• Citizens Energy’s subsidiaries in $174 million in private placement debt financings of leasehold interests in electric transmission lines in southern California
• Lotus Infrastructure in the debt financing of the 125-mile, 500-kV Ten West Link transmission line connecting Tonopah, Arizona, and Blythe, California
• Luminace in its more than $400 million first-of-its-kind C&I solar asset-backed securitization
• Emera Inc. in its sale of Emera Maine, its regulated electric transmission and distribution company in Maine, to ENMAX Corporation for an enterprise value of $1.3 billion