Naomi Y. Moncarz

Naomi Moncarz focuses her practice on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure-related projects.

Notable representations include advising:

• the lenders and issuing banks in connection with the closing of two project financings totaling approximately $15 billion to finance both phases of Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG export project located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
• a syndicate of banks in a $4.2 billion financing of a petrochemical facility developed by Chevron Phillips Chemical and QatarEnergy in the State of Qatar
• the commercial lenders and agents in the closing of a $3.8 billion term loan, as part of $5.1 billion senior debt facility, to finance the construction and commissioning of the U.S. Gulf Coast II Petrochemical Project in Orange County, Texas, for the production of olefins and polyolefins
• the lenders in connection with the approximately $700 million project financing of a solar project developed by Parliament Solar, including a construction loan, term loan, letter of credit facility and first- of-its-kind unguaranteed bridge facility supported primarily by the prospective future sale of tax credits to be generated by the project
• the lenders in connection with the approximately $600 million project financing of the Ash Creek Solar project developed by Primergy, including a construction loan, term loan bridge loan and letter of credit facility
• the lenders in connection with the approximately $320 million project financing of a portfolio of three solar projects in the Midwest, consisting of a construction and term loan, and tax credit transfer or tax equity bridge loan (without committed tax credit transfer or tax equity arrangements in place at closing)
• Barclays in connection with its tax equity investment in a 300 MW solar project in Texas developed by SB Energy
• the sponsor in connection with a $230 million construction, bridge and term loan project financing for a portfolio of three solar projects, based in part on the future transfer of tax credits or entry into tax equity financing
• the sponsor in connection with a $200 million back-leverage private placement financing of a portfolio of solar projects
• the initial purchasers in the inaugural high-yield issuance of $4.5 billion of notes for Venture Global LNG
• the lenders under a corporate revolving credit facility to Cheniere Energy, Inc.
• the lenders under a corporate revolving credit facility to Tenaska Marketing Ventures, the natural gas marketing subsidiary of Tenaska Energy
• the underwriters on two separate sovereign bond offerings by the State of Qatar, raising more than $22 billion in aggregate