Naomi Y. Moncarz

Naomi Y. Moncarz

Associate, Energy and Infrastructure Projects

Bio

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

Credentials

Education

  • J.D., New York University School of Law, 2018
  • A.B., Washington University in St. Louis, 2011

Admissions

  • New York

Naomi Y. Moncarz

Associate, Energy and Infrastructure Projects
naomi.moncarz@skadden.com