Christopher Moore

Christopher J. Moore is a Deputy Business Unit Leader of the Energy & Infrastructure Group. Chris has extensive and varied experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors including both project finance and corporate transactions and is regularly responsible for structuring complex financings.

• Engagements

  
  

  Chris's recent representative transactions include:

  • representation of sponsor in the construction and tax equity financing for an 84MW wind project in Texas;

  • representation of sponsor in the sale of four renewable projects in Japan;

  • represented purchasers in the $2.4 billion acquisition of First Wind and its portfolio of wind and solar projects in various stages of development, construction and operation;

  • representation of sponsor of a portfolio of merchant wind projects with energy hedges in different states and at different stages of completion in complex multistep tax equity financing using a partnership flip structure, construction financing and the sale of the cash equity in stages;

  • representation of a sponsor of a wind project in a tax equity financing followed immediately by the sale of a substantial portion of the cash equity interest to multiple cash equity investors;

  • representation of a developer in the sale of a development stage utility scale solar project;

  • representation of a sponsor in connection with the sale leaseback of a wind project which incorporated the Treasury cash grant;

  • represented an investor in the acquisition of a minority interest in and financing of the Cricket Valley Energy Center, an approximately 1,100 MW combined-cycle natural gas electric generating facility in Dover, New York;

  • representation of a public power entity in connection with various lease financings; and

  • representation of an electric cooperative in a tax equity transaction for a refined coal facility utilizing PTCs.