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Rob Warfield

Partner

New York

Rob's practice focuses on project finance transactions and infrastructure-related investments across a broad spectrum of global private equity and credit strategies.

He has experience representing financial institutions, sponsors, investors, and lenders in energy and infrastructure financings, acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Rob was a member of the legal investments team at a global investment firm in New York, where he supported private equity and credit investments across infrastructure and other asset classes. He also worked in private practice at leading international law firms.

    • Carlyle Infrastructure Credit in various transactions, including:
      • $845 million senior secured notes issuances by a portfolio of airport parking facilities managed by The Parking Spot;
      • the senior US private placement facility as part of a $1.35 billion financing of seawater impulsion systems for mining operations of Minera Centinela and Minera Antucoya, Chile;
      • its participation in CoreWeave’s $7.5 billion senior secured financing of AI hyperscale assets;
      • the $150 million senior secured borrowing base facility to finance a development portfolio of solar assets owned by Pine Gate Renewables;
      • a revolving back-leverage financing of tax equity funding provided by an institutional investor for a solar portfolio; and
      • additional senior secured portfolio and project financings and notes issuances used to fund development, construction and operations of various energy and infrastructure assets, including offshore LNG, transmission, gas pipeline, power, fiber, solar, parking, transport and data center projects;
    • Carlyle’s Global Infrastructure private equity platform in various transactions, including:
      • a $300 million corporate and development loan and several construction and tax equity project financings in excess of $1.5 billion for its portfolio company Copia Power;
      • its upsized commitment and partial exit of its interest in NineDot Energy to Manulife in a transaction with $225 million of new commitments;
      • its debt and preferred equity funding of Amp Energy and subsequent acquisition and restructuring of Amp’s Australian and UK solar and battery assets as Revera Energy; and
      • a first-of-its-kind mezzanine financing of two portfolio companies that own U.S.-based solar assets;
    • Carlyle Power Partners in various transactions, including:
      • the $3 billion sale of Cogentrix Energy to Quantum Energy Partners;
      • the sale of its Walton, Georgia power plant to Oglethorpe Power;
      • the sale of its Monroe, Georgia and Sandersville, Georgia power plants to Harbert Management Corporation; and
      • the $1.115 billion term loan B dividend recap financing of its Hamilton power plants in PJM.
    • Brookfield on its $30 billion joint venture with Intel, with Brookfield investing up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in an Intel semiconductor fabrication facility in Chandler, Arizona.
    • A KKR- and GIP-led consortium in the financing of the consortium’s acquisition of CyrusOne Inc., a global data center REIT, in a transaction valued at approximately $15 billion.
    • Blackstone and TDI, in the $6 billion financing of the CHPE transmission line, planned to deliver 1,250 MW of hydropower from Canada to New York City.
    • A joint venture of two market-leading private equity funds in their $3.9 billion term loan B and bond refinancing secured by the joint venture’s indirect interests in a large domestic LNG export facility.
    • KKR, in connection with the financing of its acquisition of the Atlantic Aviation business.
    • NextEra in transactions providing for its sale of an interest in a 1,000 MW portfolio of solar and wind facilities to a KKR-led consortium and to NextEra Energy Partners.
    • The 13 initial lead arrangers, lenders and issuing banks in the approximately $5.8 billion debt financing of Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass 10 MTPA LNG export project.
    • Morgan Stanley in a $220 million term loan facility to Venture Global in 2018, to finance the development of its Calcasieu Pass, Plaquemines and Delta LNG export facilities and related pipelines.
    • A Société Générale- and Morgan Stanley-led syndicate in connection with the $635.7 million financing of EIG’s 49% interest in Kinder Morgan’s Elba Island LNG export project.
    • The placement agent, issuing banks and lenders, in two private placements of senior secured notes (totaling $421.4 million and $498.7 million, respectively) and letter of credit facilities to finance multiple portfolios of sPower’s operating solar and wind facilities.
    • Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, as sponsor, in connection with the $369 million senior secured refinancing of the 805 MW Red Oak gas-fired power plant.

    *Experience includes that prior to joining Orrick.