Louise Gibbons

Louise's practice focuses on project financings, M&A transactions and joint ventures, with a focus in the renewable energy industry.  She is the global deputy leader of Orrick’s Energy and Infrastructure Group.

• Engagements

  • Chevron New Energies in a joint venture to develop, construct and own a green waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Richmond, California. 
  • Primergy in the sale of a minority stake in the US$1.2 billion 690 MW solar + 380 MW storage Gemini project outside of Las Vegas to APG, the largest pension asset manager in the Netherlands.
  • Intersect in two tax equity financings with U.S. Bank and a Fortune 100 technology company that were part of a US$3.1 billion financing for a 1.5 GW of solar + 1 GWh storage portfolio.
  • Generate Capital in an equity investment in Amp Americas, which operates seven of the largest dairy biogas-to-transportation fuel projects in the United States.
  • Distributed Solar Development, a subsidiary of BlackRock, in a $300 million warehouse debt financing and $85 million tax equity financing of solar assets in the community solar and commercial and industrial space.
  • 8minutenergy (now Avantus) in the sale of numerous large-scale solar photovoltaic projects located in California and Texas.
  • A global integrated energy company in a joint venture with a renewable energy developer to co-develop renewable power projects adjacent to the client's existing facilities around the world.
  • One of the largest developers and operators of renewables projects in the U.S. in the project financing of 4 wind projects, which included two repowering and joint venture arrangements to safe harbor equipment.
  • The sponsor in the first non-recourse debt financing of a portfolio of behind-the-meter storage projects, the 2017 IJGlobal North America Energy Storage Deal of the Year.
  • A global renewable energy developer in the sale of a 200 MW solar project in Mexico.
  • A leading global renewable energy company in the tax equity financings of numerous wind and solar projects across the U.S.
  • The borrower in the debt financing of a 500 MW natural gas-fired generating facility, located in San Diego County, California, which included both a commercial bank funded facility and the private placement of two tranches of long-term, credit agency rated notes.
  • A private equity fund in the development and equity raise for an 869 MW natural gas-fired electric power plant in the City of Oregon, Ohio.
  • A solar developer in the mezzanine debt financing of a portfolio of solar projects in Kern County, California.
  • A renewable energy developer in the tax equity financing of two solar projects in San Bernardino County, California.
  • The lead agent and major institutional lender in the project financing and refinancing of a portfolio of 39 hydroelectric power projects located throughout the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.