Yoichi Katayama
Partner
TokyoYoichi represents multinational developers and financial institutions in international power, telecommunications and other infrastructure projects.
Prior to joining Orrick, Yoichi served as a general counsel for Tomen Power Corporation. He was also an associate general counsel at Tomen America Inc. in New York.
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- GE Energy Financial, advising
debt and equity financing for the 231 MW photovoltaic plants being built in
Setouchi, Okayama prefecture.
- Green Power Investment Corp.
(GPI) in its development of 126.5 MW wind energy project in Japan, which will
be the largest wind energy project in the country.
- A Japanese company investing in
the first utility scale solar PV project finance in the United States, which
was awarded “Renewables Deal of the Year 2010.”
- A Japanese company and a Japanese
utility in a strategic partnership to acquire 50 percent ownership stakes in a
natural gas-fueled combined cycle power generating facility in Brampton,
Ontario, Canada.
- A Japanese company and a Korean
company in concluding a joint-venture arrangement with a Philippine investment
company, for Asia's first large-scale wind power project in the Philippines.
- A Japanese company in formation
and structuring of a US$200 million fund, one of the world's largest investment
funds for global wind energy projects.
- A Japanese utility in acquisition
of U.S. power portfolio assets.
- A Japanese renewable start-up
company in arranging U.S. private equity investors and Japanese strategic
investors’ participation.
- A Japanese company in the
disposition of U.S. gas power plants.
- A Japanese company's joint
venture/investment in holding company for worldwide development of wind power
plants.
- A Japanese company investing in a
series of wind development projects in Spain which was awarded “Renewable deal
of the Year 2003.”
- The first project finance wind
energy projects and IPP projects in Japan.
- A leading Japanese trading
company in the establishment of a joint venture with foreign investors in order
to establish one of Japan's largest CATV systems and interactive broadband
networks.
- A Japanese company in the
acquisition of a Hungarian electrical power generation company under Hungary’s
new privatization laws.
- A Japanese company and foreign
company's joint venture in Hungary for the country's first project finance
gas-fired power generation facility.
- A Japanese company investing in
the largest wind energy project in Italy and series of wind development projects
in Spain.
- Lenders, investors, developers, owners and contractors generally in projects located in various countries, including Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Norway, England, France and the United States.
- GE Energy Financial, advising
debt and equity financing for the 231 MW photovoltaic plants being built in
Setouchi, Okayama prefecture.
