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Dahl Thompson

Partner

Houston

Dahl has extensive experience in a range of complex commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and project development and finance, with a particular emphasis on renewables. He is the global head of Orrick’s Energy and Infrastructure Group.

Dahl represents project sponsors/developers, private equity investors, utilities and strategic investors in all stages of structuring, financing, acquiring and disposing of energy projects and companies, including the negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale, joint development, shareholder, partnership and LLC operating, debt and equity financing, security and credit agreements. Over the last decade, Dahl has successfully closed transactions relating to projects totaling many thousands of megawatts and many billions of dollars in asset value.

    • A private equity investor in the formation of a joint venture investment vehicle and subsequent acquisition of a portfolio of 65 distributed solar projects located in multiple U.S. states.
    • A private equity investor in the acquisition of a portfolio of distributed solar projects located in the northeastern United States.
    • A private equity investor in the re-financing of a portfolio of operating distributed solar projects.
    • An investor-owned utility in the acquisition of several wind projects in Texas, New Mexico and Minnesota.
    • An investor-owned utility in a build-own-transfer acquisition of a solar project in the upper Midwestern United States.
    • A private equity investor in the acquisition and back-leverage financing of a portfolio of utility-scale solar projects in Minnesota.
    • A strategic investor in the acquisition of an ownership interest in a joint venture company owning multiple operating renewable energy projects located across 14 U.S. states.
    • A private investor in the acquisition of a cash equity interest in a portfolio of wind projects located in Texas and New Mexico.
    • A significant U.S.-based wind developer in its joint venture with a large Mexican industrial company to develop up to 1 GW of renewables projects in Mexico.
    • A utility in its acquisition of four wind projects in the Midwestern United States.
    • A strategic investor and a wind developer in the acquisition of a cash equity interest in a wind project located in Kansas.
    • Various sponsors/developers in the acquisition, development, and project financing of numerous wind and solar projects scattered across the United States, including (as a few examples): a 76 MW solar project in New Mexico; a 101.2 MW wind power project in Puerto Rico; an 80 MW wind power project in Idaho; a 124.5 MW wind power project in Idaho; a 14.5 MW solar project in Texas; and a 101.2 MW wind power project in California.