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Rob Freedman

Partner, Energy & Infrastructure

robertfreedman@paulhastings.com

Robert Freedman is co-chair of the Energy and Infrastructure practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office.

He focuses on finance and development, asset acquisitions and dispositions, and complex work-outs and restructurings of infrastructure assets across infrastructure sectors — including power, renewables and sustainable development — and transportation. In finance matters, Rob regularly represents parties in the many different types of markets utilized in the current E&I sector, including construction and back-leverage financings, Term Loan A, Term Loan B, acquisition financings, mezzanine financings and private placement financings.

Rob’s clients include banks and financial institutions, major corporations, private equity and other institutional investors.

EDUCATION

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1996

REPRESENTATIONS

  • BNP Paribas as administrative agent, lender and revolving facility issuing bank, and ING Capital, SMBC, Crédit Agricole, CIT Bank and Associated Bank as lenders on the financing of a portfolio of 25 solar projects with a total installed capacity of approximately 365 MWac, acquired by LS Power from Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) and located across the United States.

  • CIT Bank, Crédit Agricole and SMBC as coordinating lead arrangers, joint bookrunners, co-syndication agents, lenders and LC issuers; Société Generale as joint lead arranger and lender; and First Bank of Florida as lender on a term loan, revolver and letter of credit facilities to CGP Holding Finance II in connection with refinancing of the three interlinked geothermal power plants with a nameplate turbine capacity totaling approximately 300 MW.

RECOGNITIONS

  • Band 1 – Nationwide: Projects

    Chambers USA

  • Nationwide: Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy

    Chambers USA

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