
David AvilaDavidAvila
Partner, Energy & Infrastructure
David Avila is a partner in the Energy & Infrastructure practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He focuses on project development and finance, including construction, tax credit bridge and back leverage financings, Term Loan A, Term Loan B, asset acquisitions and dispositions, private placement offerings, tax credit transfer transactions and other corporate transactions in the power and renewable energy, battery storage and natural gas sectors. David’s clients include both sponsors and lenders, including developers, private equity, investment banks and other institutional investors.
American University Washington College of Law, J.D., 2008
Duke University, B.A., 2002
New York Bar
The lead arrangers in the $4.95 billion construction-to-term, tax equity and tax credit transfer bridge financing for the Darden Project, comprised of 1.15 GW solar energy generation facilities and 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery energy storage facilities located in Fresno County, CA owned by IPX Power.
The coordinated lead arrangers in the $1.5 billion construction financing of the Swan Energy Center, a 650MW solar facility on portions of formerly strip-mined land in northwestern Bates County, Missouri, owned by Clearway Energy Group.
- Nationwide: Projects
Chambers USA
- Rising Star – Project Finance and Project Development
IFLR USA