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Of Counsel, Energy & Infrastructure
Claire Melvin is of counsel in the Energy & Infrastructure practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. She focuses on finance and development of infrastructure assets primarily in the power, renewables and sustainable development sectors in the U.S. and Latin America. She regularly represents lenders, sponsors and other financial institutions in a broad range of infrastructure, energy and other financings.
Washington University School of Law, J.D., 2015
University of Illinois, B.A., 2010
Lead arrangers, BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole CIB, on a holdco term loan facility and revolving facility for an approximately 170 MW portfolio of geothermal and solar projects located in California, Nevada and Utah owned by Cyrq Energy.
Lead arrangers in a financing for the Los Alamitos microgrid project with a power purchase agreement with a California utility. Project included a microgrid, comprised of approximately 31MWdc of photovoltaic solar, a 20MW/40MWh (two-hour duration) battery energy storage system and 3.125 MW reciprocating engine gensets.
"Financing Large-Scale Projects," Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, Environmental Law Institute, Co-Author
JANUARY 1, 2019