Andrew Compton

Practice Areas

Andrew C. Compton focuses his practice on acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and complex financings in the energy and energy transition sectors. He regularly represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies, corporates and other participants, including direct lenders, across the energy value chain.

Work Highlights

Andrew has led, or has been a key advisor, on many major asset M&A and project finance transactions. These include:

- Elia Group: advising on its acquisition, through wholly owned subsidiary WindGrid USA LLC, of a 35.1% stake in energyRe Giga Projects, a subsidiary of energyRe LLC, the proceeds of which will be used to fund transmission and renewable energy generation projects across the United States.

- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan: advising on its joint acquisition, with Corio Generation, of an equity stake in Attentive Energy, which is developing offshore wind projects off the east coast of the United States.

- Sixth Street Partners, Tor Investment Management and Corbin Capital on a mezzanine financing for the US$1.3bn Trumbull natural gas-fired electric combined cycle power plant in Ohio.

- A consortium in connection with the ongoing development and financing of an offshore wind farm off the coast of New York and New Jersey.

- A consortium in connection with the initial development of an offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.

- Fluxys SA on its joint acquisition with EIG of GNL Quintero S.A., the largest liquified natural gas regasification terminal in Chile, from Enagas Chile SpA and OMERS Infrastructure.

- C2 Energy Capital: advising (a) on the development and financing of more than two dozen distributed generation solar portfolios across the U.S. and (b) the founders on the sale of the platform to EDP Renewables North America LLC.

- White Summit Capital and Riverstone Capital: advising on the acquisition of a portfolio of solar projects.

- Lenzing AG and Duratex: advising on the development and IFC/IDB/Finnvera-led US$1.1bn financing of a dissolving wood pulp plant and biofuels power plant in Brazil.

Andrew's other hallmark mandates include:

- Cape Wind offshore wind farm: advising Eksport Credit Fonden of Denmark and a consortium of commercial lenders on the proposed US$2.5bn development and financing of the Cape Wind offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S.

- Sarulla geothermal power project: advising the consortium of PT Medco Indonesia, Itochu Corporation, Ormat International and Kyushu Electric Power Company on the US$1.6bn development and financing of the Sarulla geothermal power project in Indonesia, the largest geothermal project financing globally to date.

- Central Java power project: advising Japan Bank for International Cooperation and a consortium of commercial lenders on the US$4.3bn development and financing of the Central Java power project in Indonesia.

Career

Cornell Law School (JD, 2007); University of Southern California (BS, magna cum laude, 2003)

Personal

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