Enrico Granata
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Enrico Granata Partner Corporate, Finance and Investments New York: +1 212 556 2346 [email protected] Enrico Granata is a New York partner in our Corporate, Finance and Investments practice specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. His practice focuses on representing private and public corporate clients, private equity sponsors, and hedge funds in negotiated and contested mergers, acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, proxy fights, takeover defense counseling, minority investments, joint ventures, restructurings, and other corporate transactions Enrico has advised on a broad range of private and public transactions, including SPAC mergers, frequently with a significant cross-border dimension. He has acted for buyers, sellers, and targets in mergers, tender offers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures (often in competitive auction contexts), joint ventures, spin-offs, and other restructuring transactions. Enrico also has extensive transactional experience involving renewable and clean energy assets, conventional power generation and transmission assets, and other power, energy and infrastructure assets. Enrico has significant M&A and PE experience in a variety of regulated and non-regulated industries, including power and energy, infrastructure, technology, life sciences, food & beverage, financial services, media, telecommunications, consumer products, and real estate/REIT. Matters Energy and Infrastructure Represented Capital Dynamics, a Swiss/NYC-based PE fund, in connection with its acquisition of a 300 MW portfolio of operating solar power plants located in California, Delaware and Arizona from LS Power. Represented Capital Dynamics, in connection with its acquisition of a 70% interest in a 127 MW operating solar power plant located in Arizona from Apollo Global Management. Representing The Carlyle Group and its affiliate Southeast PowerGen in connection with the sale of Effingham County Power, a 511 MW operating combined-cycle generating and transmission facility located in Rincon, GA, to Oglethorpe Power Corporation. Represented Brookfield Renewable Partners it its acquisition of the 845 MW Shepherds Flat Windfarm located near Arlington, Oregon from Caithness Energy. Shepherds Flat is the third largest windfarm in the United States, and the ninth largest in the world. 1 www.kslaw.com 1 Represented Brookfield Renewable Partners in the acquisition of the 252 MW Holtwood hydro plant and the 50 MW Lake Wallenpaupack hydro plant in Pennsylvania. Represented Starwood Energy Group, a leading private equity fund focused on energy infrastructure, in its $1.23 billion acquisition of 100% of the equity interests in the operating subsidiaries of two of Dominion Energy’s combined-cycle gas turbine plants. Representing Starwood Energy Group in its acquisition of the RockGen and Garrison combined cycle natural gas electric generation facilities from affiliates of Calpine Corporation, a portfolio company of Energy Capital Partners. Represented Starwood Energy Group in its (Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code) leveraged buyout of 100% of the assets constituting the West Lorain Power Plant located in Lorain, Ohio from FirstEnergy Generation, which are oil-fired power plants. Represented Graanul Invest, the largest wood pellets producer in Europe, in connection with its investment in Sweetwater Energy. Represented Graanul Invest in its (Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code) acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Texas Pellets. Represented JERA in its sale of a minority interest in Cricket Valley Energy Center to Development Bank of Japan. Represented Chubu Electric and then JERA in the acquisition of a 43% stake in Cricket Valley Energy Center, the developer of a 1,000 MW natural gas-fired power plant located in Dover, New York. Represented JERA in the joint acquisition with General Electric of a minority stake in Renovo Energy Center, the developer of a 950 MW natural gas-fired power plant in development in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Represented Axium Infrastructure in its acquisition of an equity interest in CPV Three Rivers Energy Center, a 1,258 MW power project to be constructed in northeastern Illinois, from affiliates of General Electric Company and Competitive Power Ventures. Represented Axium Infrastructure in its acquisition of a 50% ownership stake in the Dry Lake II wind farm and a 50% ownership stake in the Copper Crossing solar project from Avangrid Renewables. Represented Axium Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in the 97 MW Wheat Field wind project from EDP Renewables North America. Represented Tradewind Energy in its the divestiture of its 3 GW+ wind asset portfolio to Invenergy. Represented Tradewind Energy, Inc. in its sale of its 5 GW+ solar power and energy storage platforms to Macquarie Infrastructure/Capital. Represented D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments in the acquisition, tax equity financing, and project financings of a 46 MW solar power plant in Arizona, from Torch Clean Energy. Represented D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments, a private equity firm specializing in renewable energy projects and a member of the D.E. Shaw Group, in connection with its acquisition of LS - Cliffrose, a single-purpose entity that owns all of the assets comprising a 70 MW solar farm to be 2 www.kslaw.com 2 located south of Kingman, Arizona, from Longview Solar, a joint venture of TUUSSO Energy and Elemental Energy. Represented UBS Infrastructure, a business unit of UBS Asset Management, in connection with the acquisition of a 50% interest in a 161 MW wind energy project, located in Oldham County, Texas, from EDF Renewable Asset Holdings, an affiliate of EDF Renewable Energy. Represented UBS Infrastructure in connection with the proposed acquisition of an equity stake in a combined cycle natural gas power plant portfolio located in Connecticut. Represented InstarAGF Asset Management in its acquisition of Texas-based Oilfield Water Logistics, an energy services company, from Natural Gas Partners. Represented InstarAGF Asset Management and its wholly-owned portfolio company AMPORTS, Inc. in the acquisition of Horizon Terminal Services, a provider of port logistics services, from Höegh Autoliners B.V. Represented Mitsui in its acquisition of a 30% stake in 10 wind farms and 2 solar photovoltaic power plants in Canada from GDF SUEZ Canada. Represented Mitsui Gas e Energia do Brasil Ltda in its acquisition of a 49% stake in Petrobras Gás S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brazilian state-owned oil company Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras). Represented First Reserve, a global energy-focused private equity and infrastructure investment firm, in connection with the acquisition of Kingfisher Wind, a 298 MW wind energy project located in Northern Canadian County and Southern Kingfisher County in Oklahoma, and the related a $270 million tax equity financing. Represented Greentech Capital Advisors in its role as financial adviser to Atlantica Yield plc., a NASDAQ-listed yieldco or total return company that owns a diversified portfolio of contracted renewable energy, power generation, electric transmission and water assets, in connection with Atlantica Yield's strategic partnership with Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., a North American diversified generation, transmission and distribution utility. Represented Kruger Energy, a business unit of Kruger Inc., a Canadian pulp and paper company, in the acquisition of three solar photovoltaic projects under development in Imperial County, California, and the subsequent sale of Seville Solar, the developer of two of such projects, to an affiliate of Duke Energy. Represented Swiss Life, the largest insurance company in Switzerland, in its investment in a portfolio of 12 wind farms located throughout the United States owned by EDP Renewables totaling 1.6 GW of installed capacity. Represented Luminus Management in its (Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code) acquisition of the trucking logistics/assets and subsidiaries comprising the US-based business of Taylor Express, Inc., from the Celadon Group, Inc. Representing a private equity fund in its acquisition of recycled water gathering systems and wells in the Permian basin. Represented Israel Corporation in its acquisition of Globeleq Americas, a holding company for a portfolio of Latina American and Caribbean operating power businesses, comprising gas and hydro power plants in Peru and Bolivia, fuel based power assets in El Salvador, Dominican Republic, 3 www.kslaw.com 3 Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and Jamaica totaling a capacity of over 2,180 MW, from the CDC Group, the U.K. government-owned investor in developing countries. Represented a private equity fund in a bid to acquire certain rail operations and related assets from Dow at certain Dow-owned manufacturing sites in the U.S. and Canada. Represented Public Sector Pension Investment Board in the acquisition, through its wholly owned subsidiary Infra-PSP Canada, of a 49% equity interest of the holding company of I-69 Development Partners (I-69 DP). Represented GS Infrastructure Partners and Mediobanca in the acquisition of minority equity stakes in Sintonia, the infrastructure investment vehicle of the Benetton family. Represented Statoil in its merger with the oil and gas business of Norsk Hydro. Technology, Media and Communications Represented Lightning eMotors in the pending $800 million SPAC merger with Gig Capital 3. Represented of Total System Services in its $54 billion merger of equals with Global