Harvestone Low Carbon Partners, LP (HLCP), a decarbonization platform, and a portfolio company of Energy Capital Partners (ECP), has announced that it closed a first-of-its kind carbon capture and sequestration tax equity financing with Bank of America. The transaction is associated with HLCP’s wholly owned subsidiary, Blue Flint Ethanol and associated Blue Flint companies (BFE), located near Underwood, North Dakota, which together, are generating, capturing, and sequestering biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2).

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Harvestone Low Carbon Partners in the transaction with a team led by San Diego partner Omar Nazif and Los Angeles counsel Stephen Yeh, with associates Matt de Bernardo and Nick Eberhart. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Houston partner Jim Cole, with associate Andrea Herman; on project development matters by San Diego counsel Seth Richardson, with associates Kyle Pascucci and Tanya Khiatani; on real estate matters by San Diego counsel Aaron Friberg, with associate Will Swanson; and on insurance matters by Los Angeles partner Drew Levin and San Diego/Los Angeles counsel Hannah Cary.