Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR on its definitive agreements with NextEra Energy Resources (NYSE: NEE) and NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) to acquire a significant interest in an approximately 1,625 net megawatt portfolio of 12 distinct contracted utility-scale wind and solar assets in geographically diverse locations throughout the United States.
The Kirkland team was led by energy and infrastructure transactional partners Roald Nashi, John Pitts and David Thompson; transactional associates Patrick Moneypenny, Daniel Cadis, Andrew Allen and Dustin Davis; debt finance associates Osaro Aifuwa, Charles Martin, Tina Zheng and Adam Birnbaum; and included antitrust & competition partner Carla Hine; derivatives partner Drue Santora; employee benefits of counsel Jack Bernstein and partner Elizabeth Dyer; energy regulatory partners Brooksany Barrowes and Andrew Stuyvenberg; environmental transactions partner Alex Farmer and associate Ty’Meka Reeves-Sobers; government and internal investigations partner Nick Niles; international trade and national security partner Mario Mancuso and associates William Phalen and Jeremy Iloulian; real estate partner Roberto Miceli and associate Stephanie Scheer; and tax partners Michael Beinus, Sehj Vather, Scott Cockerham, and Vivek Ratnam.
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