Mr. John concentrates his practice in the development and finance of domestic and international energy projects, with a particular emphasis on wind, solar and natural gas-fired power projects. He represents developers, off-takers and lenders in a variety of project development transactions, including debt and equity financing.
Mr. John has represented developers in and through virtually all stages of the development process, including assisting developers through land acquisition, interconnection, transmission and purchase arrangements, construction, operations and maintenance and financing. He has represented off-takers in negotiating power purchase and asset acquisition agreements. He has represented lenders and equity investors in structuring and closing transactions related to large infrastructure projects.
Specifically, Mr. John has:
 Represented developers in development of multiple wind farms in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming, representing almost 1.8 GW of nameplate capacity.
Represented a developer in negotiating a power purchase agreement with a large retailer, between two fully basis-swapped ERCOT hubs.
Represented a developer in the sale of its 300 MW wind farm and related transmission assets in Colorado.
Represented developers in their Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada portfolio power purchase agreements for distributed generation solar projects.
Represented a developer in its financing lease arrangements for a 10.1 Bcf natural gas storage field in Mississippi.
Represented a consortium of municipal utilities in its acquisition of 53 MW of energy storage capacity, the first such deal of its kind at the utility-scale.
Represented a consortium of municipal utilities in their acquisition of various renewable energy power projects (wind, solar and small hydropower), through asset acquisitions and long-term power purchase agreements.
Represented a consortium of municipal utilities in its synthetic transmission arrangements, including firming and shaping transactions.
Represented a project company in the development and financing of its 485 MW natural gas-fired power project in Araucaria, Brazil.
Represented a project company in the development of its 134 MW oil-fired power project in Pakistan.
Represented an integrated energy company in its seller-financed sale of multiple refineries located in the southeast U.S.
Represented an integrated energy company in a $3.8 billion Rule 144(a) offering, secured by its oil and gas producing properties in multiple U.S. states and the Gulf of Mexico.
Represented a mezzanine lender (and the largest creditor) in the Chapter 11 restructuring of its lending facilities, secured by oil and gas producing properties in multiple U.S. states and the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr. John was previously associated with an international law firm in Houston, Texas. While at that law firm, he was seconded for two years to the Infrastructure Group of the Office of the General Counsel of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, in Washington, D.C.
Mr. John represented IFC as "lenders' counsel" in structured, project and portfolio financings, and equity investments in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, China, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Turkey, in such diverse fields as aircraft, energy (electricity and natural gas), microfinance, ports, rail, shipping and toll roads, with loans denominated in U.S. Dollars, Euros, Indian Rupees and Philippine Pesos. During his secondment, Mr. John represented IFC in the following transactions, among others:
The U.S. Dollar project financing and equity investment of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power project in Tajikistan.
The Indian Rupee portfolio and project financing of small- and mini- hydroelectric power projects in India.
The Euro portfolio financing of the first privatized electricity distribution companies in Romania.
The Euro equity financing of the first privatized gas distribution companies in Romania.
The Philippine Peso financing of an electricity distribution company in the Philippines.
The Indian Rupee project financing of the first privately-owned reverse-osmosis desalination plant in India.
The purchase and sale of up to 2 million certified emissions reductions (CERs) credits under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, to be generated by run-of-the-river hydroelectric power projects and a wood burning co-generation power project in Brazil.
The monetization and securing of the revenues of CERs generated from a portfolio of small- and mini- hydroelectric power projects in India.
Mr. John is admitted to practice in Texas.
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