Since joining Kirkland, Rafael has been involved in the following matters:
- Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure investment and operating firm, in its successful Chapter 11 purchase of two bitcoin mega-mining facilities: a 300 MW facility in Wolf Hollow, TX and a 100 MW facility in Kearny, Nebraska. The section 363 sale was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
- Trinity Gas Storage, a portfolio company of Transition Equity Partners, in a construction financing of a natural gas storage facility in Texas.
- Actis in its acquisition of a co-control stake in Catalyze, a distributed solar and battery storage infrastructure developer.
- TPG Rise Climate in its $300 million investment in Summit Carbon Solutions, a developer of a large-scale carbon capture and storage project, which will capture and permanently store up to 20 million tons per year of CO2 from facilities across the Midwestern United States.
- Orion Infrastructure Capital in its $125 million senior secured term loan facility to Alto Ingredients, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTO).
- Blackstone Energy Partners III L.P. and Blackstone Capital Partners VIII L.P., and their portfolio companies Transmission Developers, Inc., TDI-USA Holdings LLC and CHPE LLC, in connection with the development and financing of the approximately $4.5 billion Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line, an approximately 339-mile fully-buried transmission line that will deliver approximately 1,250 MW of clean and renewable hydropower from Québec to New York City.
- Archaea Energy Inc. (NYSE: LFG), an industry-leading renewable natural gas company, in its $4.1 billion sale to bp p.l.c. (NYSE: BP).
- Carval, Generate Capital and Climate Adaptive Infrastructure in a $2.6 billion financing raised by Intersect Power for a portfolio of six renewable projects.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Rafael was involved in the following matters:
- Raizen in connection with the approximately $700 million acquisition of Biosev.
- Mubadala Capital in connection with its $1.8 billion acquisition of the Refinaria Landulpho Alves (RLAM) refinery in Brazil from Petrobras.
- Brookfield Asset Management in connection with the approximately $5 billion acquisition of Nova Transportadora do Sudeste – NTS from Petrobras.
- Uber Technologies, Inc. in connection with its $450 million Series C investment in the grocery’s delivery start-up Cornershop.
- Mitsui Gás e Energia do Brasil in connection with the approximately $2 billion acquisition of Petrobras Gás S.A - Gaspetro from Petrobras.
- An Ad-Hoc Committee of Bondholders in connection with the approximately $6 billion restructuring of OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A.
- D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments in the acquisition, tax equity financing, and project financing of certain solar and wind projects.
- Starwood Energy Group in its leveraged buyout of a portfolio of natural-gas-fired electricity generation plants from Dynegy, Inc.
- Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura – CiFi in connection with certain project finance transactions.
- InstarAGF Asset Management in connection with the acquisition of AMPORTS from Lincolnshire Management.
