Gregory D. Howling

Since joining Kirkland, Gregory has been involved in the following matters:

• a joint venture led by Oak View Group, LLC, a global venue development, advisory and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries, in connection with the cross-border bank/bond construction financing for the development of Co-op Live, a 23,500 seat multipurpose entertainment arena to be built in Manchester, England.
• a joint venture led by Oak View Group, LLC, a global venue development, advisory and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries, in connection with the construction financing for the development of Acrisure Arena, an 11,000 seat world-class multipurpose arena located in Palm Springs, California and the future home of the Coachella Valley Firebirds.
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in two related transactions involving a 2,520 megawatt renewable energy portfolio operated by NextEra consisting of 13 US based utility-scale wind and solar assets, three of which include battery storage.
• The acquiring consortium and KKR, a leading global investment firm, in the financing of the consortium’s approximately $15 billion acquisition of all outstanding shares of common stock of CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ:CONE), a premier global data center REIT.
• Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and its portfolio company Cyrq Energy, LLC, a leader in geothermal energy technology and production with over 200 MW and six facilities, in connection with the refinancing of existing debt across Cyrq Energy’s portfolio.  

Prior to joining Kirkland, Gregory was involved in the following matters:

• KeyBank, National Association, ING Capital and Mizuho Bank in connection with a construction loan and letter of credit facility and a separate term loan facility to subsidiaries of Terra-Gen, LLC, for the development of a 460-MW energy storage system in California;
• Onyx Renewable Partners L.P., a Blackstone portfolio company, in connection with the sale of multiple portfolios of distributed generation and small-scale utility solar projects;
• JPMorgan Asset Management in its acquisition of Sonnedix Power Holdings, an international independent solar power producer;
• Exxon Mobil Corporation in connection with numerous domestic and international exploration and production opportunities, including:
  
  • its joint venture with Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) for their Gulf Coast Growth Ventures petrochemical project in Texas;
  • its $2.8 billion acquisition from Eni S.p.A. and structuring of a 25 percent indirect interest in the Area 4 block of the Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique; and
  • its acquisition of an interest in a 2.4-million-acre ultra-deep water block off the coast of Suriname.
• Allianz Global Investors US LLC, BlackRock and Metlife and various purchasers in 4(a)(2) private placements totaling approximately $2 billion of senior secured notes by a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy, Inc. to refinance a term loan facility for liquefied natural gas trains and a related pipeline at Cheniere's facilities near Corpus Christi, Texas;
• Bank of America as lead initial purchaser in a $1.5 billion Rule 144A offering by a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy, Inc.;
• Credit Suisse as lead initial purchaser in a $2 billion Rule 144A offering by Cheniere Energy, Inc.;
• Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and SG Americas Securities, LLC as coordinating lead arrangers of a group of 17 banks in connection with a $1.25 billion revolving credit facility for Cheniere Energy, Inc.;
• Syndicate of 18 international banks and other financial institutions in connection with Sasol Limited's $4 billion credit facility for the construction of a petrochemical plant in Louisiana;
• MUFG Union Bank, N.A., CoBank, ACB and Citibank, N.A. in connection with a $285 million construction loan, tax equity bridge loan and letter of credit facilities to a subsidiary of Terra-Gen, LLC for the repowering of four wind farms in California;
• MUFG Bank, Ltd. as lead arranger in connection with $733 million in construction loan and letter of credit facilities for the development and sale of the High Prairie Wind Farm, a 400 MW wind generation facility in Missouri;
• SG Americas Securities, LLC and Santander Bank, N.A. in connection with a $256 million credit facility for a joint venture between Tenaska, Inc. and Mitsubishi Corporation to refinance existing bonds for the Lindsay Hill Generating Station, an 859 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle electrical generating facility in Alabama;
• Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and BNP Paribas Securities Corp. in a $401 million 4(a)(2) private placement of senior secured notes to refinance a construction and term loan facility for the Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center West project in California; and
• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Roya Bank of Canada, as joint lead arrangers, in connection with a $319 million 4(a)(2) private placement and a $163 million credit facility refinancing for a 130 MW photovoltaic solar electrical generating facility indirectly owned by Tenaska, Inc.