Andrew L. Stuyvenberg

Since joining Kirkland, Drew has been involved in the following transactions:

• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its approximately $1 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC.
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP) in its $250 million majority stake investment in Sevana Bioenergy, a developer of large-scale renewable natural gas projects.
• MAS Energy LLC and MAS CanAM LLC in the sale of MAS CanAm’s renewable natural gas development platform to CIM Group.
• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners on its participation in a consortium of investors that secured an almost 84,000 acre lease for $645 million in the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s New York Bight offshore wind auction. 
• Rice Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC to form Archaea Energy, a publicly-traded renewable natural gas platform.
• Mas CanAm LLC in its $355 million sale of three renewable natural gas landfill assets to Kinder Morgan Inc.
• Cypress Creek Renewables, a leading vertically integrated renewable energy platform, on its acquisition by EQT Infrastructure V fund from certain funds managed by HPS Investment Partners, LLC and Temasek.
• Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the signing of an agreement to jointly acquire a 31.6 per cent stake in Puget Holdings from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments).
• EQT Infrastructure’s acquisition of Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA), an owner and operator of Waste-to-Energy facilities in North America, in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion.
• Cypress Creek Renewables on a mezzanine debt financing backed by a 1.6 GW portfolio of operating solar projects, and on a senior financing of a portfolio of 14 operating solar projects.
• Ares' Infrastructure & Power strategy in its acquisition of a majority stake in Apex Clean Energy and certain related co-investment arrangements.
• KKR in its definitive agreements with NextEra Energy Resources and NextEra Energy Partners, LP to acquire a large portfolio of renewables assets.
• The Rise Fund, a global impact investing platform managed by TPG Global, in its acquisition of a majority stake in Element Markets, LLC , the leading independent marketer of renewable natural gas and environmental commodities in North America.
• GSO Capital Partners LP, predecessor to Blackstone Credit, in its preferred and common equity investment in Altus Power America, Inc., a solar generation company, as part of an $850 million recapitalization of Altus.
• TPG in its preferred equity investment of up to $140 million to fund capital contributions to Double E Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Summit Midstream Partners LP and Exxon Mobil Corporation, to construct a FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline in the Delaware Basin.
• Advised major wind and solar developer on revisions to form of virtual power purchase agreement.
• The lenders in the financing of Guernsey Power Project.
• EIG Global Energy Partners in its $750 million acquisition of equity interests in South Texas Midstream, LLC, a newly-formed joint venture with NextEra Energy Partners, LP.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Drew was involved in the following transactions:

• Coalition of transmission owners in MISO — proceedings before FERC regarding RTO-to-RTO disputes over use of transmission across seams and related cost allocation proceedings.
• Major financial institution — regulatory counsel for $1.5 billion private-placement of senior notes for major interstate natural gas pipeline company.
• Coalition of transmission owners in MISO — proceedings before FERC regarding rate disputes after an RTO expansion.
• Major investment company — regulatory counsel for $6.5 billion deal to acquire liquids pipeline company.
• Merchant generation owner — FERC market-based and reactive power rate filings, settlement proceedings, and ongoing compliance matters.
• Gas and electric utility companies — regulatory counsel to $6.2 billion merger of companies with wholesale and retail gas and electric assets.
• Major gas and oil company — advice on FERC regulations and policies applicable to proposed natural gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas transactions.
• Major private equity firm — regulatory counsel for $2.1 billion acquisition of 5,200 MW, natural gas- and coal-fueled generation portfolio in Ohio and Indiana.
• Merchant electric transmission developer — advice on regulatory matters associated with project development, siting, acquisition, and permitting.
• Major financial institution — regulatory counsel for $850 million notes offering for diversified energy company with oil and gas pipeline holdings, as well as retail gas and electric utility interests.
• Infrastructure investment company — regulatory counsel in deal for additional interest in utility-scale concentrating solar project.
• Major financial institution — regulatory counsel for approximately $800 million initial public offering of publicly traded partnership with onshore and offshore liquids and gas pipeline assets.