Kailash’s experience before joining Davis Polk includes representing:

Renewables

• Terra-Gen in two phases of $2 billion construction and tax equity financings of, and sale of equity interests in phase 1A of, the Edwards-Sanborn project, N. America’s largest stand-alone solar + BESS project (PFI’s 2022 Americas Renewables Deal of the Year)
• Lenders in $3 billion construction, term and tax equity financings of Vineyard Wind 1, the first commercial scale, 800 MW offshore wind farm in the United States (PFI’s 2021 Global ESG Deal of the Year)
• Lenders in $1 billion construction and term financing of SBE’s Orion solar project (PFI’s 2023 Renewables Deal of the Year)
• Note purchasers in $500 million private placement of a Goldman Sachs Renewable Power portfolio of several hundred renewable utility-scale and distributed generation assets (Project Bond Deal of the Year 2019 Power Finance & Risk)
• Carlyle and AlphaStruxure in financing of a portfolio of behind-the-meter, microgrid energy projects, including the energy park at JFK’s New Terminal One and at Montgomery County, Maryland’s bus depot.

Oil & Gas

• Venture Global in $5.8 billion Calcasieu Pass LNG construction financing of LNG liquefaction and export project in LA (PFI’s 2019 North America Deal of Year) and subsequent $3 billion bond issuances
• Global Infrastructure Partners in term loan financing of $3.13 billion acquisition of interests in EnLink Midstream
• Ares and Dynamic Renewables in the construction debt and tax equity financings of the BCO RNG project in Wisconsin

Traditional Power Generation

• Carlyle and Cogentrix in term refinancings of Rhode Island State Energy Center (Power Finance & Risk’s 2018 Shortlist of North America Conventional Power Project Finance)
• Avenue Capital and Middle River Power in continuation fund transaction and related ~$715 million financing of portfolio of CA thermal generation assets
• Orion Energy in connection with a senior secured loan to Martin Energy Group

Other Infrastructure

• JPM Infrastructure and BWC Terminals in ~$1 billion long term common terms platform financing
• Ares in acquisition and debt financing of Underline Infrastructure, an open access fiber network platform
• Redwood Materials in $2B conditional commitment under DOE’s ATVM program to finance a first of-its-kind battery materials recycling and manufacturing plant in NV