Daniel Lin

Select M&A and General Corporate Representations*

• A Japanese electric utility on its investment (with other consortium members) on electricity transmission assets for two offshore windfarms in the UK.
• Japanese investors on acquiring a technical consulting company servicing the renewable energy sector.
• An Asian consortium’s bid to acquire a U.S. oil major’s geothermal assets in Indonesia and the Philippines as part of an auction process.
• A Chinese EPC on its equity investment in a greenfield geothermal project in Kenya.
• A Japanese consortium’s bid to acquire two offshore wind farms in the UK.
• Japanese utilities and trading companies on over 15 investments in greenfield and brownfield conventional and renewable power projects across North America, South America and Asia.
• A U.S. private equity fund on its acquisition of an interest in a production sharing contract in an Indonesian oil and gas field from a Chinese energy company.
• A listed Japanese corporate’s investments in (i) an energy efficiency consulting company in the U.S., (ii), a financial conglomerate based in Asia, and (iii) an aquaculture business with operations in the U.S., Latin America and Asia.
• A Chinese sovereign wealth fund’s investment in 15 logistical properties in Japan.
• Asian investors on their investments in a confectionary company and two hotel resort developments in northern and southern Japan.

Select Financing Representations*

• Lender consortium, including a Japanese ECA on a US$1 billion financing of the world’s largest commercial post-combustion carbon-capture facility in Texas, sponsored by a U.S. utility and a listed Japanese energy company.
• Asian ECAs and commercial lenders on project financing for over 10GW of independent power projects in Indonesia sponsored by Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and other sponsors.
• The project company and their US an Chinese sponsors on financing a greenfield power project in the Philippines with Chinese ECA financing and Chinese EPC.
• Commercial lenders on the financing of an undersea cable project connecting South-east Asian countries and the West Coast of the United States.
• Japanese lenders on financing a $1 billion methanol plant in Trinidad and Tobago sponsored by Japanese and local sponsors.
• A Japanese ECA on (i) the mezzanine financing of a Japanese sponsor’s equity investment in a mining project in Madagascar, and (ii) restructuring of the same project.
• A Singapore lender on a US$140 million holdco refinancing for an Indonesian agricultural-business group.
• A French lender on two yen-denominated syndicated corporate loans to an aviation leasing company based in the U.S.
• An international investment bank on acquiring two distressed debt portfolios owed by subsidiaries sponsored by a U.S. private equity fund.
• A Japanese lender consortium on a US$980 million holdco-level financing of a Japanese trading company’s investment in a deepwater drillship which is leased to a Brazilian counterparty via various back-to-back novation arrangements.

*Includes matters handled by Daniel prior to joining Sidley.