Michael T. Reese
Partner

• Representing multiple applicants for loan guarantees from the Department of Energy for domestic energy projects that encourage early commercial use of new or significantly improved technologies (including nuclear power and coal-based power generation and industrial gasification facilities).
• Representing the sponsor/project company in the development and financing of a proposed domestic nuclear power plant.
• Representing a foreign company in its investment in a proposed domestic power plant that will use the foreign company's nuclear technology.
• Representing the initial purchaser and letter of credit provider in the development of domestic natural gas-fired electric generating plant using new turbine technology.
• Representing the project company in the acquisition financing and permanent financing of toll infrastructure assets.
• Representing the agent/lender in the acquisition financing of toll infrastructure assets.
• Representing the placement agent in the $196 million offering of securities guaranteed by an export credit agency for a water desalination plant in Algeria.
• Representing a natural gas trader in its $1 billion receivables bank financing.
• Representing a supplier of oil and natural gas in its $725 million senior secured financing.
• Representing the project company in its high-yield $361 million offering to refinance construction financing of an electric generation power plant in Alabama.
• Representing the project company in a restructuring of collateral arrangements to secure natural gas price swaps for a natural gas-fired electric generation facility in Texas.
• Representing the project company in its $715 million holdco-opco offering for an electric generation power plant in Oklahoma. Named the North American Project Bond Deal of the Year in 2004 by Euromoney’s Project Finance and the Bond Deal of the Year, Americas in 2004 by Thomson's Project Finance International.
• Representing the project company in its $483 million offering to refinance the construction financing of an electric generation power plant in Virginia.
• Representing the project company in its $410 million offering to refinance the construction financing of an electric generation power plant in Alabama. Named the North American Single Asset Deal of the Year in 2003 by Euromoney’s Project Finance and the North American Bond Deal of the Year in 2003 by Thomson's Project Finance International.
• Representing a public utility holding company in its issuance of $966 million of common stock.
• Representing the borrower in $497 million construction financing of an electric generation power plant in Virginia. Named the North American Single Asset Deal of the Year in 2002 by Euromoney’s Project Finance.

• Chambers USA, Projects—National (2013)

American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York