Jeffrey J. Delaney

Energy

• Representing Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. in connection with its capital raising activities, including debt private placements.
• Representing an electric utility and its subsidiaries in connection with its capital raising activities, including debt private placements.
• Representing the investors in connection with two structured secured debt private placements for Bloom Energy Corporation.
• Representing the investors in connection with multiple debt private placements for SJW Group and its subsidiary, San Jose Water Company.
• Representing the underwriter in connection with the tax-exempt refinancing of a cogeneration electric facility in Florida.
• Representing the underwriters in connection with the proposed initial public offering of an alternative energy company focused on the development of integrated gasification technology.
• Representing the underwriters in two public follow-on equity offerings for Fuel Cell Energy Inc., a developer and manufacturer of fuel cell power plants.
• Representing a leading energy company in connection with a Rule 144A debt exchange offer and other Rule 144A debt offerings.
• Representing the initial purchasers in connection with the debut debt issuance of a regional water company by way of a Rule 144A debt offering.
• Representing the initial purchasers in contemporaneous Rule 144A offerings for senior debt and capital securities of a diversified regional merchant energy company.
• Representing an industrial minerals and aggregates company in a Rule 144A offering of high-yield debt securities and subsequent exchange offer.
• Representing the underwriters in registered and Rule 144A offerings of debt securities and tax-advantaged preferred securities by domestic and foreign affiliates of energy companies, including electric distribution companies in the United Kingdom and Australia.
• Representing an independent transmission company and its holding company in connection with a private placement of secured debt.

Financial Services and Life Insurance

• Representing a domestic bank in connection with a variety of financing activities, including its bank note program.
• Representing the initial purchasers in connection with Rule 144A surplus notes issuances for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
• Representing the underwriters in connection with equity and debt offerings for Principal Financial Group Inc.
• Representing the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A senior notes financing for Sammons Financial Group Inc.

Other

• Representing the underwriters in connection with multiple public equity offerings by Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Representing a leading aluminum company in connection with a contemporaneous debt tender offer and Rule 144A high-yield debt financing.
• Representing the underwriters in the initial public offering of an integrated steel company and subsequent Rule 144A offerings of high-yield debt securities.
• Representing the underwriter in connection with the development and establishment of a retail, asset-backed corporate trust certificate program.
• Representing the underwriters in the initial public offering of an application-based software company.
• Representing the initial purchasers and the underwriters in connection with the capital raising activities of a major telecommunications company, including contemporaneous Rule 144A offerings for convertible debt and straight debt.
• Representing a U.S. airline in its initial public offering.
• Representing a sanitation and facility maintenance supply company in proxy solicitations of its public shareholders relating to corporate acquisitions and dispositions.
• Advising public companies in connection with compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Regulation FD, and related corporate governance requirements.

• Received Pace University | Elisabeth Haub School of Law’s 2018 Distinguished Service Award.

• Previously served as a member of the firm’s board for six years and previously led the firm’s lateral partner hiring program for 11 years.

• Honors & Awards
  • PLC Which Lawyer?, Energy—New York (2009 – 2012)