NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper Locke advised private equity client Hull Street Energy, LLC, on its agreement to acquire FirstLight from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. For more information, see the press release.

The transaction includes nearly 1,400 megawatts (MW) of clean, reliable generation in the Northeast, including Northfield Mountain, a 1,168‑MW pumped‑storage hydroelectric facility in Massachusetts that is the largest energy storage facility in New England. It also includes 14 hydroelectric stations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, and three operating solar and battery facilities in the Northeast.

The team that represented Hull Street Energy included Andrew Schifrin, Wallace Bao, Steven Khadavi, Charles Sensiba, Nickolas Guttman, Russell Kooistra, Emma Teman, Morgan Gerard, Sahara Shrestha, Kyle Kohler, Jerônimo Soares de Sousa, Andrew Nelson, Joshua Bibiloni, Andrés Chaves, Aaron Hudson, Paul Porretta, Maria Brinkman, Dixon Wallace, Christopher Stock, Hannah Rudder, and Jessica Rothenberg.

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