Jerônimo Soares de Sousa

Jerônimo focuses on the financing, development, and acquisition of renewable energy and other infrastructure projects. He counsels sponsors, developers, lenders, and investors on project and portfolio financing, M&A, tax equity and tax credit structures, and joint ventures across the energy transition space.

Jerônimo has experience with solar, wind, storage, hydroelectric, and related transmission assets, and regularly helps clients structure and negotiate secured and unsecured debt and equity investments in complex transactions in the U.S. and internationally.

• Represented a leading solar and storage developer in connection with three tax equity investments in a distributed generation portfolio of commercial-scale and community solar projects being developed by such developer throughout the U.S.
• Advised one of the leading IPP companies in the U.S. on seven tax equity investments in connection with four solar plus storage and two solar facilities as well as in three financing deals in connection with part of those projects.
• Advised one of the largest investor-owned electric public utility holding companies in the U.S. on the negotiation of the purchase agreement for a 224MW solar project being developed in Indiana.
• Represented an infrastructure and energy investor on its acquisition of a 50% interest in a holding company for various subsidiaries owning a 378MW portfolio of four hydro-powered electricity generating and storage facilities located in Tennessee and North Carolina as well as an 85-mile transmission line connecting the hydro-power assets to the Tennessee Valley Authority transmission system.
• Represented a global developer on the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of 28 solar projects in the U.S.
• Represented a wind energy developer and investor on its acquisition of a 199MW wind farm project located in Oklahoma.
• Advised a solar developer and investor on the negotiation of several tax equity commitments from certain banks.
• Counseled a renewable investor on the negotiation of an approximately $122 million financing of a hybrid solar project in South Carolina.
• Advised a joint venture on the agreements to simultaneously purchase the tax equity Class A interests in a holding company and cause such holding company to sell the Project Company that owns a wind farm in Western Oklahoma.
• Represented a sponsor and its affiliated companies on a series of complex and layered transactions for the development, construction and operation of a 400MW solar project located in Indiana.