Leslie Jacomino

LESLIE JACOMINO advises strategic and financial clients on a broad range of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, joint ventures, and general corporate matters, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Leslie has extensive experience in transactions involving a wide range of energy and infrastructure assets, including renewable energy projects, thermal power generation facilities, transmission assets, transportation projects, and social infrastructure.

Leslie also brings valuable in-house experience from her time as counsel at Cargill, Inc., where she advised on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and venture capital investments.

• The note purchasers in connection with the financing by a subsidiary of Altera Infrastructure for the supply of a newbuild floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) to the Baleine Phase 3 development offshore Côte d’Ivoire, described by Altera as “the largest and most complex financing in the company’s history.”
• Altus Power, Inc. in its acquisition of a 234 MW portfolio of solar generation and storage assets comprising more than 100 sites across 18 states from Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation.
• A major independent power producer in its bid to acquire an approximately 800 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating facility in PJM, including comprehensive due diligence and negotiation of the definitive purchase agreement.
• The note purchasers in connection with the issuance of US$464M senior secured notes issued by a subsidiary of Altera Infrastructure for the refurbishment of a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) located offshore Côte d’Ivoire. 
• The note purchasers in connection with the financing of the Calistoga Resiliency Center project, a hybrid hydrogen and battery energy storage and hydrogen fuel cell electrical power generation facility located in Calistoga, California. 
• Barclays Capital Inc., as initial purchaser of US$110 million in tax-exempt bonds, and the purchasers of US$77 million in privately placed taxable bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority. The proceeds were loaned to a subsidiary of Global Ports Holding Plc to finance the repair, expansion, maintenance, and operation of cruise terminals in San Juan Bay pursuant to a 30-year concession.
• Capital Power Corporation in its acquisition of the 1,062 MW La Paloma natural gas-fired generation facility in California.
• Capital Power Corporation in its acquisition, together with a BlackRock affiliate, of the 1,092 MW Harquahala natural gas-fired generation facility in Maricopa County, Arizona.
• Patriot Rail its acquisition from BRX Transportation Holdings of Pioneer Lines, Inc., a railroad holding company operating 15 short line railroads across 12 states in the United States.
• HICL Infrastructure PLC, a listed infrastructure investment company advised by InfraRed Capital Partners Limited, in its acquisition of a 45.75% indirect interest in Texas Nevada Transmission, LLC (TNT) from John Hancock and Manulife Investment Management. TNT owns and operates approximately 500 miles of transmission lines in Texas and Nevada.
• A solar energy developer in connection with the sale of two pre-development battery energy storage system (BESS) projects (totaling 435 MW) located in the Boston metropolitan area.
• An international consortium in the pre-development acquisition and financing of a 350 MW solar project in Texas.
• A group of 11 international and local banks in providing a US$1.7 billion credit facility to Puerto Rico Toll Roads LLC, a subsidiary of Abertis Infraestructuras S.A., to finance a portion of the upfront payment for a 40-year concession to improve, operate, and maintain four toll roads in Puerto Rico.
• Cargill, Inc. in connection with the US$4.3B take-private of Nasdaq-listed Sanderson Farms and simultaneous formation of joint venture with Continental Grain and private acquisition of Wayne Farms.
• Cargill, Inc. in connection with Cargill Animal Nutrition’s divestiture of its formulation and mill management software platforms.
• Cargill, Inc. in connection with a joint venture between Cargill Bioindustrials and HELM for the production and distribution of bio-based butanediol.
• Axium Infrastructure in its acquisition and related acquisition financing of Wind Energy Transmission Texas, LLC (WETT) from PSP Investments and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. WETT owns and operates approximately 375 miles of transmission lines and six substations across 11 West Texas counties as part of the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone program.
• The lenders in connection with an approximately US$440 million credit facility to finance the design and implementation of a next-generation fare payment system for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s multimodal regional transit system, including account-based ticketing through mobile and contactless bankcard options.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley. 

• Fellow, Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity (LCLD), 2026