Mario R. Samos

Mario’s experience at Sidley includes the following representative matters:

Renewable Energy

• NRG Energy in its agreement to supply the City of Houston with 100% renewable electricity.
• A renewables-focused private equity firm in its sale of a portfolio of early-stage solar power projects.
• A clean energy-focused private equity firm in its formation of a joint venture for the development of a wind power project.
• A solar power project developer in negotiating a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the sale of energy and renewable energy credits (RECs) to a local governmental entity from a solar power project in Texas.
• A commodities trading business in its purchase of energy, capacity and RECs from a solar power project.
• Citigroup Energy Inc. in a secured energy hedge for Rio Bravo, a 238 MW wind project in Starr County, Texas sponsored by Sammons Renewable Energy and Franklin Park.
• Citigroup Energy Inc. in a secured energy hedge for Midway Wind, a 163 MW wind project in San Patricio County, Texas sponsored by Sammons Renewable Energy and Franklin Park.
• Citigroup Energy Inc. in its establishment of an energy hedging program to support the repowering of multiple wind power projects in Texas.
• Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. in a secured energy hedge for Live Oak, a 200 MW wind project in Schleicher County, Texas sponsored by ENGIE North America.
• Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. in a secured energy hedge for Tahoka Wind, a 300 MW wind project in Lynn County, Texas sponsored by Lincoln Clean Energy.

Conventional Power

• Argo Infrastructure Partners in its agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interests of the holding companies owning the Oneta Power Generation Project, a 1,127 MW power plant in Coweta, Oklahoma, and the Carville Power Generation Project, a 516 MW power plant in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, from a portfolio company of LS Power Equity Partners.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its simultaneous acquisition of two power generation facilities in the northeastern United States from GenOn Energy and NRG Energy, which was recognized as the 2018 Conventional Power M&A Deal of the Year by Power Finance & Risk.
• Rockland Capital in the refinancing of the Eagle Point Power Generation facility, a 265 MW combined cycle natural gas-fired facility located in New Jersey.
• Rockland Capital in the financing of the Lee County Generating Station facility, a 640 MW simple cycle, natural gas-fired facility located in Illinois.
• Rockland Capital in financing its acquisition of six simple cycle natural gas-fired facilities.

Oil & Gas

• A petroleum refining company in the negotiation and structuring of a secured inventory monetization and intermediation facility.
• A private equity firm in negotiating a cross-border fuel hedging pass-through arrangement as part of its acquisition of a transportation services company.
• A public natural gas compression company in amending, increasing and extending its existing revolving credit facility.
• A public midstream oil and gas company in its public debt offering of senior notes and junior subordinated notes.
• The administrative agent in a reserve-based credit facility for an upstream oil and gas company.
• An oilfield services company in its divestiture of its pumping services and rentals business.
• A minerals-focused private equity firm in its purchase of oil and gas assets, including mineral rights and royalty interests.
• An oil and gas pipeline company in the sale of its midstream assets as part of a corporate restructuring.

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