Aaron Hullman

• Represented Axium Infrastructure, a Canadian and U.S. private equity fund, in the acquisition of a 49% interest in a 1.3 GW portfolio of wind and solar projects managed by Constellation Energy (formerly the power generation division of Exelon Corporation).
• Represented Axium Infrastructure in the acquisition from Terra-Gen of an 80% interest in Edwards-Sanborn 1A, a 1,505 MWh battery storage and 346 MW solar photovoltaic power project in California.
• Represented D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments in the tax equity financing of the Block Island Wind Project, the first off-shore wind power generation project in North America.
• Represented Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of a 49% stake in Chile Renovables, an affiliate of Latin American power company AES, for US$441 million to develop 734 MW of solar, wind and battery storage assets in Chile.
• Represented Global Infrastructure Partners in the sale of Competitive Ventures, a leading U.S. power development and asset management company, to OPC Energy, Israel’s largest private energy company.
• Represented Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of Saavi Energía, Mexico’s largest independent power generation company which owns over 2.2 GW of power generation capacity, from Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure.
• Represented ORIX USA, a division of ORIX Corporation, in a partnership with IGS Solar (IGS), a leading turnkey commercial and residential solar provider, to develop, acquire and operate a portfolio of commercial and industrial distributed solar energy generation projects across the United States.
• Represented Avangrid in the sale of Enstor Energy Services, its gas trading business, to Castleton Commodities International (CCI).
• Represented O-I, Inc. (Owens Illinois) in the acquisition of Nueva Fàbrica Nacional de Vidrio, a large bottle manufacturing facility in Mexico, from Grupo Modelo for approximately US$188 million.
• Represented Denham Capital Partners in the establishment of Nexif Energy, a Singapore based independent power development company, to develop wind, hydroelectric and natural gas power generation assets in Southeast Asia and Australia.
• Represented Denham Capital Partners in the establishment of Rio Energy, a wind power development portfolio company in Brazil with 1.1 GW of projects in commercial operation or construction.
• Represented Denham Capital Partners in the establishment of Santiago Metals, a copper mining portfolio company in Chile.
• Represented D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments in the acquisitions and tax equity financings of solar and wind projects in North Carolina, Minnesota, New Mexico, California, Connecticut and Virginia.
• Represented Tenaska in its tax equity financing of the 168 MW Coniglio solar facility in Texas.
• Represented Tenaska in its tax equity financing of the 67 MW Lotus solar facility in California.
• Represented Tenaska in establishment of a 50-50 joint venture with ALLETE to construct a 250 MW wind power generation facility in Minnesota.
• Represented Irradiant Partners (formerly Kayne Anderson Capital’s renewable energy fund) in the acquisition of four utility-scale solar power development projects in North Carolina having an aggregate capacity of 370 MW.
• Represented Total SE in the establishment of a 50-50 joint venture with Clean Energy Corp. to fund up to $400 million to develop carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities in the U.S.
• Represented Trilantic Capital and Climate Adaptive Infrastructure in the US$130 million preferred equity financing in Intersect Power to fund the development and construction of six utility-scale solar projects located in California and Texas having an aggregate capacity of 2.2 GW and an additional 1.4 GW of battery storage.
• Represented Irradiant Partners (formerly Kayne Anderson Capital’s renewable energy fund) in the acquisition and subsequent tax equity financing of the 112 MW Harts Mill solar facility in North Carolina.
• Represented ConnectGen in a 50-50 joint venture with EDP Renewables to acquire, construct and tax equity finance three utility-scale solar power projects located in Arizona, Nevada and California having an aggregate capacity of 277 MW.
• Represented Cordelio Power, an independent power producer and wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), in the acquisition of the 185 MW Glacier Sands wind power generation project in Illinois.
• Represented The Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman in the sale of X-Chem, Inc., a leading provider of DNA-Encoded Library (DEL)-based drug discovery services, to GHO Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm.

Aaron represents private equity sponsors and investors in mergers and acquisitions, preferred equity investments and complex joint ventures, both domestically and internationally.  He has extensive experience advising on transactions involving power generation, energy and digital infrastructure, and technology platforms. 

He has represented numerous sponsors and tax equity investors in development and financing of U.S. power generation and infrastructure assets, including natural gas and renewable power generation facilities, data center developments and co-located power generation facilities. Aaron's representative clients in the energy, power and infrastructure sectors include, among others, Argo Infrastructure, Axium Infrastructure, Capital Dynamics, Denham Capital, DESRI, Global Infrastructure Partners, Lotus Infrastructure, Macquarie Asset Management, Ridgewood Infrastructure, and Tenaska.  

Recent transactions include representation of:

• Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in its $2.2 billion investment in DESRI, a leading U.S. renewable energy independent power producer; 
• Gigafund in the restructuring of its general partner and management company structure;
• A major U.S. private equity fund in a bid to acquire and take private a SEC '34 Act reporting company;
• Safanad Dubai Limited in the establishment of a multi-tier joint venture to invest more than $1 billion in co-located data centers and other digital infrastructure assets in the U.S.; 
• IFM in a carve-out transaction to acquire Air Liquide's renewable natural gas production and distribution business in the U.S., France, Norway and Sweden; 
• Global Development Partners S.a r.l in the restructuring of a multinational small modular nuclear reactor development company; and
• Forge Global in a European joint venture with Deutsche Borse to expand its secondary share trading platform to Europe.

Aaron received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. In addition, he holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan.