Brandon Dalling

• A major private equity sponsor in connection with the approximately $1.25 BN refinancing of Cogentrix and the approximately 5.3 gigawatts of thermal power generation in PJM, ISO-NE and ERCOT operated by Cogentrix. (2025)
• A major private equity and infrastructure investor in connection with the private credit refinancing of Pelican Power, the owner of approximately 4.3 gigawatts of natural gas, fuel oil and coal-fired thermal power generation in Louisiana (MISO) PJM and Texas (ERCOT and MISO). (2025)
• An initial coordinating lead arranger in connection with the $15.1 billion debt and equity project financing of Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, the largest project financing of a large capex infrastructure project in the United States to date (2025)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the holdco financing of Edgewater Generation, the owner of approximately 2.7 gigawatts of thermal power generation in PJM and ISO-NE. (2025)
• JERA Americas in connection with the term loan B refinancing of Compass Power, the owner of approximately 1.3 gigawatts of gas fired thermal power generation in PJM and ISO-NE consisting of the Marcus Hook, Milford and Dighton projects. (2025)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with structured commodity hedging and senior debt matters for its $1.9 billion sale of a Mid-Atlantic and North-East natural gas generation portfolio to Vistra. (2025)
• Rev Renewables in connection with the construction financing, tax credit bridge financing and tax credit purchase for its Tumbleweed project, a 125 MW/500 (up to 1,000) MWh battery energy storage facility in Kern County, California. (2025)
• A major private equity sponsor in connection with the acquisition financing of Cogentrix and the approximately 5.3 gigawatts of thermal power generation in PJM, ISO-NE and ERCOT operated by Cogentrix. (2025)
• A major private equity sponsor in connection with the refinancing of NextWave’s Traveler project, a 32,000 b/d nameplate ethylene-to-alkylate production facility in Pasadena, Texas. (2025)
• A leading developer in connection with the term loan B refinancing of CPV Shore, a 725 megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating facility in PJM. (2025)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the term loan B refinancing of Edgewater Generation, the owner of approximately 2.7 gigawatts of thermal power generation in PJM and ISO-NE. (2025)
• The lenders in connection with the construction financing of Pacific Steel Group’s Mojave Micro Mill project, a electric arc furnace micro mill in Kern County, California and first steel mill to be built in California in the last five decades. (2025)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the Michigan municipal bond construction financing of a portfolio of renewable natural gas projects consisting primarily of anaerobic digestors of animal waste and associated upgraders and gas processing infrastructure. (2025)
• Macquarie Asset Management in connection with the acquisition financing of its significant minority equity stake in D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a large renewable energy company, for up to approximately $1.725 billion. (2025)
• Relevate Power in connection with the acquisition and private credit acquisition financing of Gravity Renewables, an owner and operator of an approximately 40 megawatt portfolio of 15 hydroelectric run-of-the-river projects and one solar project located in New York and New England, which are expected to be operated under renewable programs substantially similar to community solar. (2024)
• A leading developer in connection with the investment tax credit financing and sale for the Anemoi project, a 200MW/400 MWh battery energy storage facility in Hidalgo County, Texas. (2024)
• A joint venture between the U.S. subsidiary of a major Japanese power company and a Thailand-based independent power producer in connection with the term loan B refinancing of Compass Power, the owner of approximately 1.3 gigawatts of gas fired thermal power generation in PJM and ISO-NE consisting of the Marcus Hook, Milford and Dighton projects. (2024)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with structured commodity hedging and senior debt matters for the sale of Quail Run Energy Center, an approximately 550 megawatt combined-cycle, natural-gas-fired power plant located in Odessa, Texas. (2024)
• A major UAE world-leading aluminium producer in connection with the acquisition and financing of the 80% of the equity interest in Spectro Alloys LLC, a U.S. leading secondary foundry alloy producer based in Rosemount, Minnesota. (2024)
• Axium Infrastructure in connection with the sale and private placement acquisition financing of its joint venture ownership interest in Morongo Transmission, the owner of an interest in the West of Devers Transmission Upgrade Project, a 48 mile, 220 kV double circuit transmission line that increased the transmission capacity of the existing West of Devers corridor from 1.6 gigawatts to approximately 4.8 gigawatts that connects renewable energy resources in the Coachella Valley with Los Angeles. (2024)
• A major private equity and infrastructure investor in connection with the private credit acquisition financing of Pelican Power, the owner of approximately 3.7 gigawatts of gas, fuel oil and coal-fired thermal power generation in Louisiana (MISO) PJM and Texas (ERCOT and MISO). (2024)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the term loan B and commercial bank refinancing of Edgewater Generation, the owner of approximately 2.7 gigawatts of thermal power generation in PJM and ISO-NE. (2024)
• A major private equity sponsor in connection with the sale of White Energy, the owner of two state-of-the-art ethanol plants that are developing a joint carbon capture project. (2024)
• Carlyle Power, through its portfolio company Cogentrix Power, in connection with the sale to Oglethorpe Power Corporation of the Walton County project, an approximately 465 megawatt natural gas-fired simple-cycle electric generation facility located in Walton County, Georgia. (2024)
• Brookfield Renewables in connection with a global framework agreement with Microsoft for the delivery of over 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity between 2026 and 2030 in the U.S. and Europe, which will be contracted pursuant to long-term virtual and physical power purchase agreements. (2024 & 2025)
• Carlyle Power, through its portfolio company Cogentrix Power, in connection with the sale to Georgia Gulf Southeast PowerGen of the Monroe project, an approximately 309 megawatt natural gas-fired simple-cycle electric generation facility located in Monroe, Georgia and its joint venture interests in the Sandersville project, an approximately 585 megawatt natural gas-fired simple-cycle electric generation facility located in Warthen, Georgia. (2024)
• A major power and infrastructure investor in connection with negotiation of numerous solar and wind physical and virtual power purchase agreements. (2024 & 2025)
• A joint venture between a leading developer and the U.S. subsidiary of a major Japanese power company in connection with the term loan B refinancing of CPV Fairview, a 1,050 megawatt dual fuel (ethane and natural gas)-fired combined-cycle generating facility in PJM. (2024)
• A leading developer in connection with the term loan A refinancing of CPV Towantic, an 805 megawatt gas-fired combined-cycle generating facility in ISO-NE. (2024)
• Tenaska Energy in connection with the acquisition of equity interests in the Fluvanna County project, an 885 megawatt dual fuel (fuel oil and natural gas) combined-cycle electric generating facility from J-POWER USA. (2024)
• Instar in connection with the term loan A refinancing of JET Infrastructure, the owner and operator of a portfolio of fuel pipelines and terminals supplying major hub airports and urban growth centers across the United States, including Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, San Diego, and Reno, as well as FedEx World Headquarters in Memphis. (2024)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with all senior debt and commodity hedging matters for the sale of its membership interests in the 1.3 gigawatt Compass Power Portfolio to Electrify Generating Public Company Limited, a Thailand-based independent power producer. (2024)
• Atlas Holdings in connection with an inventory financing for its Granite Shore portfolio, the owner of approximately 1.1 gigawatts of thermal power generation in ISO-NE. (2023)
• Axium Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition financing of an 80% interest in Edwards-Sanborn 1A, a 1,505 MWh battery storage and 346 MW solar photovoltaic power project in California acquired from Terra-Gen. (2023)
• A major private equity sponsor in connection with its bid to acquire from Brazos Electric Power Cooperative the Jack County project, a 1,237 megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle plant located in Jack County, Texas, the Johnson County project, a 266 megawatt natural gas or fuel oil-fired combined cycle plant located in Johnson County, Texas, and the R.W. Miller project, a 517 megawatt natural gas or fuel oil-fired power plant located in Palo Pinto County, Texas. (2023)
• EverWind in connection with a development loan for its multi-billion-dollar green hydrogen and green ammonia production, terminals and deepwater port facilities in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada. (2023)
• Atlas Holdings in connection with senior debt and commodity hedging matters for the sale to Hull Street of the Paris project, 240 MW gas fired power plant located in Paris, Texas, and the Bastrop project, a 538 megawatt gas fired power plant located in Bastrop, Texas. (2023)
• The Ad Hoc Group of Term Lenders and Noteholders of Talen Energy in connection with the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Talen Energy. (2023)
• Certain secured creditors and senior lenders in connection with the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Heritage Power. (2023)
• The sponsor in connection with the project financing of a brownfield refinery retrofit and sustainable aviation fuels production facility in Bakersfield, California. (2020 – 2023)
• An independent solar developer and sponsor in connection with the bridge financings of a pre-FID photovoltaic 375 MWdc and 1,200 MWh battery storage project in Southern California. (2023)
• The sponsor in connection with the acquisition and project financing of approximately 30 MW of run-of-the-river hydro-power projects in New York and New England. (2023)
• The sponsors in connection with the refinancing of the Middletown Energy Center, an approximately 485 MW combined-cycle generating facility in Middletown, Ohio. (2022)
• The sponsors in connection with the refinancing of the Kings Mountain Energy Center, an approximately 485 MW combined-cycle generating facility in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. (2022)
• Axium Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition financing of a 49% interest in a 1.3 gigawatt portfolio of wind and solar projects acquired from Constellation Energy (formerly the power generation division of Exelon Corporation). (2022)
• ArcLight Capital Partners and Cutlass Energy Partners in connection with acquisition and private placement acquisition financing of the Saber Midstream project, a gas gathering system in the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana and Texas. (2022)
• Major strategic sponsors in connection with a 198 MW natural gas / ultra-low sulfur diesel dual-fired power electric facility (and reserve facility) in Guam. (2022)
• Lotus Infrastructure connection with $840 million term loan B and commercial bank refinancing of Compass Power, the owner of approximately 1.3 gigawatts of gas-fired thermal power generation in PJM and ISO-NE consisting of the Marcus Hook, Milford and Dighton projects. (2022)
• Atlas Holdings in connection with the senior debt and equity recapitalization of Mesquite Power, a portfolio of approximately 1.1 gigawatts of gas and coal-fired generation facilities located in ERCOT consisting of the Paris, Bastrop and Twin Oaks projects. (2022)
• Instar in connection with the merger and financing with Pilot Water of a water logistics business with a footprint of 129 saltwater disposal wells, 850 miles of pipelines, 2.5 million barrels of water per day of disposal capacity, and 34 source, recycling, and evaporation facilities across the Permian, Eagle Ford, Marcellus, Utica, Haynesville, and Rockies. (2022)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with debt and commodity hedging matters for the sale to Dairyland Power Cooperative of the RockGen project, a 503 megawatt natural gas-fired peaking power plant located near Cambridge, Wisconsin. (2021)
• Capital Dynamics and Arevon in connection with a tax equity and wind hedge restructuring and senior secured Winter Storm Uri rescue financing for over 450 megawatts of windfarms in Texas. (2021)
• The sponsor in connection with the project financing of a green precious and ferrous metals electronic-scrap-to-metals recovery and mining facility in Carlsbad, California. (2021)
• Carlyle Power, through its portfolio company Cogentrix Power, in connection with debt and commodity hedging matters for the sale to AES of six wind farms in New York totaling approximately 600 megawatts of capacity. (2021)
• JPMorgan in connection with a tax equity and wind hedge restructuring and back-leverage Winter Storm Uri rescue financing for over 460 megawatts of windfarms in Texas. (2021)
• A major infrastructure investor in connection with the purchase and back-leverage financings of multiple solar, battery-storage and wind portfolios in CAISO, SPP, MISO and ERCOT. (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023)
• A major private equity sponsor in connection with the project financing, holdco financing and incremental financing of a 32,000 b/d nameplate ethylene-to-alkylate production facility in Pasadena, Texas. (2020)
• A major private equity sponsor in connection with the project financing of a diluent recovery unit in Hardisty, Alberta and rail terminal and tankage facility in Port Arthur, Texas. (2020)
• A leading developer in connection with the term loan A and private placement construction financing and structured commodity hedging of the CPV Three Rivers Energy Center, a 1,258 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas electric generating facility. (2020)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition and project financing of the Gulf Coast Ammonia facility, a world-scale anhydrous ammonia plant (and first U.S. project financing of its kind) in Texas City, Texas, with a production capacity of approximately 1.3 million tons of ammonia per year. (2019)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition financing of its Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy acquisition from FirstEnergy of the assets constituting the West Lorain project, 545 megawatt periodic-start combustion-turbine generating facility located Lorain, Ohio. (2019)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition financing of the Garrison project, 309 megawatt combined-cycle dual-fuel electric generating facility located in Dover, Delaware, and the RockGen project, a 503 megawatt natural gas-fired peaking power plant located near Cambridge, Wisconsin. (2019)
• Lotus Infrastructure in connection with the acquisition financing of the Fairless project, a 1,320 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas electric generating facility located in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, and the Manchester project, a 510 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas electric generating facility located in Providence, Rhode Island. (2019)
• Carlyle Power, through its portfolio company Cogentrix Power, in connection with its acquisition, financing and long and medium-term structure commodity hedging of over 600 megawatts of wind farms in New York. (2019)
• Multiple private equity sponsors and developers in connection with deal-contingent interest rate hedging agreements to pre-lock and mitigate interest rate risk in anticipation of acquisition closings and financial close under project financings. (Ongoing)

Brandon Dalling is a partner in King & Spalding’s New York office and leads King & Spalding's Project Finance Practice. Brandon is active in King & Spalding’s project finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, private equity and energy and natural resources practices.

Brandon represents private equity sponsors, and strategics, private credit, financial institutions, developers and commodity hedge counterparties in leveraged finance, project finance, acquisition finance, other secured and unsecured lending transactions, mergers and acquisitions, physical and financial structured commodity hedging and supply transactions and energy management arrangements, with a focus on alternative energy (including solar, wind, hydro, renewable fuels and biofuels) and conventional power generation, LNG-to-power generation, oil & gas and other natural resources.