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WheatField Wind Farm Represented Fiera Axium Infrastructure in connection with an acquisition of a 49% private equity interest in wind farm located in Oregon State from EDP Renewables North America. Post Rock Wind Farm Represented a consortium of lenders in the financing of the Post Rock project, a 201 MW wind farm in Kansas. Post Rock Wind Farm Represented a consortium of lenders in the financing of the Post Rock project, a 201 MW wind farm in Kansas. Bishop Hill I Wind Farm Represented a consortium of lenders in the financing of the Bishop Hill I project, a 211 MW wind farm in Illinois. City of Hayward Natural Gas Power Generation Facility Represented Russell City Energy Company, LLC in the $845 million project financing of an approximately 620 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation facility in the City of Hayward, California Sale of InterGen N.V. 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