Amy Beller is Senior Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the Firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice. Amy has extensive experience representing parties on project financings, including renewable projects, and other finance transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector and regularly advises leading financial institutions, private equity sponsors and companies, including clients such as BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, MUFG Union Bank, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, KKR, Blackstone, Stonepeak, Alinda, First Reserve and Riverstone Capital Partners, and has worked as designated lenders’ counsel for developers such as Terra-Gen Power and Exelon Generation.
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Work Highlights
More recently, Amy has worked on:
- Lo Espejo Data Center, a special purpose vehicle of Odata, a supplier of scalable and adaptable IT infrastructure in Latin America, on its project financing for the development, construction and operation of an up to 40MW colocation data center in Chile
- Blackstone and QTS in their entry into a $1.28 billion construction term loan facility, the proceeds of which will be used to support the construction and development of a hyperscale build-to-suit data center
- JPMorgan in a construction and term loan facility, a tax equity bridge loan facility and related letter of credit facilities for the construction and operation of the 255MW/1,020MWh Scatter Wash battery energy storage system project being developed by Strata Clean Energy
- KKR in its agreement with Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. to establish CarbonCount Holdings 1 LLC to invest up to a combined $2 billion in climate positive projects across the United States
- BlackRock’s Global Renewable Power Fund IV in a $500 million convertible preferred equity investment commitment to Recurrent Energy B.V.
- Global Infrastructure Partners in multiple transactions, and the sale of 50% of GIP’s interest in Clearway Energy Group to TotalEnergies for cash and 50% of Total’s interest in SunPower and its acquisition of Eolian (formerly MAP® RE/ES)
- MUFG and BNP in connection with multiple project financing, private placements and holdco facilities to finance the construction and operation of several transmission projects being developed by LS Power throughout the US
- KKR in its acquisition of an indirect interest in the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas from Sempra Infrastructure
- Riverstone Credit Partners in its $100 million “Green Loan” financing for Circulus Holdings for the construction and operation of five low-density recycling facilities and its project financing for IM3NY’s construction of a Lithium-Ion Gigafactory
- Wells Fargo in connection with a portfolio holdco financing for Terra-Gen Power
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in the $1.3 billion investment in Venture Global LNG, Inc.'s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility and related financings
- MUFG and BNPin connection with multiple project financing, private placements and holdco facilities to finance the construction and operation of several transmission projects being developed by LS Power throughout the US
- BlackRock and its portfolio company, Western Renewables Partners, in back leverage financing arrangements for its $750 million convertible preferred equity investment in NEP Renewables, awarded IJGlobal’s 2018 “North American M&A Deal of the Year”
- A portfolio company of Blackrock in connection with two project financings for pipelines
- MUFG and CACIB in connection with the project financings of the Voyager I and Voyager II projects being developed by Terra-Gen Power
- Note Purchasers in connection with a $150 million issuance of project notes for a portfolio of solar and distributed generation projects of Exelon Generation Company and a $155 million issuance of project notes for Exelon Generation Company’s approximately 256 MW portfolio of seven wind and solar power plants located in Maryland, California, Michigan, Missouri and Oregon
- RBS, Barclays, Citigroup and the other initial purchasers in connection with an offering by Continental Wind, LLC of an aggregate of $613 million of senior notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S and related letter of credit facilities to finance a portfolio of thirteen wind projects with a total net capacity of approximately 667 megawatts, which was named North American Portfolio Power Deal of the Year 2013 (Euromoney)
- Barclays Capital in the $300 million portfolio holdco facility for Exgen Renewables I, LLC, a subsidiary of Exelon Generation Company
- 8point3 Operating Company, a subsidiary of a joint venture between First Solar and SunPower, on its YieldCo financing
Education
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Columbia Law School, 1995 J.D.
Stone Scholar; Columbia Law Review, Journal of Transnational Law, 1994–1995
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Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs, 1995 M.I.A.
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Dartmouth College, 1988 B.A.
magna cum laude
Amy Beller is Senior Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the Firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice. Amy has extensive experience representing parties on project financings, including renewable projects, and other finance transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector and regularly advises leading financial institutions, private equity sponsors and companies, including clients such as BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, MUFG Union Bank, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, KKR, Blackstone, Stonepeak, Alinda, First Reserve and Riverstone Capital Partners, and has worked as designated lenders’ counsel for developers such as Terra-Gen Power and Exelon Generation.
Amy is recognized in IFLR1000 as a Notable Practitioner in project finance.
More recently, Amy has worked on:
- Lo Espejo Data Center, a special purpose vehicle of Odata, a supplier of scalable and adaptable IT infrastructure in Latin America, on its project financing for the development, construction and operation of an up to 40MW colocation data center in Chile
- Blackstone and QTS in their entry into a $1.28 billion construction term loan facility, the proceeds of which will be used to support the construction and development of a hyperscale build-to-suit data center
- JPMorgan in a construction and term loan facility, a tax equity bridge loan facility and related letter of credit facilities for the construction and operation of the 255MW/1,020MWh Scatter Wash battery energy storage system project being developed by Strata Clean Energy
- KKR in its agreement with Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. to establish CarbonCount Holdings 1 LLC to invest up to a combined $2 billion in climate positive projects across the United States
- BlackRock’s Global Renewable Power Fund IV in a $500 million convertible preferred equity investment commitment to Recurrent Energy B.V.
- Global Infrastructure Partners in multiple transactions, and the sale of 50% of GIP’s interest in Clearway Energy Group to TotalEnergies for cash and 50% of Total’s interest in SunPower and its acquisition of Eolian (formerly MAP® RE/ES)
- MUFG and BNP in connection with multiple project financing, private placements and holdco facilities to finance the construction and operation of several transmission projects being developed by LS Power throughout the US
- KKR in its acquisition of an indirect interest in the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas from Sempra Infrastructure
- Riverstone Credit Partners in its $100 million “Green Loan” financing for Circulus Holdings for the construction and operation of five low-density recycling facilities and its project financing for IM3NY’s construction of a Lithium-Ion Gigafactory
- Wells Fargo in connection with a portfolio holdco financing for Terra-Gen Power
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in the $1.3 billion investment in Venture Global LNG, Inc.'s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility and related financings
- MUFG and BNPin connection with multiple project financing, private placements and holdco facilities to finance the construction and operation of several transmission projects being developed by LS Power throughout the US
- BlackRock and its portfolio company, Western Renewables Partners, in back leverage financing arrangements for its $750 million convertible preferred equity investment in NEP Renewables, awarded IJGlobal’s 2018 “North American M&A Deal of the Year”
- A portfolio company of Blackrock in connection with two project financings for pipelines
- MUFG and CACIB in connection with the project financings of the Voyager I and Voyager II projects being developed by Terra-Gen Power
- Note Purchasers in connection with a $150 million issuance of project notes for a portfolio of solar and distributed generation projects of Exelon Generation Company and a $155 million issuance of project notes for Exelon Generation Company’s approximately 256 MW portfolio of seven wind and solar power plants located in Maryland, California, Michigan, Missouri and Oregon
- RBS, Barclays, Citigroup and the other initial purchasers in connection with an offering by Continental Wind, LLC of an aggregate of $613 million of senior notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S and related letter of credit facilities to finance a portfolio of thirteen wind projects with a total net capacity of approximately 667 megawatts, which was named North American Portfolio Power Deal of the Year 2013 (Euromoney)
- Barclays Capital in the $300 million portfolio holdco facility for Exgen Renewables I, LLC, a subsidiary of Exelon Generation Company
- 8point3 Operating Company, a subsidiary of a joint venture between First Solar and SunPower, on its YieldCo financing
Amy also worked with the capital markets team representing the underwriters in the issuance of a total of $665 million in senior secured project notes by Stoneway Capital Corporation for the construction and operation of multiple simple-cycle power generation plants with a combined capacity of 686 megawatts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which was named 2017 Latin America Deal of the Year by Project Finance International, and the subsequent acquisition and restructuring of the business of Stoneway by MSU Energy Holding Ltd.
Amy joined Simpson Thacher in 1995 after receiving her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1995 (Stone Scholar) and was named Counsel in 2006 and Senior Counsel in 2008. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1988 and a M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in 1995. Amy is a member of New York State Bar Association.