Javad Asghari

Based in New York and Los Angeles, Javad’s practice focuses on major energy and infrastructure projects in the Americas and around the globe.

His practice has a particular focus on (i) mergers and acquisitions of E&I projects and (ii) project development, including advising on joint venture, governance and commercial (including concession, EPC and offtake) agreements with respect to the development of renewable and conventional power generation; transmission and distribution projects; renewable hydrocarbon projects and LNG projects; and data centers.

In recent years, Javad has represented a variety of generators in the development and construction of power generation projects (including thermal generation, renewable generation, and nuclear generation) to serve data center load, including ‘behind-the-meter’ projects.

His clients include developers and private equity funds involved in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Javad currently serves as a member of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee. He is also serving on the Energy Editorial Advisory Board for Law360.

His experience includes representing: 

• Stonepeak in its $5.7 billion acquisition of a 40% interest in Louisiana LNG, a 16.5 mtpa liquefied natural gas production and export terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana with an estimated capital cost of $17.5 billion;
• EQT Infrastructure VI (in the consortium led by GIP and EQT) in respect of the take private acquisition of AES Corporation, representing an enterprise value of $33.4 billion;
• Blackstone in the financing of Related Digital’s $16 billion data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, purpose-built for Oracle;
• A developer in the joint venture, construction, offtake and project financing arrangements in a major 'circular economy' ASR recycling project in California;
• Capital Power Corporation in its $2.2 billion acquisition of the (i) 1,124 MW Hummel Station, a combined-cycle natural gas facility in Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania and (ii) 1,023 MW Rolling Hills plant, a combustion turbine natural gas facility in Wilkesville, Ohio;
• CIM Group and Novva Data Centers in their entry into a $2 billion construction loan with JPMorgan Chase and Starwood Property Trust for the development of a 175 MW data center campus in West Jordan, Utah, among the largest construction loans ever for a data center;
• Affiliates of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in respect of a strategic investment in Torch Clean Energy, a premier U.S.-based utility-scale solar and storage developer; 
• Blackstone, in its largest ever investment in the data center industry and the Asia Pacific region generally to date, and the buyer consortium formed with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in respect of the A$24 billion (US$16.1 billion) acquisition of AirTrunk; and

• Blackstone in the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a leading sustainable hyperscale data center developer.

• LS Power in respect of more than a dozen project developments, acquisitions, disposals and financings, including in respect of (i) transmission projects, (ii) power generation projects, and (iii) energy storage projects (including pumped-hydro and BESS storage);
• BlackRock Alternatives in respect of its joint venture with Daimler Truck and NextEra Energy Resources to develop and operate (i) hydrogen refueling and (ii) electric truck fast chargers in major transport corridors across the United States;
• BlackRock in respect of its auction sale of the 240 MW Big Sky wind generation project in PJM to Vitol;
• SoftBank Energy in respect of project financing arrangements for its (i) 250MW_DC Aragorn project in Texas, (ii) 350 MW_DC Athos I project in California, (iii) 300 MW_DC Athos II project in California, (iv) 425 MW_DC Juno project in Texas and (v) 375 MW_DC project in Texas;
• ArcLight Capital Partners in respect of various power generation acquisitions, bids, and commercialization arrangements, including the power purchase tolling arrangements for the Arthur Kill facility, and the power purchase tolling arrangements for the ISO-NE Montville and Middletown facilities in CT;
• Toyota Tsusho and JERA in respect of their sale of the 875 MW Goreway Power Station in Ontario, Canada to Capital Power;
• EVgo in respect of its joint development with General Motors and Pilot Flying J of 2,000 electric vehicle fast chargers across 13 states across the United States;
• EVgo in respect of its development partnership with General Motors to add 2,700 fast-chargers across 40 cities;
• Pacific Traverse Energy in respect of its gas transportation and offtake arrangements for the Cedar LNG project in British Columbia, Canada;
• The lenders in respect of Dominion Energy’s $3 billion project financing for its Cove Point LNG project;
• GEVO in respect of the construction and financing arrangements for its $68,000,000 PAB green bond project financing for its renewable natural gas project in Iowa; and
• Actis in respect of the acquisition financing of a $1.3 billion power generation and infrastructure portfolio in Mexico from InterGen, comprising a 2.2 GW portfolio of six CCGT gas-fired projects, a 155 MW wind project, and certain gas compression and transmission infrastructure.

Javad received his LL.B from the University of Melbourne. He is admitted to practice in California, New York and Texas. He contributed to the USA chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Project Finance in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.