Edward V. Kayukov

Clients turn to Edward V. Kayukov for counsel on their renewable and conventional energy projects.

Edward represents leading developers on energy matters, as well as financial institutions that finance renewable energy projects, including solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass. His experience spans debt finance, tax equity and tax credit transfer transactions in the US renewable sector, as well as financing of energy projects on an international scale, including projects in Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. He advises sponsors, borrowers, lenders, arrangers, and equity investors in all sectors of renewable energy, including standalone utility-scale energy storage projects. Edward also has experience with conventional power and energy infrastructure projects, including their acquisitions and dispositions.

Represented:

• TransGrid Energy on $1.4 billion financing supporting battery storage projects in Arizona with a combined capacity of 450 MW.*
• Lenders in the construction, letter-of-credit, and working capital debt facilities provided to a subsidiary of Pattern Energy Group in connection with the repowering of its 283MW Gulf Wind project in Texas.*
• An affiliate of Goldman Sachs Renewable Power in connection with the acquisition of over 200 distributed generation solar projects in nine states totaling 233 MW.*
• A power energy wholesaler in a private placement underwritten by four institutional investors.*
• Union Bank, Rabobank, BayernLB, Siemens Financial, CIBC, and CoBank in the $236 million construction and term financing of the Kawailoa wind project in Hawaii developed by a subsidiary of First Wind.*

*Matters handled prior to joining Mayer Brown.

• Stanford Law School, JD
• Moscow State Linguistics University, BA

• California