Amy Maloney

Partner

Amy Maloney focuses on project finance and development, working with sponsors and financing sources, including commercial and investment banks, private equity funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors. Amy advises clients in the development, construction, operation, and debt and equity financing of various types of energy and infrastructure projects, including wind, solar and other renewable assets, gas and liquids pipelines, transmission lines, natural gas and coal-fired facilities, liquefied natural gas processing facilities and fuel storage facilities.

She is always very on top of things, has a very good sense of where the market is and has good commercial judgment.

Chambers USA

She works through sticky issues with the other side in a manner that is extremely productive, efficient and leveled to a good result.

Chambers USA

Extended Profile

Amy’s transactions incorporate commercial bank debt, term loan B debt, 4(a)(2) private placement debt, “hybrid” bank/bond debt, and tax equity investments. She also works with sponsors and developers in project development activities, including the structuring and negotiation of commodity hedges, other project documents, and equipment financing.

Amy has been recognized in The Legal 500 US, with a group of senior lenders praising her for being "proactive and problem-solving" and for her "in-depth knowledge of the renewable energy financing market" in the 2017 edition.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, she was in the New York office of another global law firm, serving in its project development and finance practice.

Selected Representations

Represents the sponsor in the construction financings of 199-megawatt, 287-megawatt and 999-megawatt wind projects in Oklahoma, each of which will be sold to a utility upon completion
Represented the institutional investors in the 4(a)(2) note acquisition financing of 375-megawatt and 345-megawatt gas-fired projects in Minnesota
Represented the sponsor in the construction financing of a 300-megawatt wind farm in Missouri that will be sold to a utility upon completion
Represented the institutional investors in the 4(a)(2) note financing of a 300-megawatt gas-fired project in West Virginia and a 250-megawatt gas-fired project in Virginia
Represented the sponsor in the mezzanine financing of a 620-megawatt gas and oil–fired project located in Connecticut
Represented the lenders in a $500 million energy project finance loan warehouse facility for a public company
Represented the sponsor in the senior and mezzanine bank and 4(a)(2) note construction financings of a 620-megawatt gas-fired project in Pennsylvania; winner of the 2019 North America Power Deal of the Year by IJGlobal
Represented the sponsor in the construction financing and sale of a 202.5-megawatt wind farm in Nebraska
Represented the sponsor in the bank and 4(a)(2) note financings of two 296-megawatt (total) hydroelectric projects in Pennsylvania
Represented the lenders in the construction financing of a 194.25-megawatt wind farm in Illinois
Represented the sponsors in the tax equity financing of a 298-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico
Represented the sponsor in the senior, mezzanine, and equity financings and commodity hedges of a 1,485-megawatt merchant gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania; winner of the North America Conventional Power Project Finance Deal of 2016 by Power Finance & Risk
Represented the lenders in the construction and back-leverage term financings of a 324-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico and Texas and a related 35-mile transmission line
Represented the lenders in the turbine and development loan for a 200-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico
Represented the lenders in the contemplated construction and back-leverage term financings of a 46-megawatt solar farm and a 16-megawatt solar farm in Hawaii
Represented the lenders in the construction and back-leverage term financing of a 200-megawatt wind farm in Nebraska
Represented the lenders in the bank and 4(a)(2) note financings of a 200-megawatt solar project in California and a 214-megawatt wind farm in Illinois
Represented the sponsors in the construction financing and refinancing of 378-mile transmission lines in Texas; winner of the North American Transmission Deal of the Year award for 2011 by Project Finance
Represented the sponsor in the term loan B financing of a portfolio of operating gas-fired and hydroelectric power plants in the Northeastern United States
Represented the lenders in the construction and term financings of distributed generation solar power assets in California, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, and New Jersey
Represented the equity investor in the construction financing and subsequent back-leverage financings of two 4.5-mmtpa liquefaction trains for production of liquefied natural gas in Louisiana; winner of the Americas Deal of the Year award for 2012 by Project Finance International and North American Oil and Gas Deal of the Year award for 2012 by Project Finance
Represented the lenders in the bank and 144A financing of a 550-megawatt solar facility in California; winner of the North American Solar Deal of the Year award for 2012 by Project Finance
Represented the sponsor in the construction financing and refinancing of a 730-megawatt merchant gas-fired power plant in New Jersey
Represented the lenders in the acquisition term loan B financing of a 13-million-barrel oil terminal storage facility in Texas
Represented the sponsors in the construction and term financing of an 800-megawatt gas-fired power plant in California; winner of the 2011 North American Single Asset Deal of the Year award by Project Finance and 2011 Gas Power Plant Deal of the Year award by Project Finance International
Represented the lenders in the acquisition financing and 144A/bank refinancing of a 1,600-megawatt gas-fired cogeneration facility in Michigan; winner of the North American Acquisition Deal of the Year award for 2009 by Project Finance