Claudia Martin

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Martin’s experience includes the representation of project sponsors and financial institutions on a range of project development, financing and mergers & acquisitions transactions across the power and transportation sectors. Her recent representations include: 

• ING Capital LLC, as lender, in connection with a bridge loan facility to finance the acquisition of a 840 MWDC solar and 225MW battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio of projects in New Mexico by Exus North America. Part of the bridge loan facility proceeds will also be available to fund project costs for the TAG Project – a development project with installed capacity of 140 MW and 60 MW BESS in New Mexico;
• Investec Bank plc and Société Générale in connection with the development, construction, ownership, leasing, operation and maintenance of a natural gas storage project located in Anderson County, Texas, of which Phase 1 includes the development, construction and operation of approximately 24 billion cubic feet gas storage and related facilities;
• The lenders in connection with a series of financings in connection with and for Brookfield’s acquisition of Duke Energy Renewables;
• LS Power in leading a $25 million Series A round of preferred equity financing with a commitment of $400 million to be invested into Monarch Energy’s (a California-based green hydrogen project developer) large-scale electrolyzer projects to deliver green hydrogen to refining, chemicals, fertilizer, long-haul transport, and other hard-to-decarbonize industries; and
• Global Container Terminals Inc. (GCT) on the sale of GCT Bayonne and GCT New York, two container terminals in New Jersey and New York, to CMA CGM Group, a global shipping and logistics leader based in Marseille, France, and the refinancing of GCT’s existing indebtedness for two leading container terminals in the Port of Vancouver, GCT Vanterm and GCT Deltaport providing over 3.5 million TEU’s of capacity through Canada’s Pacific Gateway.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Martin earned her J.D. and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Ms. Martin is a native French speaker.