Leah Chacón

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Chacón's practice focuses on the representation of project sponsors and financial institutions in a range of US and cross-border financings. Her recent representations include: 

• Pattern Energy Group in connection with the debt and tax equity financing of the $11 billion SunZia 550-mile transmission line and related renewable generation projects, as well as the acquisition of the SunZia project from Southwestern Power Group*;
• Pattern Energy Group in connection with the debt and tax equity financing of its 105 MW Phoenix Solar project in Fannin County, Texas*;
• Pattern Energy Group in connection with a $205 million credit facility for the development of its 122 MW Conejo solar plant in the Atacama Desert in Chile*;
• Sonnedix in connection with a joint venture with Cox Energy América regarding the $120 million project financing provided by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation for its 160 MWp Meseta de los Andes solar photovoltaic (PV) plant located in the Valparaíso region of Chile*;
• Sonnedix in connection with its $99 million nonrecourse debt project financing of its 150 MW Atacama solar PV plant in Chile*;
• Starwood Energy Group in connection with acquisition financing for the 150 MW Crane solar facility located in Texas*;
• Brookfield Asset Management in connection with acquisition financing for the Los Ramones pipeline system in Mexico*;
• SunEdison, Inc. in connection with the financing of the first solar projects to be project financed in Honduras and the subsequent sale of the solar plants to Globaleq Mesoamerica Energy S.A.*;
• SunEdison, Inc. in connection with the financing of several projects in Chile, including the Javiera project, which was named Latin American Solar Deal of the Year by IJGlobal, and the Maria Elena merchant solar power plant in the Antofagasta region of northern Chile*;
• The credit support provider to affiliates of Invenergy LLC in connection with the development of a portfolio of gas-fired merchant power plants for PJM New England and ISO New England*;
• First Solar in connection with the financing of the 141 MW Luz del Norte solar power plant in the Atacama Desert in Chile*; and
• TerraForm Power, Inc. in connection with a $500 million secured term loan, the proceeds of which were used to finance the acquisition of certain renewable energy projects in the U.S. from Invenergy Wind LLC, and certain drop-down assets from SunEdison, Inc.*

*Indicates matters worked on prior to joining Milbank LLP.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Chacón is fluent in Spanish.  She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, her Master of Business Administration from Emory University and her J.D. from Emory University School of Law.

Ms. Chacón was named one of Law360’s 2021 Rising Stars, which recognizes top “attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.”