Yuman Xu

Primary Focus & Experience

Yuman's recent representations include: 

• Investec in connection with an amendment to a credit facility to a parent company of project companies that own and operate a solar photovoltaic electric generating facility.
• Lenders in connection with the 1.25 billion credit facility for the construction and expansion of Lima Airport.
• Arclight in connection with the extensions and amendments of term and revolving credit facilities for the financing of various pipeline and power generation projects.
• Commercial bank lenders to a revolving facility financing for Brookfield equity and debt funds.
• Seller in connection with the tax credit transfer of a battery storage system and a PV system.
• Apollo Global Management in connection with the maintenance of Apollo-managed funds and entities to make a €500 million investment into an ad hoc operating affiliate of Air France that will own a pool of spare engines dedicated to the airline’s Engineering and Maintenance activities.
• Apollo Global Management in connection with the maintenance of €2.82 billion investment by Apollo-managed affiliated entities, funds and clients into the purchase of equity interests in the strategic real estate portfolio of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
• Apollo Global Management in connection with the maintenance of €2.75 billion investment by Apollo-managed affiliated entities, funds and clients into an Joint Venture between  an Apollo affiliate and an affiliate of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV.
• Apollo Global Management in connection with the €1.5 billion investment by Apollo-managed affiliated entities, funds and clients into an Air France-KLM operating affiliate holding the trademark and most of the commercial partners contracts related to Air France and KLM’s joint loyalty program (Flying Blue).
• Apollo Global Management in connection with an agreement for Apollo-managed funds and affiliated entities to make a €500 million investment into an Air France affiliate owning a pool of components dedicated to the airline’s Engineering and Maintenance activities.
• iCON in connection with due diligence for the acquisition of a gas distribution business.
• PSP FL USA LLC in connection with the amendment to appoint new lenders, establish new commitments and designate unrestricted subsidiaries in connection with a revolving facility and extend the existing facilities.
• Investec Bank plc as Lender and Administrative Agent in an approximately $46 million upsizing and amendment to a $155 million facility for the expansion of two liquid natural gas storage facilities and one liquid natural gas transport hub located in Texas and owned and operated by NorTex Midstream Partners, LLC, a subsidiary of Castleton Commodities International LLC.
• Deutsche Bank, as the Lender, in connection with a revolving credit facility that will finance the buildout of fiber-optic infrastructure by Intermountain Infrastructure Group, LLC, in Washington, USA and California, USA.
• LS Power in connection with its $480 million refinancing of three natural gas electric generation assets located in ERCOT with a combined capacity of 2.1 GW.
• LS Power in connection with a $300 million term loan financing to repay the indebtedness of certain of the borrower’s subsidiaries and for general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its subsidiaries.
• JPMorgan in connection with the $500 million financing for the development costs of newly constructed cellular towers, secured by a portfolio of over 2,000 cellular towers in North America.
• Morgan Stanley in connection with the Term Loan B refinancing of two power plants located in Pennsylvania and indirectly owned by Carlyle/Cogentrix.
• The lenders in connection with the financing of a new floating production system and associated crude oil and natural gas export pipelines to be located off the coast of Louisiana in the Keathley Canyon zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
• United States International Development Finance Corporation in connection with the expansion financing of Puerto Bolivar, a container port located in El Oro province, Ecuador.
• Goldman Sachs Bank USA in connection with the financing and subsequent upsizing of fiber assets in Texas, with expected upsizing for assets in California, Arizona and Nebraska and the possibility of additional assets in other geographic areas across the United States.
• Mizuho Bank, Ltd. as replacement debt facility agent in connection with the refinancing of the Commercial Loan Facility and K-Exim Guaranteed Facility to finance the development and construction of a LNG facility located in Manzanillo, Colima state, Mexico.
• BNP Paribas and Natixis in connection with the financing for the development and operation of a portfolio of solar projects in Chile, including one utility-scale project and 26 PMGD projects.
• The borrower in connection with the financing of an approximately 965 MW (nominal) natural gas-fired electric generating plant consisting of five simple cycle peaking units located in Wilkesville, Ohio.
• Investec Bank plc and Société Générale in connection with the development, construction, and operation of a natural gas storage project located in Anderson County, Texas.
• The lenders in the $640 million senior secured term loan and revolving facility for Mobilitie, one of the largest privately held telecommunications infrastructure company in the United States.
• Blackstone Credit in its acquisition of 49% ownership interest in Elba Liquefaction Company, a joint venture entity of the Elba Island LNG facility.
• Investec in connection with its $58 million financing of the construction and operation of the 380 MW natural gas fired simple-cycle electric generation facility in Lee County, Illinois.
• Allianz as purchaser in a $150 million private placement securitization of lease receivables to be owned by Renewa I LLC and its subsidiaries relating to a portfolio of solar and wind ground leases throughout the United States.
• MUFG Bank, Ltd. in connection with a tax equity funding for a series of roof or ground-mounted photovoltaic solar installations together with any co-located battery energy storage systems across the United States.
• The lenders in connection with the $250 million refinancing of Minera Antucoya in Chile.