Milbank’s global energy practice advises financial institutions and national and international energy companies on oil and gas transactions. Project development and finance is the practice’s main focus, but the team also advises clients on minority interests and private buy and sell-side mandates across the oil and gas value chain. From New York, Daniel Bartfeld and Daniel Michalchuk lead the team. Bartfeld, the firm’s global energy practice chair, is a key advisor to banks, investment firms, multinational companies, and developers across the conventional and renewable energy sectors; Michalchuk specializes in representing project sponsors and financial institutions in domestic and international project financing. New York-based Sean O’Neill supports the team’s domestic and cross-border financing ability in the industrial sectors.
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Key clients
- The Blackstone Group
- MUFG
- Los Ramones Sir
- Hope Gas Holdings
- Lumina Capital
- Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
- HSBC Bank USA
- JPMorgan Chase Bank
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Barclays Bank
- ING Capital LLC
- Wells Fargo Bank
Work highlights
Advised Blackstone Credit & Insurance in connection with an equity investment to fund the development, construction and operation of Sempra Infrastructure Partners’ Port Arthur LNG Phase 2.
Advised the Lenders in connection with the acquisition by Stonepeak of a 40% stake in Louisiana LNG Infrastructure LLC, a joint venture with Woodside Energy Group Ltd.
Advised the joint lead arrangers in connection with a $2bn syndicated secured term loan facility to finance the development of the Vaca Muerta Sur Oil Pipeline project in Argentina.
Practice head
Dan Michalchuk; Dan Bartfeld
Other key lawyers
Sean O’Neil