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Hilary R. Kao is an associate in the Global Project Finance Group located in the New York office.
Mr. Kao has represented project sponsors and financial institutions in a variety of sectors, including renewable fuels and energy (ethanol, wind, geothermal), oil and gas (development, production and downstream refinery facilities), transportation infrastructure (toll road), power (natural gas, coal, cogeneration), telecommunications (fixed line, wireless and satellite) and natural resources (coal).
Mr. Kao's transactions over the past several years include representing the lenders in the White Energy Holdings ethanol three plant portfolio acquisition and construction financing with an aggregate production capacity of 245 MMGPY, representing the first-lien lenders in a first-lien/ second-lien project financing to rehabilitate and expand an existing domestic coal mine producing metallurgical coal, representing the lenders in the BostonGen restructuring and recapitalization of a 3000MW portfolio of power plants in the Northeast (2005 Deal of the Year), representing the lenders in the recapitalization of the Lake Road power project in the Northeast, representing the lenders in sale of the La Paloma power project in California the largest all-cash sale of a lender-owned generating asset (2005 Deal of the Year), representing lenders in the financing of the greenfield 340 mile Cheyenne Plains natural gas pipeline in the US, representing QUALCOMM, Inc. in various matters relating to the restructuring and disposition of cellular assets in Brazil, representing the lenders in the sale of NRG-McClain power project through bankruptcy auction process and representing Macquarie Infrastructure Group in the financing of the SR125 toll road in California.
Mr. Kao received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. | 