White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Arthur A. Scavone

Practice Experience

Mr. Scavone is a project finance lawyer with extensive experience involving international and domestic projects. He is the Global Head of the firm's Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group.

Mr. Scavone has represented export credit agencies, bilateral and multilateral agencies, sponsors, commercial banks and underwriters in projects involving power plants, pipelines, oil and gas concessions, mines, liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, coke batteries and other infrastructure and industrial projects.

Among the financings in which Mr. Scavone has participated are:
US Projects

The STP 3&4 project involving the project financing of a 2,700 megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant in Texas, in which he is representing Nuclear Innovation, a joint venture between NRG and Toshiba, as sponsor;
The Deer Park project involving the project financing of a gas-fired cogeneration facility in Deer Park, Texas, in which he represented Calpine Corporation as sponsor;
The Waterbury project involving the project financing of a peaking power plant in Connecticut, in which he represented Energy Capital Partners and FirstLight Power Resources as sponsors;
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi/FPL transaction involving a ¥12.5 billion term loan facility to FPL Group Capital Inc., in which he is representing The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as administrative agent;
The Sandy Creek project involving the US$1 billion project financing of a 900 MW coal-fired power plant in Texas, in which he represented LS Power and Dynegy as sponsors;
The Midway power project involving the project financing of a peaking power plant in California, in which he represented Starwood Energy as sponsor;
The Otay Mesa project involving the project financing of a 596 MW gas-fired power plant in San Diego owned by Calpine Corporation, in which he represented ING Bank and BayernLB as lead arrangers;
The Texas Wind project involving the project financing of a wind farm in Texas owned by FPL Energy, in which he represented BayernLB and Credit Suisse as lead arrangers;
The FPL National Wind project involving the “pooled” Rule 144A project financing of nine wind farms in the United States owned by FPL Energy, and the follow-on offering of Rule 144A notes by the holding company for these wind farms, in which he represented Credit Suisse as underwriter;
The FPL American Wind project involving the “pooled” Rule 144A project financing of seven wind farms in the United States owned by FPL Energy, and the follow-on offering of Rule 144A notes by the holding company for these wind farms, in which he represented Credit Suisse as underwriter;
The Stateline project involving the project financing of a wind farm on the Washington-Oregon border owned by FPL Energy, in which he represented ANZ Investment Bank and BayernLB as lead arrangers;
The initial public offering of Ormat Industries, an owner and operator of geothermal projects around the world, in which he represented Lehman Brothers as underwriter;
The OrCal project involving a Rule 144A project financing of two geothermal plants in California owned by Ormat Industries, in which he represented Lehman Brothers as underwriter; and
The TECO/Panda project involving the project financing of two gas-fired merchant power plants in Arkansas and Arizona, in which he represented TECO Energy and Panda Energy as sponsors.

Non-US Projects

The Signet project involving the Euro-denominated project financing of a solar manufacturing facility in Germany, in which he is representing U.S. Ex-Im Bank;
The JUJO project in Mexico involving the project financing of a nitrogen plant in Mexico that provides nitrogen to certain oil fields owned by PEMEX, in which he represented Air Products Corporation and Crya Infra Group as sponsors;
The World GTL project involving the project financing of a gas-to-liquids facility in Trinidad and Tobago owned by Petrotin and World GTL, in which he represented Credit Suisse as lead arranger;
The Q-Chem II project involving the US$1 billion project financing of a petrochemical facility in Qatar, in which he represented U.S. Ex-Im Bank;
The Chad-Cameroon project involving the US$3.6 billion project financing of an oil pipeline owned by ExxonMobil, Chevron and Petronas, in which he represented U.S. Ex-Im Bank as lender;
The Atlantic LNG project involving the US$1 billion project financing of a LNG facility in Trinidad and Tobago owned by British Petroleum, Cabot Corporation, British Gas and Repsol, in which he represented U.S. Ex-Im Bank as political risk guarantor;
Paiton I project involving the US$2.6 billion project financing of a coal-fired power plant in Indonesia owned by Edison Mission Energy, GE and Mitsui, in which he represented U.S. Ex-Im Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation as lenders; and
The Jawa Power project involving the US$1.6 billion project financing of a coal-fired power plant in Indonesia owned by Siemens and International Power, in which he represented U.S. Ex-Im Bank as lender.

Mr. Scavone practiced out of the White & Case Tokyo office from 1987 to 1989.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1986
New Jersey State Bar, 1984

Education
JD, Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, Law Review, 1984
BA, Accounting and Business Administration, Muhlenberg College, magna cum laude, 1981

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States