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Practice Experience

Mr. Alexander concentrates in international finance and banking, especially in areas of project financing and sovereign borrowing. He is active in international project financings in the power, oil and gas, telecommunications, mining and pulp and paper industries on behalf of US and foreign institutions, sovereign governments and their agencies.

Since 2002, Mr. Alexander has received top rankings for project finance in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, Legal 500 USA and PLC Which Lawyer, and for Latin American investment in Chambers USA.

Representative transactions include:

Representation of BayernLB, Nord/LB, UBOC, Rabobank and Santander in connection with the US$352 million project financing of the 150 MW Lost Creek wind farm in DeKalb County, Missouri. The innovative portion of the capital structure involved a bridge loan from the banks that will be repaid at project completion from the proceeds of a Section 1603 grant made available under the recently-enacted US Stimulus Plan;
Representation of Hess Corporation and ArcLight Capital Partners in connection with the development, construction, operation and financing of a proposed 512 MW gas-fired power plant to be located in Bayonne, New Jersey, with sub-aquatic transmission lines;
Representation of IFC in connection with the US$500 million project financing of the CTA 165 MW coal-fired power project in Mejillones, Chile – Suez Energy Andino, S.A. is the sponsor;
Representation of the commercial lenders (including WestLB, Calyon, SG Americas and DnB NOR) in connection with the 110 MW Chacayes hydroelectric power project in Chile. Pacific Hydro Pty Ltd is the sponsor. Work on this project began during the summer of 2008 and it closed in the first half of 2009;
Representation of Oxbow Power in connection with the development and construction of the Miravalles III geothermal power plant in Costa Rica;
Representation of Calyon and Fortis in the US$700 million project financing of the Nueva Ventanas III gas-fired power project in Chile;
Representation of IDB and various other lenders in the TEG I and TEG II coke-fired power projects in Mexico, the TermoPernambuco power project in Brazil, the Aguaytia gas and power project in Peru, the Costanera Norte toll road project in Chile, the Norvial toll road project in Peru, and the Termovalle project in Colombia;
Representation of Pertamina (the Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company) in connection with the development and financing of a series of major industrial facility projects, including the US$650 million Cilicap Refinery Debottlenecking Project, the US$440 million Kangean Gas Pipeline Project and the US$750 million Train F LNG Expansion Project;
Representation of the sponsors on the US$11.2 billion Qatargas II, 3 and 4 LNG projects in Qatar;
Representation of IFC, DEG, COFACE and the Bank of Nova Scotia in the US$200 million project financing of the Caucedo port project in the Dominican Republic; and
Representation of Fortis Capital in the US$200 million project financing of the Morris Cogeneration Power Facility in Illinois.

His general corporate work has included construction projects, joint ventures, leasing, corporate acquisitions, public securities offerings and domestic and international loan transactions. He spent three and a half years based in Jakarta, working on various public and private sector matters.

Mr. Alexander's work with sovereigns has included advice to the governments of Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Indonesia, Panama and Poland, in connection with privatizations, debt restructurings (including "Brady Plan" reschedulings), debt buyback programs, sovereign borrowings, securities offerings, project financings, development projects, joint ventures, international arbitrations and trade matters.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1988

Education
JD, New York University School of Law, 1987
MPA, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1987
BA, Haverford College, Watson Fellowship, 1980

Publications
Contributor, Issues to Improve the Prospects of Financing Nuclear Power Plants, International Atomic Energy Agency, July 2009
Contributor, Financing Global IPPs, Reuters Project Finance International, 2008
Co-author, "Project Finance" chapter in New York Lawyers Guide to Business Organizations, West Publications

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States