Biography
Flannery is an associate in the Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Practice in the Washington D.C. office of White & Case. Flannery represents commercial banks, sponsors, export credit agencies, bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions in major cross-border project development and financing transactions.
Flannery graduated from Duke University School of Law and Yale University. During law school, she completed a semester at the Assas World Arbitration and Dispute Settlement program at Université Paris- Panthéon Assas. She also served on the board of the interdisciplinary journal of Law and Contemporary Problems.
Experience
Paraguay Green Fertilizer Project
Representation of ATOME PLC on the signing of debt financing documents for a US$420 million total debt package with respect to the US$650 million landmark, 260,000 tons-per-year, green hydrogen-based fertilizer plant at Villeta, Paraguay. It is a first-of-a-kind project that will produce calcium ammonia nitrate fertilizer from green hydrogen made from a low fixed-cost long-term supply of renewable power and without the need for fossil fuels.
Kazakhstan Railway Project
Representation of international commercial banks, in connection with two separate term loan facilities totalling approximately US$1 billion to National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC, the state-owned railway company of Kazakhstan, covered by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) under its Non-Honoring of Financial Obligations of Sovereign Owned Enterprises Guarantee and US-EXIM.
Solar Financing in Chile
Representation of T Power SpA, as borrower, T Power Holding SpA, as shareholder, Toesca Infraestructura II Fondo de Inversión, as sponsor, and the project-level subsidiaries, as subsidiary guarantors, on a US$325 million project financing for a greenfield 141 MW/677 MWh battery energy storage system and the associated refinancing of a co-located utility-scale PV solar project with an approximate capacity of 141 MWs and a portfolio of 18 PMGD small-scale solar projects totaling 121.1 MWp in Chile
DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing Program
Representation of SK Siltron CSS LLC and its affiliates in connection with a $544 million loan from the Federal Financing Bank, guaranteed by the United States Department of Energy under the Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing Program.
Brazil Wind Project
Representation of BNP Paribas, Banco Santander, Citibank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Natixis and Societe Generale in a non-recourse financing of US$700 million Feijão wind project in Brazil, which consists of 80 turbines with a combined capacity of 456MW to be constructed in phase one and the option to develop up to 130MW of solar power in phase two. This transaction was awarded "Latin America Deal of the Year: Wind" by Proximo 2023,"Latin America" Renewable Energy Deal of the Year – Onshore" by IJGlobal 2023, "Wind Deal of the Year" by LatinFinance 2023 and "Project Finance Deal of the Year" by IFLR Americas.
Jordan Water Project
Representation of United States International Development Finance Corporation, Proparco and European Investment Bank in connection with the project financing of the US$1 billion Disi Water Project in the Kingdom of Jordan.