Alex Regan

• Energy Transition: an Asian utility on the financing of its acquisition of Spark Renewables; Sosteneo on the project financing for the Koorangie BESS project in Victoria; Pacific Green on a A$77 million devex loan facility from credit funds to finance the development of its BESS platform in Australia; Engie and Mitsui on the funding for Australia's first green hydrogen project; SUSI Partners and Starling Energy on the financing from CEFC for its virtual power plant business; Grupo Cobra on the project financing for the A$5 billion Central-West Orana transmission line project in NSW; Hydrostor on a US$55 million devex loan from Export Development Canada to finance its 200 MW advanced compressed air energy storage project in NSW; SUN Energy on the project financing for its Merredin Solar Farm in WA; Ratch on the project financing of the Collinsville Solar Farm, with financing from CEFC; CEFC on the project financing of the Bannerton and Oakey 2 Solar Farm, with Foresight as sponsor.
• Digital Infrastructure: Macquarie Technology Group on its A$500m senior debt financing for its data centre developments and a A$200m subordinated hybrid securities investments from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation; Amber Infrastructure on the financing for its acquisition of iSeek data centres; Goldman Sachs and Natixis on the financing of Brookfield’s acquisition of DCI Data Centres from Blackstone; lenders financing a bid for the Metronode data centre business; a global private equity firm on a bid to acquire a data centre business in Australia; Speedcast on its US$ Term Loan B financing into the US market and various other financings for bolt-on acquisitions; advising on the financings for several subsea cable projects out of Australia; advising on debt financings for several high-growth listed tech companies.
• Natural Resources: Kalium Lakes on the A$200m project financing of its potash mining project in WA, with financing from NAIF and KfW/Hermes; Salt Lake Potash on the financing of its potash mining project in WA, with financing from Taurus; Paringa Resources on the project financing of its mining project in the US; Mitsubishi on the development of the Oakajee port-rail and mine project in WA; Macquarie Capital and Brookfield on the $2.7 billion acquisition of Quadrant Energy and related financing; Horizon Oil on its borrowing base financing with various international banks; advising Tap Oil on its borrowing base financing with an international bank.
• Infrastructure: Genesee &Wyoming on its acquisition of the Adelaide to Darwin railway; advising on financing aspects related to the acquisition of PEXA by Link, CBA and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners; the NSW Government on the procurement of the Regional Rail PPP in NSW; a credit fund on its mezzanine financing of a bid for Glencore’s rail assets in NSW; advising Beijing Water on its acquisition of Trility Infrastructure in Australia. Advising on financings for bids for Port of Brisbane, Abbot Point Coal Terminal, Lane Cove Tunnel toll road and the Cross-City Tunnel toll road; advising on financings and/or bids for various social infrastructure PPPs (including NSW Social and Affordable Housing PPP, Ararat Prison, Vic Schools, Eastern Goldfields Prison, Royal North Shore Hospital and New Royal Adelaide Hospital).
• Energy, Infrastructure and Resources Transactions in Asia: including Optimal petrochemical project in Malaysia involving Islamic project bonds (project finance deal of the year); Horizon oil terminals project in Singapore (project finance deal of the year); the Santa Rita, San Lorenzo, Ilijan and Mindanao power projects in the Philippines; Cirebon power project in Indonesia; Ratchaburi power project in Thailand; Omon 2 power project in Vietnam; Lihir gold mine project in Papua New Guinea; True Mobile telecoms project in Thailand; various Powergen power projects in India; and various mining infrastructure projects in China and Mongolia.
• Private Equity and Leveraged Finance: financing of deals and bids relating to both private and public M&A, including PEP/Altus, Bain/Retail Zoo, Warburg Pincus/Survitec, PEP/AST, TPG Capital/PCCW, Bain/MYOB, CHAMP/Centric Wealth, Apollo/Nine Entertainment, Southern Cross Media/Austereo, CHAMP/Accolade Wines, McAleese/IES, CVC/Stella Travel, Civeo/MAC Services, Sun Capital/Invensys, CVC/Acument, GTCR/Global Traffic Network, Apollo/Ventia (including Australia’s first A$/US$ Term Loan B financing), Partners Group/Guardian Childcare, Reece Group/JP Morgan (US$ Term Loan B financing into the US market).

Alex has been recognised as a leading lawyer by:

• The Legal 500 (for Banking & Finance). He is noted as being "commercial, clear and concise" when advising on transactions.
• Chambers Global (for Acquisition & Leveraged Finance and also Energy, Infrastructure & Projects).
• IFLR1000 Australia 2020 - Highly regarded for Banking, Project development and Project finance.
• Best Lawyer's Australia since 2013 (for Banking & Finance Law, Private Equity Law, Leveraged Buyouts, Energy Law and for Project Finance and Development).