Mr. Chad Eric Mills

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Commodity Transactions: Negotiated on behalf of a major independent power producer a long-term virtual
  physical power purchase agreement for the sale of approximately 50 MW
  related attributes from new solar photovoltaic generation facility in PJM territory.
  Negotiated on behalf of a major independent power producer two long-term virtual power purchase agreements for proxy generation from new wind
  solar projects in ERCOT territory for a combined capacity of over 225 MW. Negotiated related firming swap to convert the purchased proxy generation profile into a round-the-clock baseload product.
  Represented a commodities trading firm as gas supplier in a number of tax-exempt bond financed prepaid natural gas transactions.
  Represented financial institutions in structured credit hedging
  off-take arrangement supporting the development or acquisition of power plants
  other energy assets.
  Represented several financial institutions in providing secured
  mezzanine financing to retail electricity
  gas providers.
  Negotiated power off-take
  fuel purchase arrangements for several project-financed power plants.
  Represented a power purchaser in negotiating a long-term power purchase with a wind facility in ERCOT.
  Represented a hedge provider in negotiating a long-term hedge, tracking account
  REC off take agreement for a wind facility in ERCOT.
  Represented a hedge provider in negotiating a long-term hedge
  tracking account agreement for a wind facility in ERCOT.
  Represented a power purchaser in negotiating a long-term power purchase agreement for a wind facility in the western U.S.
  Negotiated
  drafted more than 60 short-
  long-term LNG sale
  purchase agreements for major international
  national oil
  gas companies, financial institutions
  utilities.
  Corporate
  M&A Represented a commodities trading firm in its acquisition of Nexen's natural gas marketing
  trading business.
  Represented an energy company in the sale of two natural gas liquids pipelines.
  Represented the purchaser in the acquisition of several liquefied natural gas regasification vessels.
  Represented the underwriters in the proposed public spinoff of a natural gas pipeline system.
  Project Development
  Finance
  Represented a developer in developing an LNG export terminal.
  Represented a developer in the development of several compressed natural gas export projects.
  Represented the developer in developing a floating liquefied natural gas regasification facility.
  Represented developers in the development of two crude-by-rail projects.