Infralogic Investors Forum New York 2023
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Saurabh Anand is a Managing Director with Carlyle’s Infrastructure Group where he co-leads renewables and energy transition sector investment strategy. Mr. Anand serves on the Board of Directors of Aspen Power, AlphaStruxure, Fermata Energy, and Enewill. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Anand was a Managing Director with the Sustainable Infrastructure investment team at Denham Capital, a global energy transition investment firm, where he led multiple investments and served on the Investment Committee and Board of Directors of portfolio companies. Earlier, Mr. Anand spent four years with GE Energy Financial Services focusing on investments in power and energy.
Mr. Anand received a Bachelor of Engineering from Panjab University and a Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Ray is a partner in White & Case’s Project Development and Finance group based in the New York office. His practice focuses on the tender, development, financing, acquisition and divestiture of domestic and international projects in the renewable energy, conventional power, oil & gas, petrochemical and infrastructure sectors. Ray’s financing experience includes international corporate and commercial transactions, including the full spectrum of debt solutions, equity investments, asset-based structured financings and capital markets transactions.
Ray has extensive experience with all of the industry issues and negotiation dynamics for each link of a project, including drafting and negotiating the full range of finance and project documentation. His ability to represent both developers and lenders at various stages of a transaction, including the early design and engineering stage, provides a distinctive versatility to his practice and critical overall deal perspective to his clients.
Paul is a Partner in Pantheon’s Global Infrastructure and Real Assets Investment Team. He previously worked at GIC, from 2012, where he was Senior Vice President, Infrastructure with a global remit focussing on primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities. Paul also has expertise in infrastructure direct investing and infrastructure debt transactions. Prior to GIC, Paul worked at Challenger Infrastructure and Macquarie Capital. Paul studied Business at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant, and a Member of the Securities Institute. Paul is based in San Francisco.
Mr. Camiña is a Partner and Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Credit. Jorge brings over 20 years experience in project finance and investment management, having held senior positions at both Allianz Global Investors and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking. In his most recent role, as Director of Infrastructure Debt at Allianz Global Investors since 2016, Mr. Camiña was responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of Infrastructure Debt investments in the Americas. He led the execution of a strategic shift towards renewable power across US and Latin America, investing in over three gigawatts of solar and wind assets. He was also member of the Infrastructure Debt investment committee. Jorge received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration by Deusto Business School in Spain.
Crosby Cook joined EQT Partners in September 2013.
Prior to joining EQT Partners, Crosby worked at Metalmark Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm based in New York and focusing on investments in the energy, industrial, healthcare, and defense sectors. Previously, he worked as an analyst in the M&A investment banking group at Jefferies & Company in New York.
Crosby holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bowdoin College.
Current directorships: First Student First Transit, Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.
Gisele Everett is Senior Managing Director and Head of Americas for OMERS Infrastructure and is based in New York City.
Since joining OMERS in 2019, Gisele has been instrumental in shaping Infrastructure Americas’ strategy, portfolio construction, portfolio company value creation plans, and talent development. Under her leadership, Infrastructure Americas has completed several transactions including new investments in Direct ChassisLink Inc. (DCLI) and Navisun, and dispositions of GNL Quintero S.A. (GNLQ) and the Chicago Skyway, amongst others.
Prior to joining OMERS, Gisele held roles at Anchorage Capital Group, Deutsche Asset Management and Citigroup, having led teams responsible for the investment lifecycle from deal origination and execution through value creation to dispositions, across sectors including energy, industrials, telecoms and cleantech. She also held board director roles in over 15 companies covering various geographies and sectors.
Gisele has a BBA (finance major) from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and an MBA (finance major) from Cornell University. She speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Edward is Managing Director for National Bank Financial and Co-Head of US Investment Banking Power, Utilities & Infrastructure. Edward has more than 25 years of infrastructure investment banking and advisory experience in sectors that include water, wastewater, transportation, power/energy, and social infrastructure. Edward’s water-related experience includes: the concession/divestiture of Lower Colorado River Authority’s water assets; Carlsbad Desalination; Rialto Water/Wastewater P3; Enertech Rialto Biosolids Project; San Juan Capistrano Desalination Project; and New Haven WPCA restructuring. Edward held similar leadership positions at Deloitte, BMO Capital Markets, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays. Prior to investment banking, Edward worked for a multi-national consulting firm specializing in large water, wastewater and other environmental-related projects.
Edward has degrees from The Cooper Union (BE), Manhattan College (ME), NYU’s Stern School of Business (MBA). Edward is a CFA charter holder and a licensed professional engineer.
Florestan Ferroux is a Senior Director, Infrastructure Financing, at CDPQ. In this capacity, he is responsible for building strategic partnerships for the Infrastructure Financing portfolio. He also develops and monitors the infrastructure financing strategy and portfolio.
Mr. Ferroux has close to 15 years of infrastructure structuring and financing experience. He has held different roles within CDPQ, including more recently, the position of Director, Transactions and Investments, at subsidiary CDPQ Infra, where he developed greenfield sustainable transportation projects. Before joining CDPQ, he was Vice-President, Infrastructure Advisory, at EY, where he advised public authorities and private sector clients in structuring and financing public-private partnerships.
Mr. Ferroux is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from HEC Montréal.
Mr. Foo is a Partner and Head of Global Infrastructure at Apollo, as well as co-head of Apollos Sustainability Investment Group. Mr Foo leads the firm’s infrastructure investment activities and chairs the Infrastructure committee. Mr. Foo has more than 20 years of industry experience investing in Asia, UK, Europe and North America, with a particular focus on mid-market assets in transportation, telecommunications and energy infrastructure. Mr. Foo currently serves on the board of directors of Brightspeed, Broad Reach Power and Primafrio. Mr. Foo received a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University and a Bachelor’s of International Business from Queensland University of Technology.
Emily Goergen Azer is a Principal of GI Partners. She currently serves on the boards of DRFortress and Rise Broadband. Prior to joining GI Partners, Mrs. Azer was a Vice President at Stonepeak Partners in New York where she focused on infrastructure investments in the Communications sector. Earlier in her carrier, Emily worked in the North America Private Equity and Global Infrastructure groups at KKR in New York and was an investment banking analyst with the Blackstone Group in New York. Mrs. Azer received her B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Alfred Griffin is Senior Managing Director and Head of Generate Credit at Generate Capital, where he leads the company’s credit lending platform for sustainable infrastructure. Previously, Alfred was founding President of NY Green Bank, a $1 billion New York State-sponsored specialty finance company focused on specialty finance for sustainable infrastructure and clean energy. He led the organization from concept to over $1 billion of investments, making NYGB the largest exclusively focused sustainable infrastructure private credit fund in the United States -- investing in solar, wind, storage, energy efficiency, fuel cells, controlled environment agriculture, sustainable transportation and other proven technologies expected to reduce greenhouse gases. Prior to NY Green Bank, Alfred spent 16 years with Citigroup Global Markets in a variety of structured finance roles in Capital Markets and Investment Banking. He holds bachelor’s and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Mr. Hughes served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Prisma Energy Capital, a private entity focused on investments in energy storage, from December 2017 to July 2019. He served as CEO of First Solar (NASDAQ – FSLR) from May 2012 to June 2016. Prior to joining First Solar, Mr. Hughes served from October 2007 until April 2011 as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of AEI Services LLC, which owned and operated power distribution, power generation (both thermal and renewable), natural gas transportation and services, and natural gas distribution businesses in emerging markets worldwide.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Hughes was President of Prisma Energy International and spent almost a decade with Enron Corporation in positions that included President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Global Assets, President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Asia Pacific, Africa and China and as Assistant General Counsel of Enron International.
Mr. Hughes is a Director of TPI Composites, Inc. (NASDAQ – TPIC), which is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of wind turbine blades with operations in the U.S., China, Turkey and Mexico. He is a Director of Alcoa Corporation, (NYSE – AA) which was spun out from Alcoa, Inc. in late 2016. Mr. Hughes is also a Director of PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE – PNM) an investor-owned utility with operations in Texas and New Mexico. He is the former chairman of the board of directors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is also a member of the Energy Advisory Board of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.
Mr. Hughes holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, a Certificate of Completion in International Business Law from Queen Mary’s College, University of London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.
Michael Jamieson is a Managing Director and Co-Head of North America in Citi’s Global Energy Group. His experience in the energy industry since 1994 represents over $300 billion in value and includes extensive advisory and financing assignments primarily for midstream and exploration & production energy companies in North America and Europe. Michael serves on the Board of Trustees for St. Francis Episcopal Day School, the Chancellor’s Advisory Council for TCU, as a founding Houston Board member of One Goal, and as an advisory director to Alerian MLP Funds. Michael received a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Texas Christian University and holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame Graduate School of Business.
Dave Joynt is Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group. In this role, he leads infrastructure investment activities in North America has a global focus on the transport sector. He also co-leads the investment team in Toronto.
Prior to joining Brookfield in 2020, Mr. Joynt was a senior principal at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on its infrastructure team across a number of geographies, including working as CFO of its Australian rail business. Previously, Mr. Joynt worked in private equity and advisory.
Mr. Joynt holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, and an Honours Business Administration degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, where he graduated as an Ivey Scholar.
Nanda Kamat joined MUFG in December 2009 and is currently the head of the Infrastructure Project Finance team. She has over 15 years of experience in project and infrastructure finance and while at MUFG has led numerous financial advisories for large-scale infrastructure projects including for the LAX Automated People Mover, I-395 Express Lanes, and Purple Line projects. She has also successfully closed financings in both the bank and bond markets for numerous greenfield and brownfield infrastructure assets, including PR-22, Long Beach Container Terminal, Veolia District Energy (now Vicinity Energy), and Indiana Toll Road. Nanda previously held positions at Transurban USA, Goldman Sachs, and Societe Generale. Nanda holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Finance from New York University.
Nasir Khan is responsible for Infrastructure Finance as well as Infrastructure related industry groups including Power and Renewables, Transportation and Social Infrastructure, and Telecommunications.
Khan has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure and energy project finance. He previously worked as Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure for the Americas at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, where he specialized in business development across lending, advisory, and capital markets, and was awarded numerous Deal of the Year awards. Earlier in his career Khan also held positions at Ports America Group and Citigroup.
ALLISON KINGSLEY is Founder and Partner of NOVA Infrastructure, a value-added, middle market infrastructure manager investing in environmental services, transportation, energy transition, and communications sectors in North America. Currently NOVA’s portfolio for its $565 million Fund I consists of seven investments: a vertically integrated waste management platform; a US Flag maritime logistics business; a fixed base operator aviation platform; a port-centric storage and logistics platform; a renewable natural gas business; a fiber-to-the-home business; and a fixed wireless business.
At NOVA, Allison leads the sourcing and execution of infrastructure investments and sits on the Investment Committee. Currently, Allison serves on the Board of Directors for Bold Ocean, a government-contracted maritime logistics business operating US Flag vessels, and Harbor Logistics, a warehousing, drayage, and supply chain logistics business based in Charleston.
Allison has nearly 25 years of experience working in infrastructure. Prior to founding NOVA, Allison invested for infrastructure manager Reformation Capital and also executed bespoke investments for anchor PartnerRe’s principal finance portfolio. Previously, Allison worked at Ambac focusing on global project and structured financings. She started her career at Lehman Brothers in the M&A group in the investment banking division. In addition, Allison is a political economist and former tenured business school professor.
Allison holds a B.A. cum laude from Rice University, an M.S.L. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for YWCA Greenwich, an organization committed to eliminating racism and empowering women.
Vittorio Lacagnina is a Partner in the Institutional Client Group at Apollo where he leads product development for Sustainability & Infrastructure and serves as a member of the Infrastructure Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Apollo in 2022, Vittorio was Head of Business Development, Private Infrastructure at Partners Group. Vittorio has 26 years of industry experience across a variety of senior investment, advisory and capital formation roles.
Vittorio began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs where he acquired relevant transaction and coverage expertise across the Americas and Europe.
Vittorio graduated with a first-class BA (Hons) in international business from the European Business School, London.
Vittorio is a Member of the Board of Governors of Ocean Exchange, whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of innovative solutions for a sustainable blue economy. He is also a supporter of Glasswing International involved in Youth Development, Community Empowerment and Trauma-Informed Care in Central America.
Todd Lapenna is a member of the infrastructure and real assets team. Lapenna is also involved in various investment activities.
Prior to joining StepStone, Lapenna was a portfolio manager at CalPERS where he led new investments, strategy and portfolio construction for the infrastructure program. Before that he held various investment and capital markets roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland, CIT, Export Development Canada, and Westcoast Energy. Lapenna has executed numerous debt and equity investments in private market power, renewables, energy, utilities, transportation, water and industrials.
Corey Lewis joined Aon's Transaction Solutions team in June 2015, focusing on tax insurance. Prior to joining Aon,Corey was an associate in the International Tax Services: Financial Services/Real Estate division in the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. At PwC, Corey focused primarily on the tax structuring of international real estate investments.
Sadiq Malik is a Managing Director at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Malik is a seasoned investment professional with over 20 years of in-depth investing experience in private, distressed and public companies across a variety of industries including the digital infrastructure verticals of towers, data centers, fiber and ground lease buyouts. At DigitalBridge, Mr. Malik is responsible for identifying, evaluating, consummating, and managing investments across all our verticals globally with a specific focus on the Americas and the MEA regions.
Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Malik was a co-founding partner of Oskie Capital, a public and private equity firm, which invested in companies undergoing positive business transformations and corporate change. Previously, he also worked on President Obama’s Auto Task Force at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the financial crisis in 2009.
Earlier in his career Mr. Malik was an investment professional at Och-Ziff Capital, The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Malik received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.
Emmett McCann is a managing director and co-portfolio manager of Oaktree’s Infrastructure Investing strategy, specializing in the transportation sector. He is also a member of Oaktree’s ESG Governance Committee. Mr. McCann joined Oaktree in 2014 from Highstar Capital with over 19 years of experience in infrastructure, private equity, investment banking and finance. During his tenure at Highstar, Mr. McCann helped lead the firm’s first airport investment, London City Airport, and led the first major public-private partnership (“PPP”) for an U.S. airport, the 40-year lease of the Luis Munoz Marin Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to joining Highstar in 2009, Mr. McCann helped build Morgan Stanley's infrastructure effort in Europe and North America. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was part of the team that established the infrastructure investment banking practice at Goldman Sachs. Over his career, Mr. McCann has advised multiple government agencies (both in the U.S. and internationally) on Public-Private Partnerships (“PPP”) across the transportation sector. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Ports America Companies and LoneStar Airport Holdings LLC. He previously served on the boards of Aerostar Airport Holdings and CrowdVision Ltd. Mr. McCann holds a B.A. degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago.
Matthew is a Managing Director with OMERS Infrastructure’s team in Toronto, where he is responsible for the origination, execution and management of infrastructure investments. Matthew’s current responsibilities include the key investment themes of mobility, natural systems and community services across the Americas. He joined OMERS in 2021.
Prior to joining OMERS, Matthew spent 12 years at Evercore, where he was most recently a Managing Director in the Americas infrastructure advisory team. While at Evercore, Matthew covered businesses across the full spectrum of infrastructure including the core, core-plus and value-added sectors. Prior to Evercore, Matthew was with the Macquarie Group, with roles at Macquarie Capital Advisors and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
Matthew has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University, and a Masters of Finance degree from INSEAD.
Dolly's practice focuses on the infrastructure and energy sector, including public private partnerships, reflecting 25 years of experience working on some of the most significant deals in the sector. She represents sponsors, infrastructure funds, commercial banks, institutional lenders, contractors, secondary market investors and governments in the tender, development, acquisition and financing of greenfield and brownfield infrastructure projects. Dolly has advised across multiple infrastructure asset classes including surface transportation (airports, ports, roads, parking, bridges, transit and rail), water and wastewater, waste management, district energy, digital and social infrastructure. Her breadth of practice and decades of experience allows her to anticipate concerns, propose solutions and promote agreement. She has played a leading role in the introduction of private investment and finance in the infrastructure sector in North America, having advised on multiple, award-winning transactions, including ones that were first-of-their-kind.
Stuart Murray is North America Head of Infrastructure Debt and is responsible for further enhancing BlackRock's origination effort and investment strategy in this key region. With over 20 years of industry experience, he brings wide-ranging expertise in infrastructure financing, strong industryr elationships, and in-depth understanding of the Americas infrastructure debt markets. Mr. Murray spent 17 years at Citigroup and was most recently Americas Head for Citi's Project & InfrastructureFinance team, covering all industry sub-sectors (e.g. renewables, power, energy, digital, social, transport) of the Infrastructure markets across North America, Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean. Prior to Citi, Mr. Murray was Director of Corporate Finance at The AES Corporation, a global independent power producer. Prior to AES, he spent five years in Leveraged Finance atJPMorgan Chase based in New York and London.
Mr. Murray earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hamilton College and an MBA degreefrom the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Lars Pace is a Principal on Hamilton Lane’s Real Assets Investment Team, where he is responsible for due diligence of primary fund opportunities in infrastructure and real assets. Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2010, Pace was a portfolio manager at American Beacon Advisors, Inc., where he oversaw a USD 1bn portfolio of private equity investments. Previously, Pace was a Financial Analyst with American Airlines Inc. and Ford Motor Company.
Rishi Patel is a Principal in the global credit group. Rishi has over twelve years of investment experience and has invested$4bn+ across the capital structure and arranged $20bn+ in high yield corporate and asset backed credit opportunities. He joined I Squared Capital from Upwell, a private global asset manager focused on investing in purpose driven platforms in renewables, water, and digital infra, where he served as a Principal on the investment team. Before joining Upwell, Rishi worked in Deutsche Bank’s Transportation, Infrastructure, and Energy Financing Group, where he was a Vice President leading special situation investments. During his tenure at Deutsche Bank, Rishi structured and executed opportunities globally, across the capital structure in various renewable, power, infrastructure, telecom, oil and gas, shipping, and aviation sector opportunities. Earlier in his career, Rishi worked as an investment analyst at Macquarie in the Distressed Debt and Special Situations Trading group. He was also an analyst and member of the investment committee at activist hedge fund Barington Capital, working on several successful public activist campaigns. He began his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Leverage Finance Group, focused on natural resources and digital infrastructure. Rishi earned a B.S. from the NYU Stern School of Business where he graduated with Honors. He has been a guest speaker at NYU Stern Center of Sustainable Business.
Hadley Peer Marshall is a Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group and co-Head of its infrastructure debt business. In this role, Ms. Peer Marshall oversees the origination, execution and asset management of the Firm's infrastructure credit investments in the Americas.
Prior to joining Brookfield in 2015, Ms. Peer Marshall was Co-Head of the project finance and infrastructure group at Goldman Sachs, where she was responsible for originating, structuring, executing and advising on infrastructure and project financings for clients.
Ms. Peer Marshall holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A partner in the Paul, Weiss Corporate Department, Ravi Purohit is co-head of the firm’s Infrastructure Practice, a member of the Mergers & Acquisition Practice and a member of the Private Equity Group. Ravi advises strategic companies, institutional investors and financial sponsors globally on mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, investments, joint ventures as well as other general corporate and financing matters. He is a nationally recognized leading lawyer in the energy and infrastructure space and regularly counsels clients involved in oil and gas, renewables, utilities, transportation, telecommunication, water and waste transactions. Ravi’s experience encompasses more than $150 billion of transactions and many landmark energy and infrastructure transactions across various sectors including a number of first-of-their-kind deals.
Prior to his private legal experience, Ravi worked as a Managing Director and founding member of the Investment Team at Blackstone Infrastructure Partners and also recently served as the General Counsel of Blackstone Infrastructure Partners. Earlier, he also served as a Managing Director at Alinda Capital Partners, an infrastructure investment firm.
Ravi is a frequent speaker and writer on developments in infrastructure, energy, private equity and M&A. He has been quoted in numerous articles in business and legal publications.
Aman joined QIC’s New York office in 2018 and leads the Transport coverage in North America on both acquisitions and asset management, with particular responsibility for investment origination. Prior to joining QIC, Aman was Executive Director, Investment Banking, Infrastructure and Power at CIBC Capital Markets. Aman’s experience spans M&A, debt financing and public-private partnerships transactions across the transportation, water, energy and social infrastructure sectors. Before joining CIBC in 2014, Aman was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley based in New York. Prior to his MBA, Aman worked as a transportation planning engineer with a focus on developing travel demand models for toll road, mass transit and airport projects. Aman is currently a director of MI Longbeach LLC (the project vehicle for the Long Beach Courthouse PPP project), CampusParc LLC (Ohop State University Parking Concession), and MasParc and Mobility LLC (Northeastern University Parking Concession). Aman holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Thapar Institute (India), a Master of Science from Virginia Tech, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. |
Jorge Rodriguez is Managing Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets, covering both public and private debt placements at Marathon Capital. Jorge is responsible for developing Marathon’s suite of debt solutions and services to energy and infrastructure clients.
Jorge has over 20 years of investment banking, capital markets, and investment management experience, having raised, managed, and invested in energy and infrastructure transactions domestically and internationally in an amount exceeding $200B. He has held various positions in sell-side and buy-side capacities as an investment banker and principal investor across the energy and infrastructure sectors. Most recently, Jorge was Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, and Head of Infrastructure Debt at DWS, where he was responsible for the management and strategic direction of the global infrastructure debt business, including managing its $2B investment portfolio. Before joining DWS, Jorge was Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Finance at Dresdner Kleinwort, where he held roles in both New York and London, where he focused on the origination, structuring, execution, and placement of senior and mezzanine debt financings across all energy and infrastructure sectors. Jorge has previously held positions with Aladdin Capital, BNP Paribas, and Chemical Bank.
Jorge has been involved with several significant wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and hydro financings involving the acquisition, refinancing, project finance, and restructuring on behalf of financial sponsors and strategic clients.
Jorge received a BA in Economics and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.
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Elena Rubinov is a partner in Mayer Brown's Corporate & Securities practice. She maintains a broad M&A practice, representing public and private companies, including private equity and infrastructure fund clients, in corporate and business combination transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, co-investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations, restructurings and bankruptcy sales, among others. She regularly counsels clients in a variety of industries, including energy, infrastructure, media and entertainment, chemicals, financial services and retail. Additionally, she advises on debt and corporate restructurings in connection with equity recapitalizations, rights offerings and 363 sales and acquisitions.
Patrick Selinger represents clients in a wide range of U.S. and international transactions, including infrastructure development, mergers and acquisitions, project financings, and public-private partnerships.
Patrick also served as in-house counsel at a multi-national commodities trading company and as a secondee to the international legal department of a major Japanese trading house in Tokyo.
Cecilio Velasco (New York) joined KKR in 2012 and is a Managing Director on the Infrastructure team. Mr. Velasco leads KKR’s energy transition investments in the Americas. During his time at KKR, Mr. Velasco has worked with the Americas, Asia-Pacific and European infrastructure teams and has been involved in a number of investments globally including Pinnacle Towers, Ecorbit, First Gen, Nitrogen Renewables, NextEra Energy Partners, Acciona Energia Internacional, Bayonne Water and Middletown Water, among others. Prior to joining KKR, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York in the investment banking division. He holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance and Accounting, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.
James is a Senior Managing Director and is Head of Transportation & Logistics with Stonepeak. Prior to joining Stonepeak, James was a member of Credit Suisse’s Global Energy group, where he focused on the power and renewables sectors. James received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University.