Profile: John T Baecher

Project Finance

Biography: Project Finance

John Baecher is a partner in Chadbourne's project finance group. He concentrates primarily on project finance in the private power industry, as well as related general corporate and commercial law.

He advises sponsors, lenders and investors, including private equity funds, on the development and financing of privately financed independent power projects (IPPs) and on project restructurings, corporate financings and asset acquisitions and divestitures.

He has assisted several of the largest global independent power companies in the expansion of their US holdings and in their international development and acquisition activities in Latin America, the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe. Mr Baecher advises sponsors and lenders on evaluating and responding to requests for proposals issued by governments and investor-owned utilities relating to the acquisition or development of power plants and associated facilities, and transmission and distribution systems. Recently, he has been involved in power and renewables asset acquisitions in the United States and Latin America and various international project restructurings for a global independent power producer. He has also represented a private equity fund in its potential investments in the electricity sector in Greece and Africa.

Mr Baecher recently advised a global independent power producer on the financing of its acquisition of two petroleum-coke power projects in Tamuin in Mexico and a project restructuring in Latin America. He has also advised a private equity fund on its potential international investments and has advised the sponsor on the development and non-recourse financing of the AES Andres LNG and power project in the Dominican Republic, and the Guayama power and related dock project in Puerto Rico. He also advised Mexico's government-owned utility on its first RFP for independent power producers and a major energy investment fund on the first portfolio financing of IPPs.

He holds a BA from Hamilton College (1978) and a JD from Harvard University (1982).