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Amy Maloney

合夥人

Amy Maloney focuses her practice on project finance and development, working with sponsors and financing sources including commercial and investment banks, developers and independent power producers, private equity funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors. Amy advises clients on the development, construction, operation, and debt and equity financing of various types of energy and infrastructure projects, including wind, solar, and other renewable assets, gas-fired facilities, gas and liquids pipelines, transmission lines, and transportation infrastructure.

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She is always very on top of things, has a very good sense of where the market is and has good commercial judgment.
Chambers USA
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She works through sticky issues with the other side in a manner that is extremely productive, efficient and leveled to a good result.
Chambers USA
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Amy’s transactions incorporate commercial bank debt, term loan B debt, 4(a)(2) private placement debt, “hybrid” bank/bond debt, and tax equity investments. She also works with sponsors and developers in project development activities, including the structuring and negotiation of commodity hedges, other project documents, and equipment financing.

Amy has been recognized in The Legal 500 US, with a group of senior lenders praising her for being “proactive and problem-solving” and for her “in-depth knowledge of the renewable energy financing market” in the 2017 edition. She is also recognized in Chambers USA for her proficiency with the financing, sale, and acquisition of assets in the power and renewables space and her “good commercial sense.”

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Amy was in the New York office of another global law firm, serving in its project development and finance practice.

 

  • Representing the lenders in a warehouse financing of a portfolio of residential solar projects in the United States
  • Representing the sponsor in the construction and back-leverage financing of a 50-megawatt solar project in Maryland
  • Representing the sponsor in the construction and back-leverage financing of a portfolio of solar projects in North Carolina, Texas, and Pennsylvania
  • Representing the buyer/borrower in an acquisition and financing of an interest in a 471-MWac solar project in Texas
  • Represented the sponsors in the senior, mezzanine, and equity financings and refinancing of a 1,485-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania
  • Represented the lenders in an acquisition financing of a 750-megawatt thermal project in New Jersey
  • Represented the lenders in a leaseco financing for a portfolio of fee properties underlying renewables assets in Arizona, Michigan, Connecticut, and Virginia
  • Represented the lenders in a construction loan facility for an approximately 80-megawatt solar project in Montana
  • Represented the lenders in a warehouse financing of a portfolio of residential solar projects in the United States
  • Represented the lenders in construction and term financings for fixed-base operators at two airports in South Florida
  • Representing the sponsor in an acquisition and financing of an interest in a portfolio of wind and solar projects in Illinois, Alabama, Nebraska, and South Dakota
  • Represented the sponsor in the construction financings of 199-megawatt, 287-megawatt, and 999-megawatt wind projects in Oklahoma, each of which was sold to a utility upon completion
  • Represented the institutional investors in the 4(a)(2) note acquisition financing of 375-megawatt and 345-megawatt gas-fired projects in Minnesota
  • Represented the sponsor in the construction financing of a 300-megawatt wind farm in Missouri that will be sold to a utility upon completion
  • Represented the institutional investors in the 4(a)(2) note financing of a 300-megawatt gas-fired project in West Virginia and a 250-megawatt gas-fired project in Virginia
  • Represented the sponsor in the mezzanine financing of a 620-megawatt gas and oil–fired project in Connecticut
  • Represented the lenders in a project finance loan warehouse facility for a public company
  • Represented the sponsor in the senior and mezzanine bank and 4(a)(2) note construction financings of a 620-megawatt gas-fired project in Pennsylvania
  • Represented the sponsor in the construction financing and sale of a 202.5-megawatt wind farm in Nebraska
  • Represented the sponsor in the bank and 4(a)(2) note financings of two 296-megawatt (total) hydroelectric projects in Pennsylvania
  • Represented the lenders in the construction financing of a 194.25-megawatt wind farm in Illinois
  • Represented the sponsors in the tax equity financing of a 298-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico
  • Represented the sponsor in the senior, mezzanine, and equity financings and commodity hedges of a 1,485-megawatt merchant gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania
  • Represented the lenders in the construction and back-leverage term financings of a 324-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico and Texas and a related 35-mile transmission line
  • Represented the lenders in the turbine and development loan for a 200-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico
  • Represented the lenders in the contemplated construction and back-leverage term financings of a 46-megawatt solar farm and a 16-megawatt solar farm in Hawaii
  • Represented the lenders in the construction and back-leverage term financing of a 200-megawatt wind farm in Nebraska
  • Represented the lenders in the bank and 4(a)(2) note financings of a 200-megawatt solar project in California and a 214-megawatt wind farm in Illinois
  • Represented the sponsors in the construction financing and refinancing of 378-mile transmission lines in Texas
  • Harvard Law School, 2004, J.D.
  • University of Pennsylvania, 2001, B.A.
  • Massachusetts
  • New York

Member, Project Finance Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2023)

Ranked, Projects, USA, Chambers Global (2022–2024)

Ranked, Projects, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2023, 2024)

Up-and-Coming, Projects, USA - Nationwide, Chambers USA (2021, 2022)

Next Generation Partner, Finance: Project Finance, The Legal 500 US (2019–2024)

Recommended, Energy: renewable/alternative power, The Legal 500 US (2019, 2024)

Recommended, Project Finance and Renewable/Alternative Energy, The Legal 500 US (2014, 2017, 2018)

Leading Individual, Project Finance, Who’s Who Legal (2020)

Recognized, Project Finance Attorney of 2016, Power Finance & Risk