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Allen R. O’Neil
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Allen R. O'Neil

Partner

202.753.3431
Washington, DC
aoneil@mccarter.com

Clients come to Allen to help them meet their immediate electric energy needs and chart their power supply future.

Allen O’Neil advises cooperative, municipal and business clients on transactions ranging from negotiating power supply purchases to securing financing or structuring agreements for developing, acquiring or operating electric facilities. He drafts and negotiates agreements covering such areas as power purchase, fuel supply, construction, joint ownership, renewable energy credits, and equipment purchase in transactions involving varied power sources, including renewable ones such as thermal generation, solar, wind, hydroelectric, and biomass facilities. These agreements include working with various industry master agreements.

Allen has a rich background in secured and unsecured asset and corporate financing ranging from single lender to syndicated/multi-lender financing facilities. He prepares and negotiates general purpose lines of credit and credit facilities for long- and short-term financing for acquiring or constructing electric generation and transmission facilities. He has extensive experience applying for and negotiating loans with the Rural Utilities Service, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, and CoBank, ACB and advises clients on post-loan compliance matters, including helping them obtain approvals, consents, and waivers.

In serving his electric cooperative clients, Allen advises them on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and operational matters, power supply planning, and redevelopment projects.

To help companies prepare for their energy future, he guides them through traditional electric and renewable generation options and structures agreements best suited for those desired objectives.

Representative Matters

Power production company—Construction contract

Assisted a power production company in negotiating and drafting an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Contract for a 560MW combined-cycle generation facility.

Electric cooperative—Solar power purchase agreement

Assisted an electric cooperative in negotiating and drafting of a 100MW solar power purchase agreement.

Corporate entity—Virtual wind power purchase agreement

Negotiated and drafted a 220MW virtual wind power purchase agreement for a corporate entity.

Municipality—Power purchase agreements

Helped a municipality draft and negotiate multiple Edison Electric Institute Master Agreements and confirmations to facilitate block power purchases.

Electric cooperative—Conversion to indenture

Assisting an electric cooperative with the negotiation and conversion to a Rural Utilities Service indenture.

Electric cooperative—Debt prepayment

Assisted an electric cooperative with the prepayment of an existing Rural Utilities Service debt and the negotiation and drafting of a take-out loan agreement and security documents.

Electric cooperatives—Merger

Assisted electric cooperatives with a merger or consolidation of generation and transmission cooperatives.

Municipality—Renewable power purchase agreement

Assisted a municipality with drafting a renewable power purchase agreement involving small power production hydroelectric facilities.

Electric cooperative—Solar power purchase agreement

Negotiated and drafted a 5MW solar power purchase agreement for an electric cooperative.

Electric cooperative—Wind power purchase agreement

Assisted an electric cooperative in negotiating and drafting a 100MW wind power purchase agreement.

Electric cooperative—Operation and maintenance agreement

Assisted an electric cooperative with negotiating and drafting an operation and maintenance agreement for a jointly owned coal-generation facility.

Electric cooperative—Syndicated revolving credit facilities

Documented and negotiated $115 million in syndicated revolving credit facilities for an electric cooperative to provide short-term, interim financing for capital expenditures.

Electric cooperative—Construction loan

Represented a rural electric cooperative in procuring and documenting more than $151 million in federal loans for the construction of a biomass project.

Electric cooperatives—Wind generation supply agreement

Helped two rural electric cooperatives negotiate and draft power supply contracts for the purchase of 200MWs of wind generation.

Electric cooperative—Asset purchase

Drafted and negotiated an asset purchase agreement for an electric cooperative related to an integrated gasification combined cycle project.

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