Ashley J. Nguyen

Ashley’s experience includes advising:

Renewables and Energy Transition

• HIF Global, an international electrofuel company, on its equity raise and investment from each of MOL, Idemitsu, and Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security into HIF Global
• Orsted on a joint venture with Skyborn Renewables, a Global Infrastructure Partners portfolio company, relating to the South Fork Wind and Revolution Wind offshore wind farms
• AB Carval on its US$700 million equity investment in and debt financing for Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC, an integrated multi-technology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage
• Chevron U.S.A. on: 
  • A joint venture with Microsoft, Schlumberger, and Clean Energy for a bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration project designed to produce carbon-negative power in Mendota, California
  • A joint venture with Bunge Limited for renewable feedstock plants in Destrehan, Louisiana, and Cairo, Illinois
• Amp Americas on:
  • Acquiring waste-to-carbon-negative renewable natural fuel assets from Generate Capital, as well as on Generate Capital’s associated investment into Amp Americas
  • Acquiring a waste-into-carbon-negative renewable natural gas and electricity assets from Vitol
  • Preferred equity raises
• Partners Group on acquiring Resilient Infrastructure Group, a water infrastructure platform focused on acquiring, developing, financing, and operating distributed water-related facilities in the US and Canada
• Resilient Infrastructure Group on acquiring a wastewater-to-renewable natural gas plant

Oil and Gas

• Diversified Energy on an asset-backed securitization of joint venture oil and gas E&P assets with features aligned with the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles of the International Capital Markets 
• Sandpoint Resources, a Carnelian Capital portfolio company, on its divestiture of Eagle Ford oil and gas E&P assets to SilverBow Resources
• Pacific Drilling on a pre-arranged chapter 11 restructuring to address over US$1.1 billion of funded debt obligations and other legacy liabilities
• BHP on a joint operating agreement with Chevron for deepwater Gulf of Mexico exploration and development projects
• SK Innovation on a US$1.1 billion divestiture of Blocks 56 and 88 in Peru to Pluspetrol*
• Repsol E&P USA on:
  • An alignment transaction and multibillion-dollar development arrangements with Oil Search (Alaska) for the Nanushuk Field in Alaska’s North Slope*
  • An exchange transaction and joint development arrangement with LLOG Exploration involving several deepwater blocks in the Gulf of Mexico*
• ArcLight Capital Partners on Third Coast Midstream’s acquisition of midstream assets in Alabama and Mississippi from Southcross Energy in a bankruptcy 363 sale*

Other Energy and Infrastructure Transactions

• Centerpoint Energy on its US$1.2 billion sale of Louisiana and Mississippi natural gas local distribution businesses to Bernhard Capital Partners
• IPL on its US$1.675 billion sale of ammonia manufacturing facility located in Waggaman, Louisiana to CF Industries 
• Consolidated Communications on its sale of Washington state telecommunications assets to Palisade Infrastructure
• Aeva on its US$1.7 billion deSPAC merger with InterPrivate Acquisition Corp.

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham