Experience

• Counsel to Westward Partners LLC in the financing for the acquisition of Grant Aviation, Inc., an operator of scheduled and charter flights for passengers, cargo, and medevac throughout greater Alaska, as well as the delivery of U.S. Postal Service bypass mail throughout greater Alaska.
• Representation of an Oregon-based Fortune 500 company in connection with multiple refinancings of its credit facilities, which now have aggregate loan commitments exceeding $2.5 billion.
• Representation of Longroad Energy Holdings, a renewable energy developer, in connection with acquisitions of Maricopa County Arizona solar project and storage facilities by its wholly owned subsidiaries. Key project documents for the projects included membership interest purchase and sale agreements, module purchase orders and operations and maintenance agreements.
• Representation of Proterra Finance LLC, a Minneapolis-based private equity firm focused on investments in the natural resources sectors of agriculture, food, metals, and mining, in establishing a secured, term loan credit facility for a California-based producer of agricultural packaging materials in connection with its acquisition by a Washington-based private equity firm.
• Representation of Oregon-based manufacturer in connection with the amendment and restatement of an existing secured credit facility.
• Representation of grocery store chain in connection with a $45 million secured credit facility.
• Representation of an international energy company in connection with a $200 million senior secured credit facility.
• Representation of private equity firm in connection with four secured loans totaling $460 million and collateralized by 777 aircraft and aircraft leases.
• Representation of private equity firm in connection with a $200 million secured credit facility used to finance the acquisition of a producer of education, health, and agricultural supplies.
• Representation of integrated power company in the sale of five power plants totaling 785 MW to a subsidiary for $1.2 billion.
• Representation of a producer of education, health, and agricultural supplies in connection with an internal restructuring involving over 20 subsidiaries and their assets.
• Representation of international bank in connection with the amendment and restatement of a bike sharing program’s existing secured credit facility.

Honors & Activities

• Included in Best Lawyers^®: Ones to Watch in America (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law), 2023
• Speaker Chair, Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Charles G. Bluhdorn Prize in Economics, Tufts University, 2008  

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