Alec Weingart
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Alec Weingart

Associate

Email

alec.weingart@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 312 598 2006

Offices

Chicago

V-CARD
Alec advises sponsors, developers, lenders and investors on the development, financing, acquisition, and sale of projects across the United States.

With a practice focusing on utility-scale and distributed renewable energy, Alec structures and negotiates transactions across the capital stack—including construction and term debt, back-leverage facilities, mezzanine financing, tax equity and transferability structures, and portfolio-level and warehouse financings.

Clients rely on Alec for pragmatic, commercially focused advice that moves transactions to closing on time and within budget.

Experience

Representative matters

  • ATLAS SP Partners as arranger for USD225 million construction and term facility to support Radial Power’s pipeline and operating platform of distributed generation projects, encompassing both asset- and portfolio-level, turnkey integrated commercial & industrial (C&I) and community solar projects. The transaction represents Radial Power’s inaugural portfolio-level debt financing.
  • ATLAS SP Partners as arranger for a USD300m warehouse facility to Distributed Solar Development (DSD) to finance a portfolio of commercial, industrial and distributed generation projects across the United States and as underwriter for the USD155m solar asset-backed securitization to DSD, which was the first C&I ABS successfully taken to market.
  • The Coordinating Lead Arrangers in an approximately USD250 million construction to term facility and letter of credit facility to a US renewable energy developer for a utility scale solar project in New Mexico.
  • Rabobank and CIBC, as lenders and issuing banks, in a senior secured bridge loan facility to a US utility and power generation company.
  • Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE), as sponsor, on multiple construction to term financings and tax equity financings of LRE’s utility-scale solar and wind projects throughout the United States.
  • A global financial institution in the hybrid tax equity financings of a nationwide portfolio of community solar and commercial and industrial (C&I) solar and storage projects being developed by affiliates of Brookfield Renewable.
  • Multiple Fortune 500 companies, as buyers, in the purchase of renewable energy tax credits.

Qualifications

Admissions

Illinois, US, 2021

Academic

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, JD, cum laude, 2021

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, BS, cum laude, 2016

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.