Alex Becker
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Alex Becker

Associate

Alex concentrates on project financings and acquisitions across the power and infrastructure industries in the United States, Latin America and abroad.
Prior to joining the firm as an associate, Alex served in several legal capacities including as a Law Division intern for The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, legal intern for the Benjamin N. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, summer associate for the firm and most recently, as a judicial intern for the Honorable Patty Schwartz and Chief Justice of the Student Bar Association Judiciary.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

Power & Energy
  • Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates in connection with the financing of a portfolio of community solar projects located in the State of New York. The portfolio is owned and developed by ClearPath Energy and the financing will allow ClearPath to expand its existing 2-gigawatt pipeline further while accelerating the progression of late-stage development assets into construction and operations.
Mining & Metals
  • Nevada Copper as they closed their Restart Financing Package. The Restart Financing Package provides up to $123 million of liquidity to the Company in order to support the restart and ramp-up of the Company's Pumpkin Hollow underground copper mine, which is underway. The Restart Financing Package is comprised of several sources of funding, including additional stream and royalty funding, an incremental credit facility, deferred senior project and working capital interest payments, debt consolidation and warrants, additional equity and an additional backstop facility.
  • Thacker Pass: DOE in connection with the $2.26 billion loan to Lithium Nevada Corp. for Phase I of the Thacker Pass Project in Humboldt County, Nevada which will consist of a sulfuric acid plant and a lithium processing facility with feedstock from an adjacent open pit mine to be used for the development of lithium batteries. The Thacker Pass project, the largest-proven lithium reserve in North America, is expected to produce an initial 40,000 tonnes per annum of battery-quality lithium carbonate and support the production of up to 800,000 electric vehicles annually.
Manufacturing & Infrastructure
  • SK Siltron: DOE in connection with the $544 million loan to SK Siltron CSS, LLC to develop a new facility in Bay City, Michigan for the manufacturing of high-quality silicon carbide wafers to be used in semiconductor devices in electric vehicle (EV) systems and power electronics. The new facility is projected to be among the top-five manufacturers of SiC wafers globally, boosting U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and expanding its global leadership in clean energy technologies. The project will help meet market demand for EVs and, by allowing for higher efficiency and voltage, SiC semiconductors facilitate faster EV charging times and longer range.
  • ENTEK: DOE in connection with its USD1.3 billion direct loan to ENTEK Lithium Separators LLC to finance the development and construction of a new facility that will manufacture lithium-ion battery separators, which will be located in Terre Haute, Indiana. The separators will be used primarily for batteries in electric vehicles (EVs), thereby strengthening the U.S. lithium-ion battery cells supply chain and enabling the manufacturing of batteries used in advanced technology vehicles.

 

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Student Bar Association Judiciary Member
  • Chief Justice, 2021 - 2022
  • Member, 2019 – 2022

Awards

  • Recipient of the Cardozo Service and Achievement Award, 2022

Qualifications

Admissions

Attorney-at-Law, New York

Academic

JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2022

BA, Emory University, History and International Studies, 2019

Phillips Academy Andover, 2015

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.