Mayer Brown advises CDPQ on $3 billion investment in Invenergy Renewables from Blackstone Infrastructure Partners

Mayer Brown advised Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global institutional investor, on an approximately $3 billion equity investment by Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (Blackstone) in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC (Invenergy), the largest private renewable energy company in North America.

Blackstone’s investment will provide capital to accelerate Invenergy’s renewables development activities. CDPQ and Invenergy management remain majority owners of the company and Invenergy will continue as a managing member.

The Mayer Brown team included: Corporate & Securities partner Paul Crimmins; Projects & Infrastructure partners Paul Astolfi and Mark Williams, counsel Heather Feingold and associates Karl Brandt, Kathleen McNeil and Andrea Zambrano; Tax Transactions & Consulting partners James Barry and Daniel Kiely and associate George Haines; Litigation & Dispute Resolution counsel Meytal McCoy and Roger Patrick; and Public Policy, Regulatory & Political Law partner Timothy Keeler and associate Michael Leibner.