Lewis Malkin

Lewis's work focuses on advising domestic and international developers, investors, lenders, and sponsors in the acquisition and sale, development, and financing of energy and other infrastructure projects. Additionally, Lewis has experience in advising offtakers in power purchase agreements and the procurement of renewable energy to meet their decarbonization and ESG commitments.

Lewis also advises on more general corporate matters, covering domestic and multinational companies in financings and secured transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic corporate transactions.

Lewis joined the New York office in 2022 after spending four years in Baker McKenzie's London office. He has also spent two months in Baker McKenzie's Johannesburg office and six months with Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, working as part of the in-house legal team in London.

Energy M&A (US)

• Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with its investment in a 1.6 GW portfolio of renewable energy projects and related project development, construction and equipment supply contracts.
• Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with its investment in a 1.3 GW portfolio of operating solar and wind projects and related project development, construction and equipment supply contracts.
• Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with its investment in an approximately 605-megawatt (MW) portfolio of solar and solar-plus-storage assets spanning seven power markets and 11 states. The portfolio consists of more than 200 operational renewable energy projects, composed primarily of community solar and commercial & industrial solar assets, with more than a third of the total capacity paired with battery energy storage.

Infrastructure/Construction

• Advised a global steel and mining company on its development of a significant steel fabrication and rail production facility in the US.
• Advised the sponsors on acquiring an increased stake in a leading hydrogen production and storage project in the US.
• Advising a national supermarket chain on the construction and development of its automated material handling facility in the US.

Infrastructure/Energy M&A (Europe)

• Acted for an oil and gas company in relation to its acquisition of a portfolio of UK Continental Shelf upstream oil and gas assets from a US-listed E&P corporate.
• Acted for Macquarie European Infrastructure Funds 1 and 3 on the disposal of a 36% interest in Brussels airport to a consortium comprising QIC, APG and Swiss Life.
• Acted for Hitachi Ltd. on its USD 11 billion acquisition of ABB's power grids business in over 100 jurisdictions.
• Acted for Suez's UK Management in connection with Suez SA's buy-back of its former UK waste-treatment business from Veolia Environnement SA for USD 2.3 billion.

• Justin Miller Award (LLM Award for Leadership and Community Participation) (2021)

• London
• Johannesburg