Sabina Jacobs Margot

Project Finance

• Represented the arrangers, agents, issuing bank, and green loan coordinators in connection with a $520 million Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 265 MW wind farm in Texas.  
• Represented the arrangers, agents, lenders, issuing banks, and Green Loan coordinators in connection with a $510 million Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 300 MW solar energy project in Missouri.  
• Represented the mandated lead arranger, Green Loan coordinator, agents, issuing banks, and lenders in connection with a $70 million Green Loan Principles-aligned assumption and combined amendment, restatement, extension and increase of combined restructuring and refinancing for an operating portfolio of behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems located in Southern California.  
• Represented the lenders, arrangers, agents, lenders, issuing banks, and sustainability coordinator on a $2.5 billion, secured, sustainability-linked working capital revolving credit facility, which features two ESG-related Key Performance Indicators with related covenants and price adjustments, to provide increased support for the growing project development pipeline of large-scale clean energy generation and storage facilities in the Americas.  
• Represented the arrangers, agents, lenders, issuing banks, and Green Loan coordinators in connection with a $1.15 billion secured letter of credit facility established to support the development of wind and solar energy and energy storage projects in the US.  
• Represented the arrangers, agents, lenders, issuing banks, and Green Loan coordinators in connection with syndicated, secured corporate credit facilities totaling $919 million, including a Green Loan Principles-aligned term loan, established to support one of the largest fleets of non-regulated renewable energy assets in the US.  
• Represented the issuing lender in connection with a $100 million secured letter of credit facility established to support the development of wind and solar energy and energy storage projects in the US.  
• Represented a leading independent specialist infrastructure credit fund manager, in connection with a $85 million credit facility for an affiliate of an industry-leading provider of end-to-end parking technology including electric vehicle charging station infrastructure.  
• Represented the arrangers, agents, lenders, issuing banks, and Green Loan coordinators in connection with a $500 million Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 204 MW wind farm in Illinois.  
• Represented the arrangers, agents, lenders, issuing banks and Green Loan coordinators in connection with a $1.1 billion Green Loan Principles-aligned build-transfer project financing of a 600 MW wind farm in Oklahom 

Real Estate and Corporate Finance

• Represented a Luxembourg holding company and its US portfolio companies in their $61 million refinancing of various properties in Manhattan, Miami, San Francisco, and Savannah.
• Represented a Luxembourg holding company and its US portfolio company in its $60 million acquisition and financing of an iconic Chicago office tower.  
• Represented foreign conglomerate and its US subsidiaries in the amendments to its $335 million secured credit facilities.  

• "Real Estate Workouts", Financial Lawyers Conference's 2023 Nuts & Bolts – Learning the Essentials: Commercial Finance, Real Estate Finance, and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Topics for Young Attorneys, September 28-29, 2023

Publications

Avoiding Potential Pitfalls and Liabilities Following a Spin-Off
INSIGHTS: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor 
March 2018
By: Sabina Jacobs Margot, Brittany N. Schmeltz, Stephen Glover, and Kristin A. Linsley

Possible Makeover for Make-Wholes After EFH
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
January 2017
By: Sabina Jacobs Margot

• American Bar Association (Real Estate and Business Law sections)
• California Lawyers Association (Real Property Law and Business Law sections)
• Los Angeles County Bar Association (Real Estate Finance, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy, and Business Law sections)
• Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Los Angeles