Joshua J. La Vigne
Partner
jlavigne@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Wind
- Solar
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Private Equity Transactions
Biography
- Advises on complex corporate transactions and corporate governance matters.
- Represents public and private multinational companies on a broad array of issues.
- Counsels clients across sectors, including energy & infrastructure, asset management, technology and real estate, among others.
Josh focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and general corporate governance matters. He has represented publicly held and privately owned U.S. and multinational companies on a broad range of transactional matters, including public and private mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures and strategic partnerships, as well as other corporate governance matters.
Josh advises clients in a variety of industries, including energy & infrastructure, financial services technology, commercial finance, chemicals, technology, craft brewing and real estate.
Representative Work
- Represented First Sentier Investors in its acquisition of 40% of the equity interests in Terra-Gen, a leading renewable energy developer that operates over 1.3 GW of wind, solar, battery storage and geothermal facilities across the United States, and specializes in development, construction, and operation of utility-scale wind, solar, energy storage and geothermal generation facilities, from private equity firm Energy Capital Partners LLC, and represented FSI in related co-investment transactions in the Terra-Gen Power platform.
- Represented Ullico Infrastructure Fund, an infrastructure investment fund managed by Ullico Investment Advisors Inc., in its acquisition of a majority equity interest in Vista Ridge, LLC, the largest operating water public-private partnership in the U.S., from affiliates of Ridgewood Infrastructure, LLC.
- Represented a worldwide steel company in its agreements to construct and operate a new electric arc furnace in Calvert, Alabama.
- Represented CDK Global II LLC (f/k/a CDK Global Inc.) in the sale of CDK Global Heavy Equipment, its dealer management systems software provider for the heavy equipment business, to e-Emphasys Technologies Inc.
- Represented TC Energy in the acquisition of the Blue Cloud and Fluvanna I wind farms in Texas from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
EducationJ.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2015
B.S., Grand Valley State University, 2012
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2015
B.S., Grand Valley State University, 2012
Bar AdmissionsIllinois
Illinois
