
Nicholas Atwood
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Energy & Infrastructure Private Equity
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Solar
- Conventional Power
- Corporate & Finance
- Project Development
- Project Debt & Equity Finance
- Wind
- Significant experience representing clients on conventional power, renewable energy and infrastructure transactions.
- Advises on the development, financing, acquisition and sale of energy transition assets.
Nick provides comprehensive advice to strategic investors, commercial lenders, private equity sponsors, export credit agencies (ECAs) and other energy & infrastructure project participants. His experience spans conventional power, renewable energy, battery storage and other energy transition assets, both domestically and internationally.
With a global background and career, Nick has practiced in the United States and Asia and is fluent in Mandarin.
Prior to joining Akin, Nick practiced at another leading international law firm, where he focused on complex energy & infrastructure transactions.
- Advised Advanced Power US Holdings Inc. on a senior secured revolving letter of credit and loan facility supporting a portfolio of solar, battery storage and natural gas-fired power generating facilities totaling approximately 8,000 MW that are currently operating, under construction and in development in the United States.
- Advised Osaka Gas and its subsidiaries on partial refinancing and restructuring of existing project-level debt and additional mezzanine debt totaling approximately $370 million for a combined-cycle gas-fired power plant.
- Advised ECAs and commercial banks on a $3 billion financing for a gigafactory in the United States.
- Advised South Field Energy LLC as the borrower on a senior secured Term Loan B facility. The proceeds were used to refinance existing indebtedness for constructing an approximately 1,182 MW combined-cycle generating facility in Columbiana County, Ohio, owned by the company.
- Advised Sixth Street Partners, Tor Investment Management and Corbin Capital on a mezzanine financing for the $1.3 billion Trumbull natural gas-fired electric combined-cycle power plant in Ohio (named IJ Global’s North American Power Deal of the Year).
- Advised Elia Group SA/NV on its acquisition, through Elia Group’s wholly-owned subsidiary WindGrid USA LLC, of a 35.1% stake in energyRe Giga Projects, a subsidiary of energyRe LLC. The proceeds will be used to fund renewable U.S. transmission and energy generation projects.
- Advised a strategic investor in connection with a $400 million pre-NTP facility for development-stage projects, with a borrowing base comprised of various asset categories such as onshore generation, transmission assets and uncalled equity capital.
- Advised an Asian sponsor on a bridge facility and subsequent ECA financing for a cathode manufacturing plant in the United States.
EducationJ.D., Harvard Law School, 2011
B.A., Yale University, 2005
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2011
B.A., Yale University, 2005
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- “Gas Asset Finance & Investment 2025,” Infocast Projects & Money, New Orleans, LA, January 29, 2025.
- “Elective Pay & Tax Incentives for Eligible Entities 101: The What, When, and How,” Lawyers for Good Government webinar, August 9, 2023.