Peter K. O'Brien

Equity/Hybrid:

• Underwriters counsel for Kansas-based electric utility in forward-equity issuance;
• Underwriters counsel for Minnesota-based electric utility holding company in forward-equity issuance;
• Company counsel for Missouri-based electric utility in dual issuance of mandatorily convertible securities and common stock;
• Company counsel and agents' counsel in establishment of periodic equity programs for multiple utility holding companies;
• Company counsel to financial institution in offerings of subordinated perpetual preferred stock and subordinated debt
• Remarketing agent's counsel in several remarketings of debt component of equity units product; and
• Underwriters' counsel in issuance of hybrid securities by multiple utility holding companies.

Debt:

• Initial purchaser counsel in inaugural debt issuance for US financing subsidiary of Australian infrastructure fund;
• Initial purchasers' counsel in two lease-structured debt issuances by Wisconsin-based owner of supercritical coal electric generating facility;
• Underwriters' counsel for New Mexico-based electric utility in establishment of first mortgage indenture and inaugural issuance of first mortgage bonds;
• Company counsel for Missouri electric utility in issuance of first mortgage bonds;
• Initial purchasers' counsel in the capital markets portion of the exit financing for a South Dakota-based electric and gas utility that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings;
• Purchasers' counsel in an institutional private placement of debt by an Indiana-based electric and gas utility holding company;
• Initial purchasers' counsel in inaugural 144A/Reg S debt issuance for a "merchant Genco"; and
• Initial purchasers' counsel in 144A debt issuance by privately held petroleum distribution company.

Private Activity Bonds:

• Underwriters' counsel in issuance by West Virginia Economic Development Authority Energy Revenue Bonds (Morgantown Energy Associates Project) Series 2011;
• Underwriter's counsel in issuance by The Delaware Economic Development Authority of its Exempt Facility Revenue Bonds (Indian River Power LLC Project) Series 2010;
• Conduit obligor's counsel in issuance by Mississippi Business Finance Corporation of its Gulf Opportunity Zone Industrial Development Revenue Bonds (SG Resources Mississippi LLC Project) Series 2010;
• Underwriter's counsel in issuance by West Virginia Economic Development Authority of its Solid Waste Disposal Facilities Revenue Refunding Bonds (Appalachian Power Company - Amos Project) Series 2010A; 
• Conduit obligor's counsel in issuance by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority of its Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (New York State Electric and Gas Corporation Project);
• Underwriter's counsel in issuance by Luzerne County industrial Development Authority (Pennsylvania) of its Water Facility Revenue Refunding Bonds (Pennsylvania American Water Company Water Facilities) Series 2009; and
• Underwriter's counsel in issuance by Reisel Industrial Development Corporation of its Solid Waste Disposal Revenue Bonds (Sandy Creek Energy Associates, L.P. Project) Series 2008.