Sun & Co.

 

Richard A. Sun, CFA

Gladstone

Coal-Fired Power Plant 

Privatization and Project Financing
A$750 million

Australia

Queensland Government

 

 

· Led the team at UBS that represented the Queensland Government in its sale of the Gladstone power plant to CRA. 

· This was the first major project finance advisory assignment won by UBS in Australia and in Asia.

· The mandate was won in competition with several major investment and commercial banks.

Samalayuca

700 MW Power Plant

Build-Lease-Transfer
$715 million

Mexico

Transco Energy

 

I led the team that provided advice to a bidding group led by a subsidiary of Transco Energy (now American National Power).  The finance plan became the basis for Build-Lease-Transfer (BLT) projects in Mexico. American National Power engaged UBS for its next bid in Mexico.

Lake Superior Paper Industries

Paper Mill

Project Lease

$382 million

Minnesota
Pentair and Minnesota Power

 

 

 

· This was the first industrial project to use leveraged lease equity as project equity.

· Lease debt and equity investors took real project risk--there were no contracts from paper purchasers and only limited cash deficiency agreements from the sponsors.

· The lease and its front-ended lease payment added 20% to net income of one of the sponsors in the early years of the lease.

First Brands

Glad Bag Plants

LBO Refinancing

$146 million

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

· This was the first large lease financing for a recent leveraged buy out.

· Unlike most large leases, which were leveraged, these leases were executed as single investor leases to reduce the complexity of the transaction.

· The lease structure substantially reduced the debt service of the company and the financial risk to the equity.

· The rent structure added $40 million (about 10%) to the market value of the First Brands when it was brought public.

Corpus Christi Refinery

West Plant Expansion
Leveraged Lease

$306 million

Texas

Union Pacific

 

 

This leveraged lease financing:

· Was the largest ever at the time it closed.

· Was executed at an after-tax yield 600 basis points lower than the immediately preceding investment grade lease.

· Was closed within 21 days of entering the market when leases of its type were expected to take six months to close.

Beneficial

Lease Portfolio Sale

$414 million

· The largest leveraged leasing portfolio sale executed as a single transaction.

· Proceeds to the buyer were more than doubled by changing the tax structure of the transaction.