Profile
Amy A. Hong is an associate in the Corporate & Securities Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Chicago office. She focuses her practice on corporate finance transactions, representing insurance companies and other institutional investors in U.S. and cross-border private placements of debt securities. Amy has also represented institutional investors in project financings, acquisition financings, and other types of secured and unsecured lending transactions. Outside of the United States, Amy’s recent experience includes transactions in England, Canada, Ireland, Iceland, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Australia.
Capabilities
Experience
- Acted as counsel to investors in the following private placement transactions:
- $925 million senior notes of a Florida gas distributor.
- $100 million and €400 million senior sustainability-linked notes of a Dutch dairy cooperative.
- $140 million and £175 million senior notes of a gas distributor in the United Kingdom.
- $233 million guaranteed senior secured notes of an Australian electricity transmission company.
- €365 million guaranteed senior secured notes of a Belgian airport company.
- $800 million aggregate amount of senior notes of a U.S. core real estate investment trust over two transactions.
- $430 million aggregate amount of senior notes of an open-ended core venture investing in real estate over two transactions.
- €250 million senior secured notes of a Finnish electricity distributor.
- $60 million senior notes of an Icelandic electricity transmission company.
- €175 million senior notes of an Icelandic airport company.
- $70 million senior notes of a Wisconsin electricity generation and sales company.
- $200 million first mortgage bonds of an Ohio electricity generator and distributor.
- Acted as counsel to investors in the $165 million acquisition financing of an Alaska transmission and distribution utility company.
- Acted as counsel to investors in the $43 million project financing of a Canadian data center.
- Acted as counsel to investors in the $118 million senior secured financing of a Texas co-generation plant.
- Acted as counsel to investors in the €40 million senior secured financing of a Norwegian hydropower plant company.
- Acted as counsel to investors in the SEK 835 million senior secured financing of a Swedish infrastructure investment company.
- Acted as counsel to investors in the $50 million acquisition financing of a special purpose entity (SPE) in connection with the lease of a cogeneration facility.
- Legal Extern, Office of General Counsel, University of Notre Dame, 2021
Credentials
Education
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J.D., magna cum laude, University of Notre Dame Law School
- Articles Editor, Notre Dame Law Review
- B.A., Johns Hopkins University
Admissions
- Illinois