Peter A. Fozzard

Peter A. Fozzard

Senior Counsel
Atlanta, United States
+1 404 853 8330

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Peter works with both borrowers and lenders across the country

He helps clients finance utility, telecommunications, agribusiness, transportation, infrastructure, and other corporate operating and liquidity needs.

Peter's finance background includes senior, second lien and subordinated commercial financings; private placements and other taxable long-term debt issuances; government-guaranteed financings; project financing; public, pollution control and industrial revenue bond issuances; structured financings of inventories; commercial paper offerings; secured and unsecured corporate indenture offerings; lines of credit; and letter of credit transactions.

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  • Represented several public and private business development companies in connection with their primary syndicated revolving credit facilities.
  • Represented originator and servicer in connection with $150 million receivables purchase agreement.
  • Represented corporate borrower in $200 million, syndicated, secured, multi-currency revolving credit facility.
  • Represented provider of equipment financing in connection with $50 million, syndicated, revolving, asset-based loan with a private credit administrative agent and with secured and unsecured mezzanine facilities.
  • Represented Heritage Life Insurance Company in the closings of two secured margin loan revolving facilities totaling $500,000,000 in aggregate commitments.
  • Advised a large renewable energy developer, owner and operator in connection with the sale of operational utility-scale wind facility in California and operational utility-scale solar facility in Texas.
  • Negotiated and developed documentation for a small-scale crude oil prepayment arrangement to serve as an alternative to reserve base lending for a crude oil developer in the Bakken area of North Dakota.
  • Advised in the sale of a majority equity interest in Element Markets, LLC to TPG’s The Rise Fund.
  • Helped a Georgia-based urban greenhouse establish corporate form and obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS for its parent company.
  • Represented Western Farmers Electric Cooperative in secured term loan to prepay specified loans from Federal Financing Bank.
  • Represented Western Farmers Electric Cooperative in negotiating and structuring acquisition of 50-MW gas-fired power plant.
  • Represented Georgia natural gas marketer in $80 million secured revolving loan with a syndicate of lenders.
  • Represented an electric generation and transmission cooperative with more than $3 billion of assets in the issuance of secured new clean renewable energy bonds worth $18 million with the proceeds to be used for a community solar project.
  • Represented GridLiance in the acquisition of Valley Electric Transmission Association high voltage transmission system, which includes 160 miles of 230-kV transmission lines and related substation equipment.
  • Represented Associated Electric Cooperative in the negotiation and closing of a Federal Financing Bank loan guaranteed by the Rural Utilities Service in the principal amount of $192 million.
  • Represented Associated Electric Cooperative in the negotiation and closing of three private placement transactions with certain institutional investors in the aggregate amount of $200 million.
  • Represented an electric generation and transmission cooperative with more than $3 billion of assets in multiple secured term loans with the Federal Financing Bank, guaranteed by the Rural Utilities Service, totaling $444 million.
  • Represented Goldman Sachs in the $1.5 billion private placement for one of the country's largest electric generation and transmission cooperatives.
  • Represented Toyota Motor Credit Corporation in its $15B multicurrency syndicated master credit facilities and approximately $7B in bilateral lines of credit and medium term facilities.
  • Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of energy (2011-2024) and banking and finance (2024-2025) and energy and natural resources (2025)
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the areas of commercial lending: advice to borrowers (2025); commercial lending: advice to bank lenders (2025); commercial lending: advice to borrowers and lenders (2023-2024) and energy transactions: electric power (2025)
  • Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of project finance law (2023)
  • Named to  Best Lawyers in the area of banking and finance law (2019-2026), project finance law (2007-2026) and utilities law (2015-2021)
  • Recognized as a stand-out lawyer by Acritas Stars: Independently Rated Lawyers (2018-2020)
  • Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® (2012) and also recognized in the areas of banking (2007, 2011) and energy and natural resources (2007)
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, State Bar of Georgia
  • Member, Atlanta Bar Association
  • Member, Leadership Georgia
  • Member, Leadership Atlanta
  • Georgia
Honorable William C. O'Kelley, U.S. District Court - Northern District of Georgia.
  • J.D., Columbia Law School,

    Editor, Columbia Law Review

  • A.B., magna cum laude, Duke University

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Peter Fozzard

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