Kirkland & Ellis counseled Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (Brookfield), on its agreement with Dominion Energy, Inc. (NYSE: D) to transfer a 25 percent equity interest in Cove Point to Brookfield in exchange for cash consideration of just over $2 billion, excluding working capital. The announcement is part of Dominion Energy's previously communicated intention to establish a permanent capital structure for Cove Point.

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The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Doug Bacon and Allan Kirk, debt finance partners Roald Nashi and Rustin Brown, and transactional associates Joshua Abbotoy and Bryan Jones; and included energy & infrastructure partners Brian Greene and Brooksany Barrowes, and of counsel Nic Gladd; tax partner David Wheat; and environmental partner Alexandra Farmer and associate Devi Chandrasekaran.