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5.12.25
Firm Advises Redaptive on Corporate Aspects of $650 Million Credit Facility
On May 8, 2025, Redaptive, a leading Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) provider, announced the successful closing of a $650 million credit facility from CDPQ, a global investment group, and Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA. This facility strengthens Redaptive's ability to scale its innovative platform, meet accelerating customer demand, and deliver measurable business value through energy efficiency, renewable generation, and data-driven building performance. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Redaptive in connection with corporate aspects of the transaction.
Redaptive will leverage this capital to continue its support of enterprise customers with data-driven efficiency and energy generation programs, including HVAC, LED lighting, solar, storage and metering solutions, and other upgrades that can be deployed at large-scale multi-site portfolios. This additional financing will enable Redaptive to expand its reach, increase project deployments, and further develop its solutions across the U.S., Canada, and certain European jurisdictions.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Redaptive included Bob O’Connor, Melissa Rick, Jocqui Kaup, Viet Nguyen, Jill Fulwiler, Michelle Mealer, and Karen Becker.
For more information, please see Redaptive’s news release.
Redaptive will leverage this capital to continue its support of enterprise customers with data-driven efficiency and energy generation programs, including HVAC, LED lighting, solar, storage and metering solutions, and other upgrades that can be deployed at large-scale multi-site portfolios. This additional financing will enable Redaptive to expand its reach, increase project deployments, and further develop its solutions across the U.S., Canada, and certain European jurisdictions.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Redaptive included Bob O’Connor, Melissa Rick, Jocqui Kaup, Viet Nguyen, Jill Fulwiler, Michelle Mealer, and Karen Becker.
For more information, please see Redaptive’s news release.
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10.29.24
Wilson Sonsini Advises Redaptive on $100 Million Equity Investment
On October 22, 2024, Redaptive, a leading Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) provider, announced it has secured an additional $100 million equity investment from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). This strategic capital infusion will support Redaptive to accelerate its growth in projects and enhance its service offering to better serve its rapidly growing customer base and ecosystem of energy performance developers and contractors in their growing demand for decarbonization and drive significant progress toward their net-zero goals. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Redaptive on the transaction.
Redaptive partners with major corporations to support their net zero goals through fully-funded, end-to-end energy-saving and renewable upgrades. The company's proprietary technology solutions are utilized at over 40 Fortune 500 companies.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Redaptive on the transaction includes Bob O’Connor, Melissa Rick, Jocqui Kaup, Viet Nguyen, Michelle Mealer, Kimberley Biagioli, and Jill Fulwiler.
Redaptive partners with major corporations to support their net zero goals through fully-funded, end-to-end energy-saving and renewable upgrades. The company's proprietary technology solutions are utilized at over 40 Fortune 500 companies.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Redaptive on the transaction includes Bob O’Connor, Melissa Rick, Jocqui Kaup, Viet Nguyen, Michelle Mealer, Kimberley Biagioli, and Jill Fulwiler.
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6.04.24
Firm Advises Meati on $100 Million Series C1 Funding
On May 8, 2024, Meati Foods, a producer of animal-free meats crafted from the company’s unique, whole-food MushroomRoot,™ announced that it has secured $100 million in Series C1 funding, bringing its total raised to $365 million since its founding seven years ago. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Meati on the transaction.
The latest round of funding—the largest investment in an alternative protein company since Meati’s own $150 million Series C fundraise in 2022—was led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech, and included returning investors Prelude Ventures, Bond, Revolution Growth, and Congruent. The injection of capital was accompanied by the appointment of Grosvenor Food & AgTech’s Katrin Burt and Prelude Ventures’ Mark Cupta to Meati’s board.
The Wilson Sonsini team advising Meati on the transaction included:
Corporate
Bob O’Connor
Mike Pestana
Viet Nguyen
Michelle Mealer
Janine Swanson
Nathaniel Siegel
The latest round of funding—the largest investment in an alternative protein company since Meati’s own $150 million Series C fundraise in 2022—was led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech, and included returning investors Prelude Ventures, Bond, Revolution Growth, and Congruent. The injection of capital was accompanied by the appointment of Grosvenor Food & AgTech’s Katrin Burt and Prelude Ventures’ Mark Cupta to Meati’s board.
The Wilson Sonsini team advising Meati on the transaction included:
Corporate
Bob O’Connor
Mike Pestana
Viet Nguyen
Michelle Mealer
Janine Swanson
Nathaniel Siegel
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9.26.23
Wilson Sonsini Advises Arbor Energy on $9 Million Seed Round
On September 7, 2023, digital energy company Arbor Energy announced it has raised a $9 million seed round led by First Round Capital, with participation from Obvious Ventures, Spring Tide, and strategic angels such as Jon Stein (Co-Founder of Betterment), JD Ross (Co-Founder of Opendoor), Patrick Maloney (Founder of Inspire and Clean Industry Ventures), and Kiran Bhatraju (Co-Founder and CEO of Arcadia), among others. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati advised Arbor on the transaction.
Arbor is the first robo-advisor for energy, saving people an estimated $500 in the first year by monitoring how much they pay for energy and helping them automatically switch to a cheaper rate with the same utility. Today, Arbor is available to homeowners and renters across 50 million households in deregulated energy markets, which includes most of the Northeast, Midwest, and Texas. Arbor founder and CEO Andrew Meyer says that the energy robo-adviser is only the first product and that Arbor plans to develop more tools around energy and data.
Arbor is the first robo-advisor for energy, saving people an estimated $500 in the first year by monitoring how much they pay for energy and helping them automatically switch to a cheaper rate with the same utility. Today, Arbor is available to homeowners and renters across 50 million households in deregulated energy markets, which includes most of the Northeast, Midwest, and Texas. Arbor founder and CEO Andrew Meyer says that the energy robo-adviser is only the first product and that Arbor plans to develop more tools around energy and data.
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2.13.23
Wilson Sonsini Advises Urgent.ly on Merger with Otonomo Technologies
Urgent.ly, Inc. (Urgently), a U.S.-based leading provider of digital roadside and mobility assistance technology and services, and Otonomo Technologies Ltd., the platform powering the mobility economy, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction.
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12.20.22
Firm Advises Redaptive on $200 Million Investment from CPPIB
On December 19, 2022, energy-as-a-service provider Redaptive announced that it received a $200 million investment from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Some of the company’s existing investors, including Linse Capital and CBRE, will also participate in the investment. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Redaptive on the transaction.
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11.22.22
Firm Advises Swell Energy on $120 Million Fundraise
On November 22, 2022, energy management and smart grid solutions provider Swell Energy announced that it had raised $120 million to support its mission of developing 600 MWh of virtual power plants (VPP). SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Greenbacker Development Opportunities Fund I, LP led the fundraise along with Ares Infrastructure Opportunities fund and Ontario Power Generation Pension Fund. Wilson Sonsini Rosati and Goodrich advised Swell.