CAC Specialty

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About CAC Specialty

CAC Specialty is a leading specialty insurance broker and advisor that provides expertise and placement capabilities across the spectrum of insurance and capital markets. Part of CAC Group, the company delivers customized solutions for a wide range of risks, serving both large corporations and small-to-medium enterprises. As an employee-controlled company, it houses top industry talent dedicated to meeting clients’ comprehensive risk management needs and ranked in the top 40 of all U.S. brokerage firms. For more information, please visit us at www.cacgroup.com

About CAC Specialty’s Tax Practice

CAC Specialty’s Tax Insurance Practice comprised of seasoned tax attorneys and former tax insurance underwriters, combines deep tax technical expertise, industry experience, and business acumen to craft innovative and unique tax insurance solutions so any client can quickly transfer the risk of the unanticipated and detrimental consequences of a successful challenge by a taxing authority—creating more certainty for sponsors, corporations, and stakeholders.

For more information, please visit us at www.cacgroup.com/tax

CRC-IB

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CRC-IB is a full-service investment bank providing industry-leading financial services across the energy transition spectrum. We leverage our capital markets and sector technology expertise to provide innovative project finance, capital raising, and M&A solutions, optimizing client outcomes in an ever-shifting sustainable energy landscape. Our belief since inception is that every transaction is a catalyst for change, every closing a step towards a cleaner future. To date, we have executed 290 project and corporate transactions for sustainable energy assets, valued at $52 billion in total.

Foley & Lardner LLP

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Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the evolving demands facing its clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia, Foley approaches client service by understanding client priorities, objectives, and challenges. Foley’s Energy Industry Team helps clients address business and legal concerns to keep traditional and renewable source projects on track — from due diligence, negotiation, and regulatory approval through closing. We have a long history of successfully managing renewable and alternative energy projects and financings involving fuel sources such as onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, ethanol and biodiesel. Foley also has an accomplished history in addressing the litigation and transactional needs of clients in the oil and gas sector, including independents, public companies and individual mineral owners. We counsel clients on issues concerning leasehold operations, royalty and title disputes, farmouts, right-of-ways and gas purchase agreements. (www.foley.com/energy/)

A&O Shearman

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A&O Shearman transforms the way law is practiced, to deliver unparalleled results for our clients’ most complex matters – everywhere in the world. We’re a law firm at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business.

With over 320 global energy and infrastructure lawyers, including more than 60 attorneys in the Americas, we offer a deep and well-resourced team across practices and industries. The result is more relevant and focused advice, delivered quickly to ensure our clients’ investment objectives and that we add value from day one.

Akin

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Akin is a leading global law firm providing innovative legal services and business solutions to individuals and institutions. Our Chambers-ranked projects & energy transition practice is a market leader in renewable energy. For more than 75 years, Akin has been at the forefront of some of the energy industry’s most transformational transactions. Today, we work with clients as they seek to decarbonize and invest in the energy transition. We are on the cutting edge of new technologies, transactions, and structures in the energy sector. Our full-service, cross-disciplinary team advises clients on some of the most complex, challenging, and innovative projects

We represent the full spectrum of sector participants in the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and companies. The Akin team provides integrated, seamless support on every aspect of renewable energy and energy transition transactions including regulatory guidance, navigating intricate tax credits and new investment opportunities driven by the Inflation Reduction Act. We have industry-leading experience with solar, wind, battery storage, and all of the key sustainable technologies powering the transition.

Atlantic Global Risk

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As one of the largest independent transactional insurance broker firms in North America, and the only one with robust capabilities across tax, credit, M&A, environmental, and contingent risk, Atlantic provides bespoke solutions and risk advisory services to many of the world’s leading financial sponsors, investors, strategic acquirers, investment banks, commercial banks, law firms, and advisors. Atlantic has offices throughout the U.S. and Canada and supports transactions globally through its proprietary network of leading strategic partners. Our team works across a variety of transaction structures including partnership flips, inverted lease passthroughs, sale leasebacks, and other bespoke investment structures covering a vast array of technology applications, including but not limited to solar, storage, wind, RNG, carbon capture and sequestration, and clean hydrogen, with each engagement being specially tailored to strategically maximize value and mitigate execution risk. Atlantic has a reputation for thoughtful advice, firm advocacy, and delivering unparalleled execution.

Baker Botts

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Baker Botts is a globally respected law firm with 725 lawyers and 14 international offices. We are driven by the highest ethical and professional standards. This professionalism, combined with industry knowledge and insights and our understanding of the law, helps us to deliver effective, innovative solutions for our clients.

For more than 175 years, Baker Botts has delivered results-oriented services, establishing us as a leading law firm. Our reputation is complemented by our leadership in government, the judiciary and our communities. Regardless of size, sector or jurisdiction of a client, our commitment is to help achieve their business objectives.

Bracewell (CCS)

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Firm of Choice for CCUS Projects and Transactions

Bracewell is at the vanguard of policy, regulatory and other legal developments related to carbon capture, utilization and storage projects and transactions. With one of the world’s largest cross-disciplinary energy teams, we have an unparalleled understanding of the vast business issues facing emitters, developers of carbon capture facilities, CO2 pipeline companies, CO2 storage providers, oil and gas companies utilizing CO2 for enhanced oil and gas recovery and tax equity investors.

We represent stakeholders in the manufacturing, power, chemical, biofuels and oil and gas industries in their efforts to transition to less carbon-intensive operations.

Our CCUS-related experience includes:

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Davies

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What we do.
Davies has turned public affairs into an art. We provide thoughtful strategies, compelling messages and precise tactical execution to overcome controversy and crisis.

We have distinguished ourselves with a nearly flawless record of helping our clients win their most challenging battles, successfully reorienting hundreds of issues that seemed lost or burdened by insurmountable odds.

Davies provides issues management, public affairs, and crisis communication support. We specialize in message creation and grassroots programs that motivate individuals to speak out and take action – influencing regulatory, permitting and political challenges.

Who we are.
Davies is the national public affairs firm of choice for clients who need to win high-stakes, defining issues. Our nearly flawless record for project approvals over 30 years speaks for itself — if you want to win, hire Davies.

You may be facing loud mobilized opposition to your plans, as well as hostile elected officials. We overcome these opposing forces by identifying and activating a motivated and educated crowd in favor of your plans, redefining the issue and moving public opinion.

How we think.
At Davies we are on a continuous quest for the best techniques and approaches, from time-tested to novel and emerging. Over the years we’ve developed unique skill-sets and created proprietary tools to aid us in helping our clients win their battles.

We are not planning on giving you the exact recipe for our success, but we’ll be glad to share with you some of our thinking.

Empact Technologies

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Empact Technologies is a leading clean energy IRA compliance management platform. Our software and services enable utility and community-scale project developers and investors to ensure their projects are fully compliant with Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship (PWA), Domestic Content, Energy Community, and Low-Income Community requirements.

Developers and investors of solar, energy storage, wind, carbon capture and sequestration, and other clean energy project technologies use Empact to maximize IRA tax credit qualification and mitigate IRS recapture audit non-compliance risk.

Empact supports clients across the tax credit value chain including project developers, EPCs and contractors, equipment suppliers, tax credit investors, and insurance firms. We ensure IRA compliance through the tax credit lifecycle from project development, pre-construction, financing, construction, and COD, to tax credit transactions and asset management phases.

Foss & Company, Inc.

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Founded in 1983, Foss & Company is a national tax equity investor and fund sponsor that has deployed nearly $8 billion in tax equity on behalf of insurance, banking, and other large corporate clients into tax credit enhanced transactions including historic rehabilitation projects, renewable energy and advanced energy production facilities. Foss & Company is a full-service advisor with proven expertise navigating the world of tax equity investments. For additional information, visit www.fossandco.com.

Kirkland & Ellis

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Kirkland & Ellis is an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other corporate transactions, litigation, white collar and government disputes, restructurings and intellectual property matters. Kirkland offers the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to their clients and help their businesses succeed. They invest in the brightest legal talent and build dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their respective areas. Kirkland believes in empowering their lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to bring their best to every engagement. These principles have guided the firm in building successful long-term partnerships with clients since its founding in 1909.

Linklaters

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Linklaters is a leading law firm globally in renewables and energy transition. Our Energy and Infrastructure practice advises on complex, bespoke and often multi-jurisdictional transactions covering all aspects of the value chain, allowing us to anticipate and identify issues that may arise during the course of any project. With a proven track record in leading the energy transition globally and our extensive knowledge of the U.S. market, we present a one-of-its-kind offering of legal services for sponsors, developers, investors and lenders in the U.S. renewable and energy transition industry.

We are at the forefront of the renewables sector, acting on some of the largest transactions in 2022 and 2023 globally. This strength is evidenced by our 2023 Band 1 Chambers Global: Multi-Jurisdictional Projects & Energy ranking, recognition at the PFI and IJ Global awards and as a leading firm in IJ Global’s renewables league tables for 2023.

Lockton Companies

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Lockton is a global insurance brokerage that helps clients mitigate risk through strategic advisory and partnership. What makes Lockton stand apart is also what makes us better: independence. Lockton’s private ownership empowers its 9,500+ Associates doing business in over 135 countries to focus solely on clients’ risk, insurance and people needs. With expertise that reaches around the globe, Lockton delivers the deep understanding needed to accomplish remarkable results.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

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Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm and powerhouse in the project finance market. Its projects group did $211 billion in 448 significant transactions in the last five years. It works in some capacity for most of the major developers who are active in the US market. It is also a prominent thought leader. Its Project Finance NewsWire goes to more than 81,000 people. Issues back 27 years can be found on the firm’s website. Its Currents podcast has had more than 3.2 million downloads in five years. Its periodic live podcasts on topical subjects draw 2,000 to 6,000 people for the live sessions and thousands of downloads for the recordings.

Wilson Sonsini

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Wilson Sonsini is the firm of choice for companies, investors, and lenders seeking to structure, negotiate, and close groundbreaking transactions in the new energy economy and emerging climate solutions sector. As the newest, nimblest, and most focused projects law practice in the United States, we dedicate ourselves to a single goal: advancing what’s next in the energy industry and decarbonization technologies across economic sectors. Unlike other major law firms, our mission and resources are focused on advancing solutions to build the clean energy economy and address climate change, not fighting against the reality that all major economic sectors need to evolve, decarbonize, and be more efficient. We recognize the imperative—and the opportunities—presented by climate change and want to assist the innovators that will make a decarbonized future cheaper, more transparent, more equitable, and easier to use.

WTW

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WTW is one of the largest and most experienced global insurance brokerages in the world, with more than 45,000 employees and roots dating back to 1828. Our depth allows us to employ subject matter experts in all relevant practices (i.e., tax, property and casualty, captives, surety) to ensure that you will receive a comprehensive suite of protection for your renewable energy projects. Our history offers assurance that we will be there for you when it matters most. WTW’s Tax Insurance Team has extensive experience at the IRS (auditing and examining tax credits, partnership and corporate tax issues), and at a renewable developer purchasing tax insurance, preparing audit defense strategies, and simultaneously defending an audit with the IRS within an insurance claim process. Our unique and multi-faceted expertise allows us to effectively guide our clients from placement through the claim process while simultaneously providing insights that can strengthen your company strategy. Additionally, WTW’s broader renewable energy team, including property and casualty, surety and captives (among others), brings decades of experience and includes former energy underwriters, engineers and industry veterans.

Locke Lord LLP

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Locke Lord has one of the leading national practices representing developers, investors and ‎lenders in the development, sale, purchase, financing and operation of renewable energy ‎projects of all types across North America.‎

Our long history in the renewables industry dates back to the early 2000s when we founded the ‎Renewable Energy Coalition and led the effort to deregulate Texas’ energy markets. Since then, ‎our practice has expanded to cover the full spectrum of legal issues faced by renewable energy ‎projects across the nation.‎

The combination of this deep experience in development and commercial issues, our finance and M&A expertise, and our national footprint places us in a unique position to provide efficient, ‎comprehensive and cost-effective representation on the full life-cycle of our clients’ projects, ‎from principal construction, supply and revenue contracts to permitting, real estate and ‎regulatory issues, from acquisition and debt and equity financing transactions to construction ‎and commercial litigation.

Elohi

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Elohi, a Cherokee Measurement & Control (CM&C) subsidiary, provides tailored analytical and measurement solutions for the Sustainable Energy markets. Backed by CM&C’s 20+ years of experience, we help navigate the complexities of decarbonization projects, avoiding operational inefficiencies, time wastage, and compliance risks.

We ensure our clients’ projects operate efficiently and sustainably through our three-step approach: engineering, seamless integration, and ongoing maintenance. With custom solutions, analytical expertise, comprehensive project management, and a large local inventory of key instrumentation, Elohi delivers unmatched reliability and performance.

Founded in 2023, Elohi embodies the Cherokee word for “EARTH,” reflecting our commitment to reducing carbon impact and supporting sustainable energy initiatives. Our core values—quality, teamwork, integrity, and pride—drive us to excel in every project, helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals.

Futurepast

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At Futurepast, “We count carbon.®” Our consultants help organizations mitigate the impacts of climate change and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. We help organizations quantify greenhouse gas emissions and green their supply chains. As a third-party validation/verification body, Futurepast provides opinions that attest to the accuracy of claims made in sustainability reports and by greenhouse gas project developers seeking the issuance of carbon credits. Futurepast also verifies statements of organizations disclosing their greenhouse gas emissions and their strategies for reducing their climate change impacts. We work in all greenhouse gas project scopes including carbon capture and storage.

Latham & Watkins

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Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, Latham lawyers advise leading multinationals, boundary-pushing start-ups, and the investors and financial institutions that fuel them. The firm helps clients navigate market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.

Global CCS Institute

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REAL Renewable Energy Alliance Houston

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