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

Crux Climate

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Crux is the capital markets technology company changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the US. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers raise capital through all stages of project development and operation. The company’s first offering is the leading platform for tax credit transfers. Since its launch in 2023, Crux has raised more than $27 million in funding from venture capital and strategic investors. Crux’s world-class team brings together expertise from energy, tax, finance, government, and technology to power an abundant, resilient, and secure energy future.

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.

Acadia Infrastructure Capital

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Serving our mission to advance reliable clean energy in the United States, Acadia Infrastructure Capital pairs equity capital with corporate tax capital, offering developers a competitive alternative to traditional tax equity and providing corporations with streamlined access to new renewable energy tax credits through projects with community benefits.

Our approach goes beyond traditional investment methods, emphasizing bespoke product structuring to ensure adaptability in an ever-evolving energy market.

We seek to provide value-added structures, including by:

• Strategic structuring for revenue optimization,
• Taking carefully selected development risks, or
• Integrating technologies that increase the reliability of clean energy.

We work with a smaller number of larger capital pools who often prefer more direct investment opportunities, transparency, and control than what a blind pool fund offers. Scale-wise, these programs usually fall within $100m – 400m total targeted capital deployment per unique investment partner.

For tax credits, we originate opportunities, screen for quality, and perform the structuring, underwriting and transaction negotiation necessary to facilitate a clean tax credit transfer for a corporate buyer. Acadia can implement preferences around technology, community benefits, credit size, and REC procurement, balancing those factors with credit pricing.

Atheva

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Atheva is the leading partner for clean energy tax transferability. Buyers can reduce tax liabilities while supporting the finance of clean energy projects for sellers. Our managed marketplace and personalized approach allow us to deliver the best match for companies based on their specific needs. We provide an easy, streamlined process from match to close. At Atheva, our focus goes beyond a single transaction; it’s about being a reliable partner to support ongoing project financing. For more information, visit atheva.com

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.

Bildmore Clean Energy

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Bildmore is an EnCap Energy Transition Fund (EETF) backed investment platform focused on passive minority equity positions in battery storage, solar, and other energy transition projects that cannot attract traditional renewable “tax equity” financing. The company expects to make 8-10 minority investments annually, focused on utility-scale and DG projects and Sponsors that cannot meet the requirements for tax equity but want to improve their economics beyond only transferring tax credits at a discount. Bildmore’s team is led by energy veteran David Haug, who has three decades of working relationships with the principals at EETF. Together they bring decades of power and energy project experience from a developer’s perspective, the key to fast transaction approval and funding.      

Birch Risk Advisors

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Birch Risk Advisors is a strategic partner to taxpayers and renewable energy market participants, providing sophisticated structuring, tax insurance and tax credit transfer solutions. Our team of experienced attorneys, investment bankers and renewable energy executives leverage decades of deal advisory and cross-disciplinary expertise in serving global investment funds, multi-national corporations, and producers of clean power generation. For more information, please visit https://birchrisk.com.

CapeZero

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CapeZero is a software-as-a-service company providing financial technology solutions to counterparties evaluating investment, financing, and sale options for clean energy projects. Almost every renewable energy project benefits from receiving a “structured tax credit investment” (i.e. tax equity, transferability, and direct pay). CapeZero’s modeling and deal analysis software provides developers, investors, and advisors with a platform to efficiently navigate structured tax credit investments. CapeZero enables stakeholders to make real-time, profit-optimizing decisions and build a clean energy future together.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

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Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is an elite global law firm with world-class practices across the board. Industry-leading companies and global financial institutions know they can rely on us for their most challenging legal and business matters. The firm’s top-flight capabilities are grounded in a distinguished history of 170 years, and our global, forward-looking focus is supported by offices strategically located in the world’s key financial centers and political capitals. More than 1,000 lawyers collaborate seamlessly across practice groups and geographies to provide clients with exceptional service, sophisticated advice and creative, practical solutions. Visit davispolk.com

DLA Piper, LLP

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In a world where the demands for energy are growing exponentially, those operating in the energy sector are looking to their lawyers to provide more than legal skill; they are also seeking in-depth sector know-how and innovative solutions to the challenges they face. DLA Piper's energy lawyers deliver to our clients the focused, innovative sector advice they need, wherever in the world they need it.

Our energy clients receive coordinated, across-the-board coverage for their needs, including construction and projects, corporate, competition, regulatory, contractual, trading, litigation/arbitration, dispute resolution and tax issues. We understand the technical, geographical, commercial and geopolitical factors that shape the industry and have first-hand access to contacts, sponsors and decision makers worldwide.

DLA Piper's energy team includes experts in the detailed, multi-layered and often complex regulatory frameworks that apply to energy sector projects and activities. We advise regulators, the regulated, investors and other industry participants on the implications of the regulatory framework during the planning, development and operational stages of many energy projects and
activities.

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.

Euclid Transactional

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Euclid Transactional is a market-leading firm specializing in transactional insurance underwriting and claims handling. The firm provides underwriting services for representations and warranties, tax, contingent liability, and other transactional insurance products. We seek to provide best-in-class service for clients, lawyers, and brokers on deal time and with the commercial priorities of our partners in mind.

Euclid Transactional has underwritten over 5,000 policies and insured more than $4.0 trillion in total deal volume — among the most in the industry.

Our claims team — the industry’s largest dedicated team — leverages deep experience on both the underwriting and claims side to drive fair resolutions. Backed by the financial security of our highly-rated insurance carrier partners, we have made over $523 million in claims payments.

With offices New York, London, Toronto, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Chicago, we cover the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with leadership by industry veterans.

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.

Greenberg Traurig

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Greenberg Traurig is a global law firm with more than 2,750 attorneys in 48 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Our dynamic Renewable Energy team is vertically integrated to cover all aspects of the life of a project from development through construction, to financing and M&A, with in-depth understanding of the ever-evolving regulatory framework. Our senior attorneys have been leaders in the industry for more than 25 years and have handled some of the world’s largest and first-of-their-kind energy projects. We routinely advise project sponsors and developers, tax equity and cash equity investors, banks, and institutional investors, lenders, insurance companies, equipment manufacturers, energy companies, utilities, and other energy industry participants on traditional and pioneering innovative structures with unparalleled experience and commitment.

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.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

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McDermott Will & Emery propels the success of the world’s most respected, dynamic and important organizations. Together, we fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. As a business operating in the highly specialized energy sector, you encounter unique legal challenges that require a practical and complete understanding of your industry. Our dedicated, full-service global energy team uses broad market knowledge to deliver coordinated counsel around the world, focusing on your particular transactional and regulatory needs in service of your business objectives. To help you resolve complex issues, comply with new regulations and stay a step ahead of the competition, we monitor both macro trends and local issues within the industry. With a track record of success and decades of experience in domestic markets, cross-border representations and coordinating work in foreign jurisdictions, we are well positioned to provide you with comprehensive advice in any area of energy law.

McGuireWoods LLP

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McGuireWoods’ cross-discipline, cross-practice energy industry team brings together legal, policy, energy technology and business experience to meet the challenges our clients face. Our energy industry experience has been recognized for the depth of our bench (more than 100 interdisciplinary lawyers) and the extent of our experience. We have been serving some of our energy clients for nearly 50 years.

We advance our renewable energy clients’ interests by getting deals done, by helping clients successfully and creatively navigate the complexities and pitfalls in this dynamically evolving industry and by maximizing the value of various tax, energy, environmental rules, markets and governmental incentives available to the renewable energy industry.

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.

Stonehenge Capital

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Stonehenge is a nationally recognized marketplace leader in federal and state historic tax equity with 25 years of experience providing creative capital solutions to sponsors, developers and institutional investors. With fresh thinking that leads to better results, Stonehenge is not the same old style of investment firm, but something else entirely. Some call it transformational capital. We call it the right way to do business.

Weil

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Weil’s cross-disciplinary Energy practice combines our deep industry knowledge with market-leading legal expertise to deliver innovative strategies that address the unique challenges and opportunities facing private and public investors, energy companies, private equity sponsors, project sponsors, lenders, and technology suppliers operating in oil and gas, power and renewables, and the rapidly evolving energy transition spaces. We have been involved in many of the significant M&A deals, restructurings, financing transactions and complex disputes that have helped shape the industry in recent years. We are engaged in cutting-edge matters for all constituents in the industry involving nearly every legal discipline and every office at the Firm.

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.

Concentro

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Concentro is a platform unlocking tax credit transfers for clean energy projects, with a focus on DG/C&I assets. Through a differentiated, hands-on approach, we make clean energy transfers accessible and effortless for our clients, while also improving economics. We give access to buyers, provide full-wrap insurance, execute the diligence, bundle projects to get economies of scale and take care of the entire transaction process.

Similarly, we enable corporations to buy fully-vetted and fully-insured tax credits from clean energy developers, through a seamless and fully taken care of process. We have closed multiple transactions already, with buyers ranging from Fortune 100s, to Multinational Corporations, to PE-backed “Mid-caps” and have over $500M of tax credits available on our platform.

Monarch Private Capital

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Monarch Private Capital manages tax equity impact funds that positively impact communities by creating clean power, jobs and homes. The funds provide predictable returns through the generation of federal and state tax credits. The Company offers innovative tax credit equity investments for renewable energy, affordable housing, historic rehabilitations, film and other qualified projects. Monarch Private Capital has long-term relationships with institutional and individual investors, developers and lenders that participate in these types of federal and state programs. Headquartered in Atlanta, Monarch has offices and professionals located throughout the U.S.

Reunion

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Reunion’s mission is to accelerate investment into clean energy.

The Inflation Reduction Act has created a simpler way to finance renewable energy projects through the sale of tax credits. Reunion’s marketplace facilitates the purchase and sale of transferable tax credits to support solar, wind, battery, biogas and other clean energy projects.

Reunion works with leading clean energy project developers to easily sell tax credits to a deep pool of buyers. Corporations buy tax credits on the Reunion platform to support clean energy, while generating a compelling financial return. Through standardized due diligence, diversification, and insurance, we ensure that it’s easy and low-risk for corporations to purchase tax credits.

Reunion raised corporate funding from leading renewable energy investors in 2022, and our founding team previously raised over $2B to finance solar energy projects around the world.

Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB)

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Santander Corporate & Investment Banking is a Santander global division that supports corporate and institutional clients, offering tailored services and value-added wholesale products while adhering to responsible banking standards that contribute to the progress of society. We are committed to fulfilling our clients’ needs, surpassing their expectations and helping them to achieve their goals. For that reason, we invest heavily in developing tailor-made solutions and in providing local expertise, fully integrated coverage and cross-border capabilities.

Clean Energy Counsel

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Clean Energy Counsel is a mission-driven law firm of specialized attorneys who offer
industry-focused knowledge and experience in all types of sustainable energy projects. The
firm offers a full range of legal services to support clean energy projects at every phase in
their life cycle—through development, construction, financing, and ongoing operations.
CEC’s growing tax equity and tax credit practice represents both developers looking to
monetize tax credits as well as tax equity investors and buyers of ITCs, PTCs, EV charging
station credits and a whole range of new clean energy tax credits. Clients seek out the firm
for its clear-eyed focus on market terms paired with practical tax advice and opinions that
keep commercial outcomes in mind. The CEC team gets deals closed and projects built,
because they believe their clients’ success changes the world’s trajectory for the better.
Advancing clean energy isn’t just a job at Clean Energy Counsel; it’s hope for the future.

Lockton Companies (Reception Sponsor)

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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.

BDO USA, P.C.

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At BDO, our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes — for our people, our clients and our communities. Across the U.S., and in over 160 countries through our global organization, BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services. We offer Clean Tech & Sustainable Finance services to a diverse range of clients across all areas of sustainable investing including how to apply tax credit and incentives to support strategic business objectives – whether seeking financing for innovation, focusing on improving margins or navigating tax credit monetization.

At BDO, we believe that building business sustainably is not just a smart thing to do. It’s the right thing to do.