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.

Banyan Infrastructure

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Banyan Infrastructure is on a mission to use modern software to accelerate the flow of capital to sustainable infrastructure projects around the world.

Banyan Infrastructure is a climate fintech platform designed to simplify, accelerate, and optimize sustainable infrastructure financing across the deal life cycle. Our solution oversees and automates the complex and time-consuming processes in the origination, underwriting, and portfolio management of sustainable assets, which boosts profits per investment, increases deal velocity, and saves thousands of hours at every stage. Connect with us on LinkedIn or visit banyaninfrastructure.com to learn more.

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.

ICF

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ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) is a global consulting and technology services provider with more than 5,000 professionals focused on making big things possible for our clients. We are business analysts, policy specialists, technologists, researchers, digital strategists, social scientists and creatives. Since 1969, government and commercial clients have worked with ICF to overcome their toughest challenges on issues that matter profoundly to their success. Come engage with us at icf.com.

KeyBanc Capital Markets

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We know that successful, long-term business relationships depend upon delivering results for our clients. With more than 800 professionals across a national platform, KeyBanc Capital Markets has more than $50 billion of capital committed to clients and an award-winning Equity Research team that provides coverage on over 600 publicly-traded companies. Our clients benefit from our deep expertise across seven focused industry sectors, including Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrial, Public Sector, Real Estate, and Technology. KeyBanc Capital Markets is a trade name under which corporate and investment banking products and services of KeyCorp and its subsidiaries, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, and KeyBank National Association, are marketed.

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.

Orennia

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Founded in 2021, Orennia is the leading all-in-one platform for accurate data, predictive analytics and actionable insights across the energy transition. Orennia’s platform is relied upon by the most sophisticated investors and developers to make more efficient capital-allocation decisions and maximize returns in the solar, wind, storage, power, RNG, CCUS, clean fuels and hydrogen sectors. The technology that powers Orennia’s platform delivers an unparalleled experience, distilling information into actionable insights to give clients a competitive edge. 

Ascend Analytics

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Ascend Analytics, an innovative leader at the forefront of the energy transition, offers advanced software and consulting services that capture the evolving and real-time dynamics of energy markets. Ascend Analytics provides its customers with optimized and comprehensive decision analysis that span long-term planning to real-time operations in the electric power supply industry.

Leveraging its proprietary software and more than 20 years of expertise, Ascend bridges fundamental physical system conditions with financial outcomes. The company provides critical and highly precise insights to steward capital investments and manage operations, making it an invaluable and key partner to utilities, developers, financiers, and corporate off-takers in managing the complexities of energy portfolios and markets .

The company’s unique ecosystem – which includes planning, valuation, risk management, and power market operations – is trusted by more than 250 leading-edge businesses and is the platform-of-choice that fuels more than $6 billion in asset investments.

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.

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.  

Bildmore Clean Energy

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Bildmore is an EnCap Energy Transition Fund (ETF) 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 10 to 15 minority investments annually, initially focused on utility-scale projects and sponsors who 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 ETF. 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.

Brown & Brown, Risk Solutions

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Brown & Brown’s Risk Solutions team challenges the status quo with our proprietary methodologies and tools to help optimize the way you identify, quantify, mitigate and finance risk. A thorough analysis of your overall insurance program will be done to confirm that your insurance program meets your organization’s total risk appetite and aligns with your strategic business goals. Once your risk portfolio has been quantified and the risk appetite defined, we help you design an optimized risk financing strategy with the goal of minimizing the total expected cost of risk.

CoBank

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CoBank is one of the largest private providers of credit to the U.S. rural economy and infrastructure sector. CoBank’s Project Finance Team consists of 30+ individuals dedicated to the power industry focused on delivering bespoke project financing solutions to renewable energy, BESS, thermal and transmission power projects exclusively located in the U.S. and its territories. CoBank has the ability to partner with other Farm Credit organizations and commercial banks to syndicate large debt facilities. CoBank is often ranked in the top five leading institutions in the power project finance league table in the US. CoBank is AA-/A+ rated by S&P’s and Fitch respectively, which reflects the bank’s public role, unique funding advantage and implied support by the US Government.

DNV

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DNV is a leading independent assurance and risk management company. We provide clients with advice and market insights, services, certification, and advanced digital solutions grounded in deep engineering and technical expertise that help them seize opportunities and tackle risks arising from the energy transition. This includes averting a climate crisis and ensuring an equitable, sustainable energy future. Our experts empower customers across the energy value chain to de-risk, decarbonize, maximize value, and safeguard life, property, and the environment. We are also leading by example, with a bold ambition to become a carbon positive company.

King & Spalding

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King & Spalding is an international law firm helping companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,200 lawyers in 23 offices globally, we deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service. With more than 250 lawyers globally working in conventional energy renewable energy, and energy transition, we have the coverage and strength to manage the largest, most complex transactions and most challenging contested matters faced by our clients, with a primary focus on capital deployers (whether private equity, traditional equity, tax equity or debt) and energy transition, renewable and alternative energy, conventional energy and traditional oil and gas companies.

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.

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.

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.

Orrick

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Orrick is a leading global law firm advising pioneers in energy transition, energy tech and infrastructure modernization on their ambitious decarbonization projects. With a team of 150+ energy lawyers, we support the entire life cycle of a renewables project, including all aspects of joint ventures and M&A, project finance, project development, procurement and regulatory. In the past two years alone, we have closed 250 transactions involving 135+ GW of solar, storage, wind and offshore wind capacity.

Our top tier tax equity team is at the cutting edge of the market experienced with every structure and complexity. Following the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), we have advised on one of the first tax equity financings for a standalone battery storage project, the first tax equity investment in carbon capture equipment, the first hydrogen projects taking advantage of expanded tax credits, and dozens of tax credit transfers. Learn more about Orrick’s practice, market insights and client results here.

Troutman Pepper

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The energy industry is a key vertical and center of excellence at Troutman Pepper. We have been recognized as a “National Top-Tier” Energy Practice for eight consecutive years and received the 2020 “Law Firm of the Year” distinction for Energy Law in U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” edition, and our renewable energy practice has won nationwide recognition in the Chambers USA and The Legal 500 guides. We provide top legal advice to independent power producers, developers, lenders, utilities, industrial and government clients in energy-related businesses in the U.S. and internationally. We have extensive transactional, financing and regulatory experience in the electric power (including renewable energy), natural gas and water industries. The firm can bring to bear top transactional and regulatory practitioners in order to maximize the value of transactions in the heavily regulated energy space.

Aurora Energy Research

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Aurora Energy Research is a market-leading energy analytics company. With over 650 experts covering European, Australian and US power markets, Aurora provides transaction support, project finance, and subscription insight to utilities, developers, investors and lenders. The core of the business built around belief in the power of sophisticated modelling and data to help deliver actionable insights for the energy transition. Aurora is one of the few respected energy pricing analytics providers that delivers sufficiently rigorous and accurate forecasts to be bankable across a number of regions. Aurora’s head office in the USA is in Austin, TX.

FlexGen

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FlexGen designs and integrates energy storage solutions and the software platform that is enabling today’s energy transition.
FlexGen delivers utility-scale storage projects integrated with traditional and renewable power generation globally.
Our clients and partners include the most technically and commercially demanding developers, utilities, EPCs and electric cooperatives in the world.

PA Consulting

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The energy sector is at the heart of the battle against climate change. With a focus on forging a sustainable and net-zero future, the energy transition is underway.

Energy affordability, accessibility, security and water scarcity are just some of the challenges facing the sector. There’s also a huge opportunity, however. The rapid scale-up and use of new technology, the digital and clean mobility revolution, and the creation of resilient and interconnected energy supply chains and infrastructure, are areas redefining the energy eco-system, and the role of the customer.

At PA Consulting, we work across the energy value chain to help our clients thrive in complex energy markets and establish next generation utilities and technology.

PEI Global Partners

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PEI Global Partners is an investment bank specializing in Power, Energy and Infrastructure transactions.

PEI Global Partners supports developers, sponsors, investors and corporate clients with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital raises, financings and special situations by leveraging our deep industry expertise, senior-level investor relationships and execution capabilities.

We are an employee-owned enterprise that aligns our success with that of our clients.

Our four founding partners have over 75 years of relevant experience. Together with our team, we have delivered award winning outcomes for our clients.

Our team prioritizes and delivers the key objectives of our clients through creative and innovative solutions.

PEI Global Partners strives to be a trusted advisor. We unlock value by accessing capital sources across multiple markets to enhance transaction outcomes.

Our affiliate PEI Global Partners LLC is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC.

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.

SolaREIT

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SolaREIT™ is an innovative real estate company focused on delivering financing solutions for solar and battery energy storage developers across the country. Solar and energy storage development are capital intensive—SolaREIT partners with developers and landowners to provide a range of financing solutions. The company was founded by clean energy industry veterans with a proven track record in finance, project development, real estate, and community solar. SolaREIT’s practical, streamlined solutions for financing solar and storage land deliver maximum flexibility based on our partners’ individual needs, financial goals, and vision for their land. SolaREIT offers developers three flexible capital solutions: land purchase, lease purchase, and land loans. Since the company’s founding in 2020, SolaREIT has closed on over a hundred projects on land supporting more than $2 billion of solar and battery projects across the US.

CAMS

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CAMS is a privately held company providing Operations and Maintenance (O&M), Asset Management, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), and Optimization services for energy and infrastructure assets. Our founding principle is to add value through superior management and operation of our clients’ energy infrastructure assets. To this end, we empower our employees to pursue creative and sustainable business practices in the field and at our corporate office that contribute to operational excellence, financial performance, a safe workplace, and a better community and environment. We do not take this responsibility lightly: We treat the assets with which we are entrusted as our own. For additional information, visit www.camstex.com.

Black & Veatch Global Advisory

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Black & Veatch is an employee-owned consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction company with a 100-year legacy of innovation in sustainable infrastructure.

Our global professionals include experienced industry executives, senior analysts, and technology experts from across the electric, water, oil, natural gas and technology industries. This experience, combined with seamless access to the company’s professional engineering, procurement, construction and operations capabilities, executives, and internationally respected subject matter experts, makes Black & Veatch particularly qualified to assist clients with their most complex challenges. Over the past 5 years, our Transaction Advisory team has supported over $100 billion in transactions and completed over 500 engagements involving various projects and companies. We were also recognized as the #1 Technical Advisor by Deal Count in 2020 by the Inframation Group.

Leidos Engineering

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As the energy industry has evolved, so too have the ways projects are financed and portfolios optimized. Leidos keeps pace with the transformation of our industry, continuously refining our approach and broadening our expertise to tackle the challenges clients face when developing, acquiring, financing, and investing in projects and assets. As independent engineers, our diligence is tailored to the technologies utilized, the transactions sought, and the goals and requirements of the parties involved.

Leidos’ consultants have experience with many of the technologies reshaping the energy industry, from green fuels and energy storage to waste conversion and carbon capture. Lessons learned from decades of working with conventional and renewable technologies are applied to every project we undertake. Expertise in transmission assessment and market consulting complement our independent engineering services for a full view of how projects will compete and perform. We welcome your inquiries at [email protected].

The Megawatt Group

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The Megawatt Group connects forward-thinking, U.S.-based solar buyers with the top Tier-1 Module manufacturers in the world. Every day we put our resources, expertise and access to work for our clients. From helping EPCs streamline procurement to giving overseas manufacturers a foothold in the US market, we strive to help our partners – and the solar industry itself – thrive.

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.