Projects & Money

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has one of the world’s leading project finance and renewable energy practices. We represent developers, lenders, equity investors, manufacturers, technology companies and other sector participants in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects, with a focus on the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and renewable energy companies.

Our team has significant experience across all renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biofuel and hydroelectric projects and over the past year we have been lead counsel on the three largest renewable energy projects financed in the United States.

CAC Specialty

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With a knowledge-driven approach informed by industry data and decades of honed instinct, CAC Specialty brings an innovative vision to insurance broking to solve your risk challenges – from the simple to the previously unsolvable. CAC Specialty is an integrated specialty insurance brokerage and investment banking business focused on providing subject matter expertise and placement capabilities across the spectrum of insurance and alternative capital markets.

CAC Specialty provides a cohesive team across all disciplines to help you take a project from early-stage concept and development through completion. CAC Specialty’s Tax Insurance team is composed of tax attorneys who combine their technical expertise, industry experience, and business acumen to craft innovative and unique renewable energy tax insurance solutions. CAC Natural Resources has a strong team with a proven reputation for exemplary client service within our industry verticals: Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream), Power, Utilities and Renewables, Mining and Metals, and Surety.

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.

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 2021 and 2022 globally. This strength is evidenced by on our 2022 Band 1 Chambers Global: Multi-Jurisdictional Projects & Energy ranking, recognition at the PFI and IJ Global awards and topping IJ Global’s renewables league tables for FY2021.

Marathon Capital

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Marathon Capital is a leading financial advisory and investment banking firm focused on providing financial advice in the areas of M&A, capital raising of debt and equity, project finance, tax equity, financial restructuring, recapitalization, bankruptcy and workout situations in the energy sector. Marathon Capital is a three-time recipient of the “Best Renewable Asset M&A Advisor” Award (2013, 2014, 2016), as well as the “Renewable Generating Project Finance Deal of the Year” Award (2016) in Power Finance & Risk’s Annual Power Finance Deals and Firms Awards.

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.

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.

Apex Clean Energy

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Apex Clean Energy was founded with a singular focus: to accelerate the shift to clean energy. Through origination, construction, and operation of utility-scale wind, solar, and storage facilities, distributed energy resources, and green fuel technologies, Apex is expanding the renewable frontier across North America. Our mission-driven team of more than 300 professionals uses a data-focused approach and an unrivaled portfolio of projects to create solutions for the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking customers. For more information about how Apex is building the energy company of the future, visit apexcleanenergy.com.

CoBank

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CoBank is a $158 billion cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides commercial loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving more than 75,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states around the country. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, CoBank serves customers from regional banking centers across the U.S. and also maintains an international representative office in Singapore.

Crowell & Moring LLP

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Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with offices in Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, London, and Brussels. With over 500 attorneys, we represent major businesses – both public and private – in complex high-stakes litigation, enforcement, regulatory and administrative, and transactional matters, and government and internal investigations.

The firm’s multi-service Energy and Environment & Natural Resources groups include more than 60 attorneys who provide solutions spanning the range of energy and environmental matters. We offer a complete range of services to clients involved in the regulatory, policy and legal requirements affecting the energy industry throughout the U.S. Our practice has extensive capabilities and experience, particularly with respect to climate change law, infrastructure project development, financing and acquisition transactions, federal and state electric and gas regulation, litigation, compliance, and enforcement matters.

Denham Capital

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Founded in 2004, Denham Capital is a global energy, resources and sustainable infrastructure investment firm, with more than $12 billion of invested and committed capital across multiple fund vehicles since inception. Specializing in private equity, infrastructure and debt, we invest in sectors that are central to the economic and energy transitions happening globally. We deliver the sustainable infrastructure, energy and mineral resources needed for today and tomorrow.

Denham Capital sponsors entrepreneurs, delivering the financial resources and industry expertise needed to create and grow successful infrastructure and resource businesses. We seek to establish long term partnerships with entrepreneurs and companies who share our vision for growth and value creation. Our investment teams have extensive infrastructure, energy and resources investment experience, including technical experience as engineers, operators, and business owners.

Foley & Lardner

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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/)

Holland & Knight

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Holland & Knight is a global law firm with approximately 1,600 lawyers and other professionals in 31 offices worldwide. The firm's lawyers and advisors provide full-ranging representation on corporate and finance, litigation, real estate and governmental matters. Holland & Knight offers more than 120 years of energy industry experience and was named a Law360 2021 "Energy Practice Group of the Year." The firm's interdisciplinary Renewable Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure Team is a recognized leader in the development and financing of projects across
the spectrum – including solar, wind, energy storage, alternative fuels, hydroelectric power and geothermal energy. Providing legal counsel coast to coast in the U.S. as well as around the globe, Holland & Knight's clients include project developers, public utilities, investment funds, component manufacturers, equipment suppliers, tax and private equity investors, financial institutions, public power authorities, project off-takers and industry advocacy groups.

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.

Leyline Renewable Capital

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Leyline Renewable Capital invests in the development, construction, and financing of sophisticated renewable energy projects. Backed by a team of seasoned investors with deep experience in the renewable industry, Leyline provides financing that bridges the gap between development and construction. By investing in the pre-construction phase of renewable energy projects, Leyline can accelerate the development process and help developers scale their business. Leyline leverages a broad base of experience in greenfield project development, design, construction, and finance with an extensive network of relationships with industry leaders to provide support and capital for projects from concept to commercial operation.

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.

MUFG Union Bank

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MUFG Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service bank with offices across the United States. The bank also offers an extensive portfolio of value-added solutions for customers, including access to investment banking, personal and corporate trust, capital markets, global custody, transaction banking, and other services. With assets of $120.0 billion as of March 31, 2016, the bank has strong capital reserves, credit ratings, and capital ratios relative to peer banks.1 MUFG Union Bank is a proud member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MTU), one of the world’s largest financial organizations with total assets of approximately ¥298.3 trillion (JPY) or $2.6 trillion (USD),2 as of March 31, 2016. MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation, the financial holding company, and MUFG Union Bank, N.A., have corporate headquarters in New York City.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

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Chadbourne & Parke and Norton Rose Fulbright merged on June 30 to make a combined firm with 4,000 lawyers in 59 offices in 33 countries, including 400 working in the power sector of whom close to a 100 are in the United States.  The prestigious Chambers directory has consistently ranked the Chadbourne project finance team at the top of the US renewable energy market based on year-round interviewing of corporate law departments and peers at other firms.  The group did $53.5 billion in financings in the last two years.   Approximately 60% of the work of the group in each of the last 11 years has been in renewable energy. The group has worked on projects in more than 80 countries.

Skadden

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates delivers the highest quality advice and novel solutions to legal challenges, enabling clients to achieve their business goals. We are known for the innovative and creative thinking we rely on to handle the most complex transactions, litigation/controversy issues, and regulatory matters, as well as the open, collaborative relationships we build with clients, including corporations; financial and governmental entities; small, entrepreneurial companies; and cultural, educational and charitable institutions.

Twain Financial Partners

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Twain Financial Partners is an investment management firm located in St. Louis, MO with more than $4 billion in assets under management within the public-private partnership sector. The firm works with a wide variety of investment types, specializing in tax credit, structured debt, and real estate transactions. Twain works closely with financial institutions and corporations to structure and manage investments that offer both attractive economic return and social benefits. We provide services, capital, and structuring in complex financial markets.

U.S. Bancorp

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With $31 billion in managed assets as of September 30, 2019, U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation, a subsidiary of U.S. Bank, provides innovative financing solutions for community development projects across the country using state and federally sponsored tax credit programs. USBCDC’s commitments provide capital investment to areas that need it the most and contribute to the creation of new jobs, the rehabilitation of historic buildings, the construction of needed affordable and market-rate homes, the development of renewable energy facilities, and the generation of commercial economic activity in underserved communities. Visit USBCDC on the web at www.usbank.com/cdc.

Aon

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Aon’s Transaction Solutions team is the leading tax insurance broker for securing tax credit investments in renewable energy.   Our tax insurance team is comprised of experts recognized across the industry for their experience in developing innovative, cost-effective tax insurance solutions. We help protect M&A and financing transactions as well as managing tax risks outside of a transaction.

Aon has led the creation and advancement of transaction liability insurance. We bring a depth of knowledge and passion for developing tailored solutions to your complex deal risks that is unparalleled in the insurance industry through our team of tax and M&A attorneys and other senior professionals.  In addition to tax insurance, our team specializes in representations and warranties insurance and other bespoke solutions to support sales of projects and developers.

Aon is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.  Aon’s renewable energy practice leads the industry in providing P&C insurance for projects across the globe.

Energetic Insurance

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Energetic Insurance® is a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) that unlocks exponential growth in the renewable energy industry. Our product, EneRate Credit Cover™, facilitates clean energy project financing for the underserved commercial and industrial (C&I) segment by covering offtaker credit default risk on long-term renewable contracts. Our insurance policies are backed by our insurance partners’ AA – /Aa3 credit ratings and can satisfy lender and tax equity underwriting requirements without adversely impacting project economics. Our portfolio comprises 1,200+ insured sites across 48 states spanning technologies from solar, energy storage, energy efficiency, and other renewable-focused technologies.

PA Consulting

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We’re not a traditional consulting firm. We’re different in what we do, and even more in how we do it. We’re an innovation and transformation consultancy.

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

Wattbridge

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WattBridge Energy LLC is a Houston, Texas-based peak-power solutions developer and operator. Serving as a bridge between emissions-intensive power generation and a fully renewable future, WattBridge operates under the vision of enabling wind and solar-energy growth. With 1,824 MW operating or under construction in the Greater Houston area and a further 1,728 MW in advanced development—all driven by reliable LM6000 engines—WattBridge is among the largest operators of this technology in the world. For more on WattBridge, visit www.wattbridge.info.

Brown & Brown, Risk Solutions

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Brown & Brown is a large account risk management broker that values depth of industry and product knowledge. Operating as a single profit center organized by specialization align our service teams to be structured based on what is best for clients’ business rather than geographic convenience. We go beyond one-off transactions and utilize advanced analytics on every program. By quantifying the effects each decision will have on a company’s risk profile, we take the mystery out of buying insurance. Execution on analytical findings is our true differentiator in mitigating losses and affecting process changes. Our collective success is earned by creating the ideal risk management solution for our clients.

Monarch Private Capital

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Monarch Private Capital manages ESG 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.

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.

Carlisle Tax Credits

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Carlisle Tax Credits is a leading advisor to tax credit investors nationwide. Since 2006, we have assisted our clients in evaluating and investing more than $3.5 billion in tax credit equity to finance historic preservation, affordable housing and renewable energy projects.

Carlisle creates and manages high-yielding private investment funds and proprietary partnerships for corporate investors. Our team of seasoned tax credit professionals help investors through the life cycle of a tax credit investment program. As a trusted advisor, we assist investors in developing an internal strategy consistent with company risk profile, evaluate and underwrite investments, manage the closing process, perform asset management services and manage partnership unwinds. Whether you are an investor looking for opportunities, or a project in search of equity, we look forward to hearing from you.

Leidos Engineering

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Leidos applies technical, commercial, and regulatory expertise to advise the development, financing, acquisition, and restructuring of capital-intensive energy and infrastructure assets. Our capabilities span renewable and conventional power generation, gas midstream, transmission and distribution, and emerging energy solutions meeting the demands of the evolving marketplace. Built on a rich history of technology excellence, Leidos provides independent engineering, market analysis, and transmission analysis to help our clients understand each project’s full potential to compete and perform. Learn more at energy.leidos.com.

Loeb & Loeb LLP

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Loeb & Loeb is a premier law firm focused on helping organizations and individuals innovate, grow and evolve in a changing world. Our market-leading practice and industry teams deliver practical insight and strategic solutions in complex deals, high-profile disputes, cutting-edge regulatory issues and other matters critical to our clients’ success. The firm has more than 450 lawyers across eight offices in the United States and Asia. To learn more, visit www.loeb.com.

Aurora Energy Research

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Aurora Energy Research is a market-leading energy analytics company. With over 225 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.