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The Definitive Tax Equity Master Class Returns in a Live, In-Person Format to Bring You Up-To-Speed on the Most Important Policy, Legal, and Financial Issues Necessary to Optimize the Use Of Tax Incentives for Your Projects and Successfully Source Tax Equity Investment in Today’s Markets

The ability to develop and structure projects in order to successfully source tax equity, traditionally fundamental to the financing of renewable energy projects, has become even more critical in today’s booming development market. With a backlog of delayed projects still being worked off from the pandemic year of 2020 and a rising tide of new activity all competing for tax equity investment, only those who are fully informed on the latest changes in tax equity market conditions, tax policies, incentives, stimulus programs, in-service deadlines, Safe Harbor guidance and the best practices for handling Covid-related construction delays and supply-chain disruptions will be able to take full advantage of the remarkable renewable power opportunities today and in 2022.

Infocast has fully updated our extraordinarily well-received Tax Equity Master Class to bring attendees 100% up-to-speed on today’s most important issues, as well as providing detailed explanations and examples of the solutions being utilized in today’s most advanced renewable energy projects. On top of providing a detailed report on current market conditions and policy innovations, our expert faculty will walk participants through financial models used to guide risk-allocations, credit enhancements instruments, bankability measures, and reaching financial closure; provide a deep dive into appraisal and tax basis risk which will help attendees understand how tax insurance can be used to enhance the bankability of a project, attract tax equity and firm up balance sheets; lay out the critical aspects of partnership flip structures for both wind and solar projects so participants understand how to tailor these structures to meet the needs of investors while optimizing tax efficiency and the economic benefits to projects, and detail partnership and LLC tax issues and how they are incorporated into legal structures and documentation for renewable projects.

Our remarkable faculty, experts working on the most dvanced projects in today’s renewable energy development sector, will provide answers to your toughest questions while providing a detailed overview of the most important new developments in the tax equity market. If you need to come up to speed—and, indeed, to come up to the cutting edge—of current practice, this course is a unique opportunity for you. Please review our detailed course outline and reserve your place today.

CLASS TAKEAWAYS

 

Come up-to-speed on today’s most important changes in market conditions, tax policies, incentives, stimulus programs, and in-service deadlines to help you master the most complex Tax Equity financing structures, including:

  • The latest federal tax incentives and the situation now
  • How the provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal impact Tax Equity and what Build Back better, should it move forward, would change
  • How to construct and implement Partnership flip structures - among the most difficult to craft in the project finance world
  • Get an update on the latest changes to “Begun Construction” and safe harbor rules and strategies to ensure they’re executed properly
  • Learn best practices for handling the added complexity that adding storage to renewable energy projects brings to tax equity investment financing structures
  • ...and more

MASTER CLASS FEATURES

 

11+

Hours of Content

Expert-designed, highly-relevant curriculum

2

Expert Instructors

Direct access to top industry experts and practitioners

In-Person Learning

Optimized professional learning format and setting

Expand Your Network

Connect with top professionals in your industry

INSTRUCTORS

 

  • Lead Instructors

    Shariff Barakat
    Partner
    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

    Jeff Cohen
    Partner
    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

AGENDA

 

Live Q&A and discussion following each session


July 19, 2022 | 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM EST

Session 1: Understanding Federal Tax Incentives and the Situation Now
Session 2: Partnership Rules and a Focus on Capital Accounts
Session 3: Understanding and Implementing Capital Structures for Renewables Partnership Flip
Session 4: Walkthrough of Partnership Flip Models
Session 5: Understanding and Implementing Capital Structures for Renewables Inverted Lease
Session 6: GAAP/IFRS Financial Accounting
Session 7: Tax Equity Documentation

July 20, 2022 | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Session 8: Appraisals for Projects that Generate ITCs
Session 9: Understanding “Begun Construction” and an Update on Safe Harbor Rules and Strategies
Session 10: Hybrid Projects: Handling Tax and Structuring Issues with Solar + Storage Projects
Session 11: Master Class Wrap up


Nuanced, up-to-date, forward-looking, and contextually presented, the class expanded the depth of our firm’s competency for financial transactions.

- Greg Poulos, CEO, ArcVera Renewables


The Master Class was very efficient, educational, effective and productive, and I will do more of these regardless of if we are traveling and going to in-person.

- Peter Blood, Founder and Managing Partner, CYCLE

 

VENUE

 

This Master Class will be held at the following location:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Offices in New York, NY

Bank of America Tower
1 Bryant Pk, 43rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
+1 222.872.1000

You must be fully vaccinated (as part of the venue's requirement) to attend this event.
Masks Highly Recommended.

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