Experience

Graham Noyes is Of Counsel in the Energy and Telecommunications practice group. Graham focuses his practice on the development and improvement of renewable energy companies and other clean technology ventures. Representative clients include companies involved in the wind, biofuel, synfuel, fuel cell, biogas, biomass, and carbon cap and trading sectors.

Graham joined Stoel Rives after working for seven years in sales and business development in the biofuels industry. As an executive at two leading U.S. biodiesel companies, Graham garnered a wide range of practical experience in emerging industry issues including corporate organization and management; integration of renewable fuels into existing fuel and energy markets; infrastructure and logistics planning and deployment; commodity hedging and trading; policy driven markets; and strategic relationships.

Graham works with clients to develop solutions appropriate to their business. His transactional experience includes drafting, negotiating and closing agreements for renewable energy producers and marketers, major petroleum companies, utilities, and major agricultural commodity suppliers. For clients seeking financing, he works closely with the firm's corporate group to provide instruments such as early stage capital, venture capital fund raising, debt and equity structures, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Graham is also knowledgeable in mid-stream and down-stream petroleum finished products markets, including infrastructure, rail, trucking, domestic and international shipping, pipeline, terminal, bulk plant, retail distribution, tax, incentive, specification and regulatory compliance issues. He has significant experience with policy matters on both the state and federal level, and works with state policy groups, trade associations, lobbyists and policy makers on renewable energy and clean technology issues.

Vice president, sales and business development, Imperium Renewables Inc., 2007-2008; Vice president, sales, 2003-2006, World Energy Alternatives LLC; Director of operations, Western U.S. 2000-2003, World Energy Alternatives LLC; Sole practitioner, Law Offices of Graham Noyes, 1995-2000; Associate public defender, Sacramento County, 1992-1995.

Representative Work

• Assisted company developing next generation biojet fuel projects obtain intellectual property and trade secrets protection.
• Advised agri-business growing next generation biofuel feedstocks in Central and South America.
• Drafted marine provisions, time charter agreement and purchase and sale agreements for biofuels and clean products barges.
• Assisted in development of a wind turbine supply agreement for 85 MW windfarm.
• Developed joint development agreement for European-based utility to invest in North American biogas projects.
• Negotiated first agreement to supply biodiesel blend via common carrier pipeline in United States.
• Negotiated and drafted biodiesel supply agreement with Constellation Energy in 20 eastern states.
• Negotiated biofuel supply agreement and requirements contract with Hawaiian Electric Company for 110 MW Generating Station.
• Castillo v. Marshall successfully filed and pursued through summary judgment motions a federal prisoner civil rights action against the California Department of Corrections that ultimately established due process protections for inmates in segregation units of California's maximum security prisons.
• Tried over 30 juvenile, misdemeanor and felony criminal and civil trials in state and federal court and won verdict in majority of these.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Secretary (former), Governing Board, National Biodiesel Board
• Member, Northwest Energy Angels
• Member, Washington Clean Tech Alliance
• Section Member, American Bar Association, Environment, Energy and Resources

Presentations

• "DOE Loan Program for Renewables: Critical Path Timeline Issues," EUCI Webinar, May 27, 2010
• Speaker, "The Wild Card in Fossil Fuel Economics," Streamlining Global Supply Chain Operations Conference, Chicago, IL, May 3-4, 2010
• Speaker, "Live Interview with the Industry RFS2 Experts," Biofuels Webinar Series, Apr. 20, 2010
• Speaker, "Biofuel in Aviation: Policy and Infrastructure," 2degrees Ltd. Webinar, Jan. 26, 2010
• "Will California meet its Renewable Portfolio Standard in 2010" (moderated panel), Platts 4th Annual California Power Market Forum, San Francisco, 2008
• "American Ingenuity in Biofuels," Next Generation Biofuels Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
• "International Perspective on Biodiesel: Taking Biodiesel Global," Canadian Renewable Fuel Summit, 2006
• "U.S. Commercial Biodiesel Market Outlook for 2007," Future Fuels Conference, Washington, D.C., 2006
• "Outlook for Biodiesel," International Fuels Quality Center, Washington, D.C., 2006
• "An Overview of Biodiesel," presentation to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2005
• "Strategic Benefits of Biodiesel Use," California Air Resources Board Workshop on Petroleum Reduction Strategies, 2004
• "The Strategic Use of Biodiesel to Improve Air, Water and Soil Quality and to Reduce Public Health Risks," Environmental Health Congress, 2004
• "Achieving Enhanced Particulate Matter Reductions and Compliance Flexibility with Certified Alternative Diesel Fuels," California Air Resources Board, 2004
• "Biodiesel's Growing Role in Improving U.S. Energy Security," WESTSTART Clean Heavy Duty Vehicles Conference, 2004
• "The Role of Biodiesel Blends in Achieving the Goals of the SCAQMD's Air Toxics Control Plan for the Next Ten Years," South Coast Air Quality Management District, 2003

Civic Activities

• Patron, Seattle Art Museum
• Member, Bainbridge Island Parent Teacher Organization
• Mentor, University of Virginia Alumni Association
• Member, Washington Athletic Club

Publications

• "On the Right Path," Energy & Infrastructure magazine, Winter 2010. Also published in Construction Today, January 1, 2010.
• "Wind, Solar and Biodiesel Industries Look to Busy Congress for Crucial Extensions," Energy Law 360, Sep. 23, 2008
• The "Commercial Contracts" Chapter in the Stoel Rives Publication The Law of Biofuels, 2008 Edition
• The "Next Generation Biofuels" (co-authored with David Benson) Chapter in the Stoel Rives Publication The Law of Biofuels, 2008 Edition
• "Biodiesel Production and Use – American Grown Diesel Fuel," (co-authored with Tracey Osborne), Energy and Resources Group, University of California Berkeley, 2005
• "Cutting the President Off from Tin Cup Diplomacy," 24 UC Davis Law Review 841, Spring 1991
• "International Transfer of Toxic Waste," Environs, King Hall School of Law, Spring 1990

Education

• University of California, Davis, J.D., 1991
  Staff editor, U.C. Davis Law Review
  Order of the Coif
• University of Virginia, B.A., 1987, with distinction

Admissions

• Washington
• California
• District of Columbia
• US District Court, Northern California

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