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Clean Technology Ventures
With Stoel Rives' internationally renowned expertise in the clean energy and technology industries combined with our regulatory knowledge, clean technology companies look to Stoel Rives Clean Technology Ventures Group for practical advice and a full range of appropriately targeted legal services.
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Our Clean Technology Ventures Group represents companies with a broad range of clean technologies:
- clean and renewable energy technologies
- green building
- carbon management
- smartgrid software
- energy storage
- advanced materials
- water treatment
- chemical processing
- nanotechnology
- fuel cells
- alternative vehicles
- wave energy
We advise clients through all phases of a clean technology company's life cycle—from raw idea, protection of intellectual property, through angel and venture capital financing, and then on to project development, project finance, sale or public offering. We guide cleantech companies through the industry specific governmental policies, regulatory and compliance demands and opportunities that are changing day-to-day and can challenge management.
Investors, bankers, securities underwriters and other parties involved in the financing of clean technology businesses turn to Stoel Rives. Our strong connections to the financial community and our reputation for clean energy and technology expertise enable us to help our clients find productive relationships.
Some of our clients' representative technologies include:
- Chemical alteration of the properties of forestry products for more durable products
- Electric car plug-in stations
- Recycled waste products to create energy efficient alternatives to traditional building materials
- Wastewater treatment ionic exchange technology in the coalbed methane extraction application
- Cellulose to ethanol strong acid hydrolysis technology
- Floating wind turbine bases in deep water to create offshore wind energy
- Algae for biofuels, animal feed and nutraceuticals
- Algae for remediation and carbon sequestration
- Acceleration of plant maturity to increase production of medicines and nutraceuticals
- Plastics to biofuel technology
- Green building technologies that reduce cement usage and carbon footprint in vertical and horizontal applications
Representative Services
- Corporate Finance
- Company organization and structuring
- Angel, venture capital and private equity financing
- Initial and secondary public offerings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Utilities & Regulation
- Power marketing, including power purchase agreements
- Regulation compliance and agency proceedings
- Carbon offset trading
- Legislation and rulemaking
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Energy
- Environmental
- Construction and Design
- Project Development
- Real estate and land use
- Energy facility siting and permitting
- Construction, design, operations and maintenance
- Fuel supply and transportation
- Public land lease and use
- Environmental assessment
- Joint development agreements
- Project purchase and sale
- Hydropower licensing and permitting
- Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Trade dress
- Licensing agreements
- Trade secrets
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