Alison V. Dietze

A project finance attorney in Stoel Rives’ San Francisco office, Alison Dietze advises developers, investors, and lenders on renewable energy transactions across the project lifecycle. Alison’s practice focuses on project‑level financings for distributed generation and utility‑scale developments, including investment tax credit tax equity transactions, sale‑leaseback structures, debt facilities, and bridge financings.

Alison represents clients in the negotiation and documentation of core project and operational agreements supporting financing and long‑term operations, including operations and maintenance agreements, maintenance service agreements, administrative services agreements, and related arrangements. Her experience also includes handling guarantees, legal opinions, consents, and ancillary financing documentation; coordinating complex, multi‑party transactions; conducting legal due diligence for renewable energy M&A; advising on project‑level entity formation and governance; preparing federal and state regulatory analyses; and counseling growth‑stage and climate‑focused companies on fundraising, governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Alison was an attorney with an Am Law 100 firm. While attending law school, she was a legal intern with the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2023; staff editor, executive print editor, Georgetown Environmental Law Review

University of Colorado, M.Env., Sustainability Planning and Management Specialization, 2019

University of Virginia, B.A., Psychology; minor: Global Sustainability, 2015

Admissions

California

• Represented a leading renewable energy developer in a $1.4 billion portfolio financing for two standalone battery energy storage projects in Arizona, including construction debt financing, a hybrid tax equity commitment, and a tax credit transfer transaction.

• Finalist for the Institute for Energy Law’s 2023 Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition with the paper From Waste to Energy: Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas in the United States