About Lea
Lea Benitah-Bouchard is a senior associate in Stoel Rives’ Project Finance practice and part of the firm’s renewable energy team. Lea has experience representing investors, developers, and financial institutions in complex energy and infrastructure transactions in the U.S. and Canada, with a particular focus on the solar and wind industry. She regularly advises clients on tax equity partnerships, debt financings, joint ventures, purchase agreements, and project development matters. Lea is also a member of the Seattle office’s Coaching & Mentoring Committee and a board member of the French-American Chamber of Commerce, Pacific Northwest Chapter.
Before joining Stoel Rives, Lea was a corporate associate with Stikeman Elliott LLP, where she represented public and private companies, private equity sponsors, pension funds, and financial institutions in a broad range of financing, infrastructure, and PPP transactions in Canada and internationally. She has expertise relating to the regulation of derivatives, exchanges, and clearing houses. Lea also worked as an intern with Goldman Sachs in Paris and as an associate with Phillips Friedman Kotler LLP. While in law school, Lea worked as a law clerk for the Superior Court of Quebec.
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