Experience

• Representation of a renewable energy client in an equipment loan to refinance client’s purchase of “safe harbored” solar PV modules, collateralized by the equipment and a pledge of development stage projects.
• Representation of a solar developer in the tax equity, construction, and back-leverage debt financing of three utility-scale solar projects in California and Colorado totaling 270 MW.
• Representation of Forefront Power in the negotiation of a sale-leaseback financing for a portfolio of distributed generation solar facilities.
• Representation of sPower in developing a form EPC agreement for a battery storage-only RFP.
• Representation of sPower in the negotiation of a split-scope solar EPC agreement for a utility-scale project under development in Arizona.
• Representation of sPower in the negotiation of a BOP agreement for the repowering of a large wind facility in California.
• Representation of a solar developer in connection with the development, management, and implementation of a 1 GW solar module safe harbor strategy.
• Representation of a solar developer in a land purchase loan, construction loan, USDA-backed permanent loan, and EPC and O&M agreements for a 3 MW solar project in California.
• Assisted sPower in back-leveraged debt and a partnership-flip tax equity financing of a 105 MW solar project in California.
• Representation of a solar developer in connection with the purchase of a 40 MW solar project under development in California.
• Representation of Forefront Power, LLC in the tax equity financing of 64 MW of residential community solar projects in New York and Maryland.
• Assisted a developer in connection with a build-own-transfer agreement for the repowering and sale of two operating wind projects in Minnesota totaling 80 MW.
• Representation of a solar developer with procurement agreements for 1 GW portfolio of solar projects.
• Representation of Geronimo Renewable Infrastructure Partners, L.P. in tax equity and back-leveraged debt financing of a nine-project, 40 MW portfolio of community solar garden projects in Minnesota.
• Assisted EDF in drafting and coordinating ancillary documents and exhibits for an offshore wind supply turbine agreement.
• Assisted Leeward Renewable Energy, LLC, in drafting balance of plant agreements for domestic wind repowering projects.
• Representation of a solar developer in a land purchase loan, construction loan, and EPC and O&M agreements for a 3 MW solar project in Napa County, California.
• Assisted in the purchase and sale of a 500+ MW solar PV facility in California.
• Assisted in negotiating and drafting EPC subcontracts of a 500+ MW solar PV facility in California.
• Performed feasibility analyses of proposed biogas plants in Honduras and Puerto Rico.
• Assisted in closing the $250 million bond refinancing of a California wind farm.
• Trained a client in EPC contract compliance.
• Drafted real property agreements for portfolios of solar rooftop projects.
• Assisted in closing the $1.2 billion financing of a 600 MW wind project in California.

Honors & Activities

• Henry Luce Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policy, Tokyo, Japan, 2007–2008

Insights & Presentations

• “Practitioner Insights: Forward With Solar, Storage in Puerto Rico” (co-author), Bloomberg BNA Environment, November 7, 2017
• Transnational Corporations, Vol. 20, No. 1, April 2011, edited by Karl P. Sauvant and Miles Killingsworth (Published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)

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