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Alston & Bird's integrated renewable energy practice incorporates within a single group, expertise in project development and finance, renewable energy policy, carbon management and renewable energy technology. The group's synergistic approach is unique among law firms and positions the group to add significant value to renewable energy transactions. The group's attorneys are experienced in all sectors of the space, including solar, wind, biofuels, biomass and commodity carbon. With over 800 attorneys, Alston & Bird's offices are in New York, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park.

For more information, visit www.alston.com/.

Baker Botts is an international law firm recognized for our creative approach to the legal and business issues facing our clients. The work we do is often groundbreaking. With approximately 700 lawyers and a worldwide network of offices, our approach to the law practice is collaborative, with lawyers functioning as integrated teams to bring the most appropriate response to client needs.

For more information, visit www.bakerbotts.com/.

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 900 attorneys among nine offices in Chicago, Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

Our firm serves the needs of enterprises of all types and sizes, in both the private and the public sector. The exceptional depth and geographic reach of our resources enable Winston & Strawn to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue.

For more information, visit www.winston.com/.

Kaye Scholer is an international law firm with approximately 500 lawyers in eight offices around the world. Our global transaction and litigation capability covers a multitude of practices in areas including renewable energy, litigation, corporate, real estate, business reorganization, wills and estates and tax.

For more information, visit www.kayescholer.com/web.nsf/HomePage?OpenForm.

Stoel Rives LLP, a leading full-service law firm, is proud to have been at the forefront of the explosive growth of renewable energy in recent years. With one of the largest U.S. renewable energy practices, we have represented major national and international energy developers and operators in wind, biofuels, ocean and tidal, geothermal and solar energy projects throughout the United States and abroad. Our representation encompasses all aspects of power project licensing, local permitting, financing, taxation, real estate, equipment, procurement, construction, project acquisition and project operations. We have developed a strong reputation assisting renewable energy providers throughout a project lifecycle, including site selection, development, construction and financing. By 2007, Stoel had provided legal counsel to approximately 40 percent of the installed capacity of U.S. wind power. Stoel Rives is a founding member of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the Northwest Biofuels Association, and the National Algae Association, and is actively engaged in organizations such as the American Wind Energy Association, the Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition, and Renewable Northwest Project.

For more information, visit www.stoel.com.

For over 30 years, Pace Global has pioneered energy and carbon management solutions to companies in all segments of the energy value chain. Our innovative services support the execution of business strategies, complex energy transactions, asset development, and operations in over 40 countries on six continents. Headquartered outside Washington, D.C. with offices worldwide, Pace Global advises clients ranging from energy developers, financial institutions, and utilities to industrial, manufacturing, and diversified commercial enterprises.

For more information, visit www.paceglobal.com.

King & Spalding’s strategically placed offices and experienced attorneys have made the firm a top energy industry choice. King & Spalding is teamed with a variety of clients engaged in the midstream natural gas industry, including LNG import terminal sponsors, gas processors and gas storage projects. The firm handles a full range of energy services, including development, permitting, real estate, financing, M&A, A&D, commercial and construction contracting, government relations and dispute resolution.

For more information, visit www.kslaw.com/.

Waller Lansden's healthcare experience dates back to the start of the Medicare program in the 1960s, and today Waller Lansden is recognized as one of the largest and most experienced healthcare law firms in the United States. Waller Lansden's lawyers advise healthcare clients in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, syndications, divestitures, commercial finance, securities offerings, corporate restructuring, distressed asset transactions, real estate, tax, and the expansion or relocation of business operations. Our clients include numerous successful hospital companies; outpatient providers; hospice, home health and senior living companies; life sciences; and healthcare technology companies operating throughout the United States and overseas, as well as private equity funds, venture capital companies, healthcare finance companies and investor groups that are frequent participants in healthcare transactions.

For more information, visit www.wallerlaw.com/.

DELOITTE’S M&A practice provides, comprehensive and strategically focused tax, accounting and advisory services to both financial and corporate buyers. With a global network of over 4,000 M&A specialists, clients have access to experienced professionals in all forms of acquisitions, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post transaction and integration activities. Our multi-disciplinary approach teams top-flight M&A professionals, industry specialists and technical experts to provide fact-based answers and independent advice geared to helping clients minimize risk and maximize returns.

For more information, visit www.deloitte.com.

Navigant Consulting is a specialized independent consulting firm providing professional services to assist clients in identifying practical solutions to the challenges of uncertainty, risk, and distress. As the energy industry continues to face unprecedented challenges, our clients – power generators, transmission owners, energy end-users, equipment manufacturers, regulators, and investors alike – turn to us for help. Our work reflects our solid functional expertise and deep industry understanding of energy fundamentals including: the regulatory process, financing and transactions, market design, supply and demand dynamics, business and operational strategies, technology choices, and all aspects of operations.

For more information, visit www.navigantconsulting.com/energy.

ScottMadden, Inc., a leading management consulting firm specializing in energy, sustainability, and shared services, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2008. Since 1983 we have been a trusted advisor to leaders in the energy industry as well as many other Fortune 500 companies, consulting on business issues affecting long-term growth and profitability. Our firm is dedicated to helping clients understand, visualize, and realize their business objectives. The combination of our business focus, industry knowledge, consulting experience, and tailored approach distinguishes us from other firms. ScottMadden is committed to delivering an exceptional consulting experience.

For more information, visit www.scottmadden.com/.

As the country's only provider of spun concrete, tubular steel and hybrid poles for the power delivery industry, Valmont-Newmark offers utility engineers a seamless blend of custom solutions for diverse applications in their power delivery projects, maximizing their economic benefits.

From transmission and distribution poles to substation structures, our products can be ordered, fabricated and delivered to any site, in any combination of concrete, steel, or hybrid (concrete/steel). That means engineers have the flexibility - through one company - to customize segments of a line with poles fabricated out of materials suited for the environment. The final result is a line that is more cost effective, aesthetically pleasing and durable.

For more information, visit www.valmont-newmark.com.

Quanta Services, Inc. designs, installs, repairs and maintains the infrastructure needed to deliver some of today’s most important commodities, including power, gas and communications. Powered by the experience and reputation of some of the most established and respected transmission and distribution contractors in this country, Quanta is the one source committed to providing safe, reliable, and efficient services to ensure the operational effectiveness of energy network infrastructure today and into the future.

For more information, visit www.QuantaServices.com.

Haddington Ventures, through its private equity funds, provides superior returns to its partners and investors by focusing on the midstream energy sector. The Fund will generally make control-oriented investments in companies focused on gathering, separation, processing, treating, compression, storage, and transmission. Haddington is unique in that it is the only midstream energy fund in which all principals have substantial direct operating experience. As such, the Fund is capable of investing in both growth by acquisitions companies and greenfield development companies. This capability allows Haddington to capitalize on current market conditions in the midstream sector.

For more information, visit www.hvllc.com/.

Orrick is a full service law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices throughout the world . Orrick's Energy Group gives our clean-tech clients the capability to provide scalable resources as they grow their businesses. Our multidisciplinary team is experienced in areas critical to energy matters, including project finance, emerging companies, capital markets, securities, public finance, mergers & acquisitions, environmental, IP, tax and litigation.

For more information, visit www.orrick.com/practices/global/energy.asp.

With approximately 2,000 attorneys in 24 offices on five continents, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates serves clients in every major financial center. For more than 60 years, Skadden has provided a wide array of legal services to the corporate, industrial, financial and governmental communities around the world in many of the most significant corporate transactions and litigations. Our clients range from a variety of small, start-up companies to a substantial number of the 500 largest U.S. corporations and many of the leading global companies. The firm has more than 40 practice areas and advises clients in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, corporate finance, corporate restructuring, securities law, banking, project finance, energy and infrastructure, antitrust, tax and intellectual property. Skadden emphasizes dedication to client service, teamwork across practice areas and offices, creativity, responsiveness, operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Skadden received the 2007 Chambers Global Award for "Client Service Law Firm of the Year," one of the top honors given by Chambers Global.

For more information, visit www.skadden.com/.

Founded more than 90 years ago in 1916, Baker Hostetler is among the nation’s 100 largest law firms with 600 attorneys coast to coast. The firm has offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its four primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Litigation and Tax.

For more information, visit www.bakerlaw.com/.

With approximately 900 lawyers in 18 strategically located offices worldwide, McGuire Woods uses client-focused teams to serve a range of industries, particularly energy. More than 70 lawyers in the practice represent developers, investors, industrials, utilities and customers of renewable energy facilities. Our work includes development, acquisition and financing of projects; purchase and sale of renewable energy companies; and capital raising transactions for renewable energy companies. Particular areas within biomass where we have an active practice include biomass-fired power plants, landfill gas, ethanol, biodiesel, biomass gasification and waste-to-energy.

For more information, visit www.mcguirewoods.com/.

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP was founded in 1886 by lawyers committed to excellence in the practice of law, a principle to which we remained dedicated. We have grown into a multi-practice, multi-regional law firm, with over 550 lawyers in 12 offices nationwide. We have a national multidisciplinary energy and project finance practice that focuses on renewable energy and climate change matters, as well as the traditional energy sectors of transmission, regulation, and nuclear, gas-fired, and coal generation. We are one of a handful of U.S. law firms that handle alternative energy financings involving both private sector financing utilizing tax credits and public sector financing using tax-exempt bonds.

For more information, visit www.ballardspahr.com/.

Paul Hastings provides guidance to the world's leading financial institutions, multinational corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and other organizations. With 18 offices across Asia, Europe and North America, Paul Hastings' 1,200 lawyers form teams that align with the strategies of our clients. The core areas of our global practice include global projects, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, securities and capital markets, tax, intellectual property, employment, finance and restructuring, international arbitration, investment management, product liability, real estate and litigation.

For more information, visit www.paulhastings.com/.

Dickstein Shapiro LLP provides comprehensive transactional, regulatory, litigation, government relations, insurance coverage and intellectual property services to clients across the power and other energy industries. In our power industry practice, we represent clients at all stages in the development, financing, and restructuring of large infrastructure projects. We also provide counsel with regard to project operations, including purchasing and selling generation, transmission development and utilization, asset sales and equity investments, competitive auctions, privatizations and divestitures, distressed asset sales, and bankruptcy dispositions. We advise clients involved in most commercial and developmental power technologies, including utility and non-utility electric generation facilities (renewables, natural gas, coal and nuclear); electric transmission lines; smart grid, efficiency, power and energy storage, and demand response. We have also advised on transactions involving the purchase and sale of energy trading books, energy data vendors, and energy management systems.

For more information, visit www.dicksteinshapiro.com.

AIR2 Helicopter Airborne Line Teams deliver customer focused power line services to utilities and utility contractors. Our flight crews, line crews and management team members have over two decades of experience providing construction, maintenance and inspection services to North American utility companies and contractors. Services include: New line construction projects, Maintenance and repair of existing lines, Inspections, mapping and digital video recording of power lines and right-of-ways, Medium and Heavy Lift Operations and Emergency response.

For more information, visit www.air2.com/.

A123Systems develops and manufactures advanced lithium-ion batteries and battery systems for the transportation, electric grid services and portable power markets. A123Systems patented Nanophosphate™ lithium ion batteries are designed to deliver a new combination of power, safety and life. Applicable to a wide range of industries, A123Systems’ can enable OEMs expanded flexibility in system design. With world-class expertise and management, global manufacturing operations and one of the laaargest automotive lithium ion R&D teams, A123Systems’ and its Automotive Class Lithium Ion™ products are helping to accelerate platform electrification. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Massachusetts, A123Systems’ proprietary nanoscale electrode technology is built on initial developments from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For more information, visit www.a123systems.com.

Marshall & Lueder specializes in providing legal services to the energy industry and developing strategic and practical solutions for clients in a competitive energy market. We have extensive experience representing independent power producers, electric utilities, project developers and equity investors in a wide variety of sophisticated transactional, finance, and tax matters. We regularly assist clients in the development and financing of renewable energy projects, including geothermal, biomass and biofuels. Our expertise in this area includes partnership investments, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, power purchase agreements, renewable energy credit agreements, project financings and tax credit investment structures.

For more information, visit www.marshall-lueder.com/.

For over 25 years, Chadbourne has been at the forefront of the growth of the biomass industry. Our lawyers have worked on a wide range of biomass projects both in the U.S. and in the Caribbean basin. We have substantial experience advising clients on projects involving hog fuel and black liquor boilers at paper mills and power plants, biogases, rice hulls, peat, poultry litter, wood and other forms of biomass. In 2007 alone, we were engaged in 19 such projects. The Firm has also lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department on various issues pertaining to the biomass industry, such as gasification of waste fuels.

For more information, visit www.chadbourne.com.

Troutman Sanders LLP is an international law firm with more than 650 lawyers and 16 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1897, the firm’s heritage of extensive experience, exceptional responsiveness and an unwavering commitment to service has garnered strong, long-standing relationships with clients across the globe. Troutman Sanders has counseled energy industry clients since the 1920s. Since then, a dynamic renewable energy practice has developed to advise clients at every stage, from investment and tax structuring to development, construction and operation. As your plans for biomass projects emerge, put the energy of our lawyers to work for you.

For more information, visit www.troutmansanders.com.

Black & Veatch’s management consulting division delivers value to midstream gas clients through the application of first-hand industry expertise, leading-edge concepts and techniques, and exceptional program and project execution. Our proven capability delivers worldwide expertise; leveraging the knowledge and capabilities of the former Lukens Energy Group professionals in energy market analysis, risk analysis & mitigation, strategic planning, rate & regulatory support, asset valuation & optimization, and A&D support. If your business is buying, selling, transporting or storing natural gas, Black & Veatch’s knowledgeable staff, sophisticated analysis tools, and wealth of experience can help you maximize your profitability and minimize your risk.

For more information, visit www.bv.com.

Baker & McKenzie is one of the world's leading global law firms, and a long-standing leader in the renewable energy industry. Our global solar team provides a full range of legal services to participants in the solar energy sector and we have represented clients on market-defining transactions throughout the U.S. and the world. Together with our clients, we have raised private and public capital, built projects and manufacturing facilities, sold power, panels and projects, created joint ventures, invested debt and equity, protected secrets, and structured global operations. In addition, Baker & McKenzie's network of more than 3,900 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers in 39 countries makes us uniquely situated to work with investment banks, private equity and venture capital firms to help finance companies and scale globally by leveraging our global financial platform and network.

For more information, visit www.bakernet.com.

Foley & Lardner LLP is a highly regarded, national law firm providing client-focused, interdisciplinary services that result in high-value legal counsel for our clients. Our practice areas encompass the full range of corporate legal services, including corporate governance and compliance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, labor and employment, intellectual property and IP litigation, outsourcing and information technology, and tax. Our attorneys are recognized as insightful thought leaders on these and many other of today's most complex business issues. Through our innovative industry team approach, we strategically blend relevant services with first-hand industry experience. Our unique approach enables us to provide comprehensive, tailored solutions to our clients based upon the needs of their respective industry. Foley is dedicated to the interests of our clients, our people, and our communities. We strive to address their needs and meet their expectations efficiently and effectively - and we do so with integrity, insight, and innovation.

For more information, visit www.foley.com.

Milbank is a leading global legal advisor in renewable energy project development, finance and M&A. We have successfully completed over 180 renewable energy deals, totaling over 9,000 MW of renewable power. Among numerous accolades, Milbank was named the “Legal Advisor of 2008” at the Euromoney/Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards and the “Top Clean Energy Project Finance Legal Advisor to Arrangers in 2008” by New Energy Finance.

For more information, visit www.milbank.com.