Sponsors
Kaye Scholer is an international law firm with approximately 500 lawyers in nine 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/.
Platinum Sponsors
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.
Chadbourne & Parke LLP is a franchise name in the independent power business. More than 70 lawyers work full-time in the project finance
group, making it one of the largest such groups of any US law firm. The group has worked on projects in more than 80 countries, and is ranked
number one in the US renewable energy market (in a shared ranking with Milbank) by the prestigious Chambers directory in London based on
year-round interviewing of corporate law departments and peers at other firms. Chadbourne is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York
and has other offices in Washington, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Almaty, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, Istanbul, Dubai and London.
For more information, visit www.chadbourne.com.
Natural Power provides Practical Consulting, Management Services and Product Innovations across the wind, wave, tidal and biomass arena. Employing over 250 people worldwide, the company has worked on more than 25GW of client projects across the Americas and Europe, whilst also providing extensive due diligence services on portfolios and projects on behalf of major lenders, investors and financial institutions. Based in Saratoga Spring, NY the Natural Power US team have been providing services to the local industry for the past 5 years including due diligence support for lenders & developers, technical wind assessment & plant design support, offshore wind project siting & design, as well as the sales and operation of our proprietary ZephIR lidar system for remote wind assessment onshore and offshore. The North American team brings decades of experience working within the local market and are active participants in industry trade groups such as AWEA and CANWEA. Natural Power – “the international turn-to experts in renewable energy.”
For more information, visit www.naturalpower.com/.
At Stoel Rives (www.stoel.com) we’ve been pioneers in renewable energy law for nearly 30 years. With over 115 of our attorneys dedicated
specifically to renewable energy and sustainability practices, independent experts consistently rate us among the top renewable energy law firms in
the United States. We have represented major national and international energy developers and operators in wind, biofuels, ocean & hydropower,
biomass, geothermal and solar energy projects throughout the United States and abroad. From project finance, tax and construction contracting to
interconnection, transmission and power purchase negotiations – we have the experience to guide clients in any aspect of an energy project.
For more information, visit www.stoel.com.
Gold Sponsors
3TIER helps the global energy market manage renewable energy risk. A pioneer of weather risk markets, Mr. Malinow started Enron's North American weather marketing effort in 1998 and founded Element Re in 2000. With offices serving North America, Europe, India, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim, 3TIER has global reach with products and services spanning renewable energy project feasibility, energy marketing, and asset management.
For more information, visit www.3tier.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.
Foley & Lardner LLP is a national law firm that provides a full array of legal services to assist the rapidly changing and ever more complicated energy industry. The firm’s experience in the industry dates to its origin and has continued through every stage of development. Our energy practice is very broad and diversified, delivering comprehensive solutions and the leading-edge tools required to serve regulated and unregulated industry participants in this increasingly competitive market. Foley’s wind and solar practices are part of our national Energy Industry Team, advising clients in the development, investment, acquisition, construction, and financing of renewable energy facilities throughout the United States and Canada. Our team-based approach, innovative technology, and focus on value and client service are continually recognized by our clients and the legal industry.
For more information, visit www.foley.com.
Loeb & Loeb LLP is a multi-service law firm with more than 300 attorneys in five offices in the U.S., including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Nashville and Washington, DC, as well as a representative office in Beijing that services a rapidly growing number of Asian clients. The firm focuses on select core industries and practice areas, rather than endeavoring to be all things to all clients. Loeb & Loeb's Energy Group assists clients on a broad range of energy-related matters ranging from sophisticated transactions and strategic counseling to complex litigation and rate cases before federal and state agencies. With a dynamic combination of transactional, litigation and regulatory capabilities "under one roof," we meet the diverse needs of our energy clients, including issues related to regulation of renewable, electric, nuclear and natural gas enterprises, finance and securities, project development, corporate, M&A, litigation, antitrust, environmental, real estate and tax. Our extensive experience and knowledge of the various energy sectors, the regulatory environment and the competitive landscape, enable us to deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges confronting the energy industry today.
For more information, visit www.loeb.com.
Luce Forward is at the forefront of renewable energy. We are industry experts offering the complete spectrum of legal services to clients across the industry, from the sponsors, developers, power purchasers, and financing sources of renewable energy projects, to the manufacturers and providers of new technologies that serve the sector. Our renewable energy practice group combines the talents of world class attorneys from varying disciplines to provide comprehensive solutions to the industry's diverse and complex legal problems.
For more information, visit www.luce.com/crest/.
Orrick’s energy and projects practice comprises nearly 150 lawyers located across the globe, representing clients worldwide. We are noted for
our leading practices in energy project development and finance, governmental energy funding, public private partnerships, and venture capital
and emerging company representation in the clean tech and renewable energy sectors.
For more information, visit www.orrick.com/practices/global/energy.asp.
Reznick Group is ranked among the top 20 accounting firms in the United States, providing accounting, tax and business advisory services to clients nationwide. In addition to other industries, Reznick Group offers a broad array of accounting, tax and business advisory services specific to the renewable energy sector - with services tailored to investors, infrastructure developers and producers of renewable energy power.
For more information, visit www.reznickgroup.com.
Serving clients in every major international financial center, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates is one of the leading
law firms in the world, with 23 offices and approximately 2,000 attorneys. Our diversified practice enables us to offer solutions to the most
challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the specific legal advice clients need to compete most effectively in a
global business environment. We represent approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial
and governmental entities, high-technology startup companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions, advising on a wide variety of
high-profile transactions, regulatory matters, and litigation and controversy issues.
For more information, visit www.skadden.com/.
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 900 attorneys among 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its energy practice is a particular strength of the firm. Our attorneys bring 30 years of industry experience, innovation, and a track record of success in regulatory and legislative matters, transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project development, finance, labor and litigation. In addition to representation on traditional energy generation and transmission resources, our experience covers virtually all resources in the renewable energy sector, including wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biomass. From advocating for and advising on new energy policies to assisting clients in structuring and closing financings and acquisitions/dispositions, negotiating power purchase contracts and providing counsel on cutting-edge tax matters, Winston & Strawn has the experience, capabilities, and integrated legal teams to guide clients through today’s dynamic energy environment.
For more information, visit www.winston.com/.
Reception Sponsors
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/.
Silver Sponsors
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has one of the world’s leading project finance and renewable energy practices. We represent developers,
lenders, equity investors, manufacturers, technology companies and other sector participants in a broad array of energy and infrastructure projects,
with a focus on the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and renewable energy companies.
Our team has significant experience across all renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biofuel and hydroelectric
projects and over the past year we have been lead counsel on the three largest renewable energy projects financed in the United States.
For more information, visit www.akingump.com.
Founded in 2004, CP Energy provides financial advisory and asset management services to project sponsors and institutional investors in the energy sector. In the solar energy segment, CP Energy has experience in financing distributed generation portfolios as well as utility scale projects. CP Energy’s product focus is (i) financing of development stage projects, projects under construction and operating projects; (ii) tax advantaged project financing / M&A; (iii) corporate financings / M&A for project sponsors; and (iii) select earlier stage technology financings. Since 2004, CP Energy has advised the tax equity, lender or project sponsor in connection with the financing or disposition of renewable energy projects with an aggregate nameplate capacity in excess of 6,000 MW, and a value in excess of $3.5 billion.
For more information, visit www.cpglb.com/.
Building strong and substantial client relationships was and remains the compass for DLA Piper’s business strategy and future development. With 4,200 lawyers located in 30 countries and 76 offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the US, DLA Piper is a global law firm positioned to help companies with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice areas than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our client commitment is also our brand – everything matters when it comes to the way we serve and interact with our clients. If it matters to them, it matters to us.
For more information, visit www.dlapiper.com/.
For over a decade, Fredrikson & Byron’s Renewable Energy Group has played a leading role in the development, financing, and acquisition of wind projects in the heart of America’s wind corridor. We’ve helped develop more than 1,000
MW of projects through the United States, and are assisting in another 6,000 MW under development. We work with commercial and community wind developers, turbine manufacturers, and finance companies to successfully complete development and financing of wind projects, as well as acquire renewable energy assets throughout the United States. Our work extends to the supply chain, where we help companies make strategic vertical acquisitions of manufacturing companies (turbines, blades, towers, and gearboxes) to advance their interests in the market.
For more information, visit www.fredlaw.com/index.htm.
GE Energy Financial Services' experts invest globally across the capital spectrum in essential, long-lived, and capital-intensive energy assets that meet the world's energy needs. In addition to capital, GE Energy Financial Services offers the best of GE.'s technical know-how, technology innovation, financial strength, and rigorous risk management. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, the GE business unit helps its customers and GE grow through new investments, strong partnerships, and optimization of its approximately $20 billion in assets.
For more information, visit www.geenergyfinancialservices.com.
KeyBanc Capital Markets provides a complete suite of corporate and investment banking services to clients. Investment banking services include mergers and acquisition advisory, equity and debt underwriting, syndicated finance products, research and trading. KeyBanc Capital Markets focuses primarily on emerging and middle-market companies in the Energy, Industrial, Consumer & Retail, Real Estate, and Healthcare sectors. Clients benefit from our deep expertise across our focus industries and our access to partners in private equity and debt capital markets, which allow us to deliver a full range of financing options to our clients.
For more information, visit www.key.com/html/A.html.
Mayer Brown is a leading global law firm with offices in major cities across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Our experience in the solar sector started more than twenty years ago when we worked on Solar Electric Generating System IX (SEGS) in California, one of the first large-scale solar projects in the United States. Our lawyers have represented financiers, sponsors and other project participants on important and cutting edge solar energy projects and financing structures across the globe.
Whether it is utility-scale concentrated solar thermal, photovoltaic, rooftop distributed generation or other solar technology, we have the industry knowledge and experience needed to get deals done anywhere in the world.
We offer local market expertise on a global basis, with offices in each of the major energy and financial centers around the world - London, New York, Hong Kong, and Houston.
For more information, visit www.mayerbrown.com/energy/index.asp?nid=10912.
Morgan Lewis combines relevant, practical industry knowledge and comprehensive legal capabilities in advising companies engaged in the explosive growth of renewable energy, clean technology, and corporate sustainability opportunities. We advise utilities, sophisticated investors, project developers, emerging businesses, and other major entities across the energy sector as well as non-energy companies seeking to address their energy needs and sustainability practices. Our team provides a national resource for new and mature companies, advising in areas such as: renewable energy project development and procurement; mergers and acquisitions; project finance and tax strategies; venture capital and early stage financing; novel transactional and regulatory issues; securities law compliance, including climate change-related disclosures; intellectual property; permitting and environmental issues; real estate; antitrust; and employment and executive compensation strategies.
For more information, visit www.morganlewis.com.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF), is a leading provider of title insurance, mortgage services, spe¬cialty insurance and information
services. FNF is the nation’s largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters that collectively issue more title insurance
policies than any other title company in the United States. Robert Simon, Andrea Kremen and Fred Glassman specialize in the energy and project
finance title insurance sector. They are resident in Fidelity National Title Insurance Company’s New York City office. This team has worked on
hundreds of energy and project finance transactions, ranging from financings (private and government-backed) to acquisitions and dispositions,
ground-up constructions and various other types of transactions.
For more information, visit www.fntic.com/.
Vestas is the world leader in supplying high-tech wind power systems, and a preferred provider of wind turbines, services and solutions in North America. Since 1979, Vestas has an industry-leading installed base of more than 44,000 wind turbines in 67 countries. Vestas, which employs more than 3,000 people in the United States, sold its first wind turbine in North America in 1981 and since has supplied more than 12,000 to this market. Vestas’ North American manufacturing operations are located in Colorado while its technology research centers are in Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado. Vestas’ North American headquarters is located in Portland, Ore., while its global headquarters is in Aarhus, Denmark.
For more information, visit www.vestas.com/.
Bronze Sponsors
Competitive Energy Insight (CEI), established in 1997, has developed a suite of mature and highly software products for the analysis of investments in renewable energy applications including biofuels and bio chemicals projects, and all areas of power. We both license these models for your direct use, and use them broadly in our project development consulting practice serving as a bench to support your in-house team. All of the EconExpert tools are Excel-based, making them completely customizable, auditable and adding all of the features of Excel to EconExpert’s powerful features and architecture. Importantly, the EconExpert Models are far more than spreadsheets. Behind each model is powerful Visual Basic programming that provides highly advanced menu/wizard driven functionality taking Excel and your analysis capability to a completely new level. Standardized, accurate and applicable from simple screening to bank quality/investment grade analysis of virtually any project investment, acquisition or divestiture, EconExpert has been applied to literally billions of dollars of energy project investments including on-site generation applications, renewable energy projects and large multi-hundred million dollar central power station investments.
For more information, visit www.CEInsight.com.
DNV is an independent foundation with nearly 150 years of experience helping investors understand and manage technical risks. DNV has supported wind industry investors for over 25 years and provides a full range of services throughout the project life cycle. Our services include independent engineering and due diligence, resource assessment, development assistance, owner’s engineering, accredited testing and instrumentation, wind turbine engineering, type and project certification, marine advisory services, HSE and asset risk management.
Our independent engineering and due diligence services support investors and owners during project financing, mergers and acquisitions, portfolio financing, and other transactions. Before, during and after project construction, our team’s extensive experience with all aspects of wind energy engineering, including transmission and grid integration, provides a single source for onshore or offshore wind energy project technical advisory services.
For more information, visit www.dnv.com/.
GL Garrad Hassan is a member of the Germanischer Lloyd AG (GL) group of companies, and is part of GL’s renewable energy consulting business, trading under the GL Garrad Hassan brand. Although the GL Garrad Hassan name is new, the business has a rich heritage from renewable energy specialists within GL, including: Garrad Hassan, Windtest, Helimax and Noble Denton. GL Garrad Hassan provides an integrated global service, with more than 650 staff in over 40 countries, offering services and software products across the entire project lifecycle. GL Garrad Hassan is the leading provider of technical and engineering services, software products and training for onshore and offshore wind, as well as the wave, tidal and solar sectors. With experience gained over three decades, GL Garrad Hassan has an unsurpassed technical understanding of renewable energy technologies and projects.
For more information, visit www.garradhassan.com/.