Sponsors
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.
Dickstein Shapiro’s multi-service Energy Practice offers a complete range of services to companies that develop, finance, operate, acquire, sell,
restructure, or manage large energy infrastructure projects, including renewable and conventional power plants, transmission lines, pipelines, and
water desalination plants. The Energy Practice has first-tier capabilities and experience, particularly with respect to federal and state electric and
gas regulation, domestic and international energy project development and finance, M&A, litigation, compliance, market rules, and enforcement
matters, and brings the firm’s leading government relations and policy capabilities to bear for our clients at both the state and federal levels.
For more information, visit www.dicksteinshapiro.com.
Silver Sponsors
Sidley Austin llp, with approximately 1600 lawyers in 17 offices, combines practical experience, extensive knowledge and a commitment to providing quality legal services responsive to the needs of its local, regional, national and international clients. Sidley is recognized for service and responsiveness. Sidley received the most first-tier national rankings of any U.S. law firm in the inaugural U.S.News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings for 2010. BTI Consulting Group has named Sidley as one of only three firms to have been in the top ten of the BTI Client Service rankings every year since the inception of those rankings in 2001, and as number one in three of those years.
For more information, visit www.sidley.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 wind and solar projects emerge, put the energy of our lawyers to work for you.
For more information, visit www.troutmansanders.com.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is uniquely positioned to help companies and their financial partners realize the vast promise of the energy and
clean technology field. The firm’s traditional leadership in the technology sector makes us exceptionally well suited to serve as a strategic advisor
to visionary companies at all stages of development. To take full advantage of this unparalleled platform, we have assembled a highly specialized
team of energy and clean technology attorneys, giving us top-tier expertise in everything from patents to project finance, government affairs to
tax structures. Also setting the firm apart are our longstanding relationships with venture capitalists, private equity firms, and major financial
institutions across the U.S. and abroad, which allow us to serve as a conduit to—and advisor regarding—-a wide variety of funding sources. When
it comes to structuring and closing groundbreaking transactions in the emerging energy economy, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has become
the firm of choice for leading companies, investors, and lenders.
For more information, visit www.wsgr.com.
Bronze Sponsors
Dykema is a national law firm based in the Midwest with offices in California, Illinois, Michigan, Texas and Washington, D.C. Our national practice is focused on serving Fortune 1000 and middle-market companies.
For more information, visit www.dykema.com/.
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.
Hospitality Sponsors
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/.
Siemens Financial Services, Inc. is a leading provider of business-to-business financial services in the United States. The company, based in Iselin,
NJ, enables business expansion for thousands of customers in the healthcare, energy, and industrial sectors by providing customized solutions
that range from equipment financing and working capital to project and export finance, and insurance solutions.
For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/energyfinance.
CAP CO2, LLC. (Wichita, KS) is an asset and technology based company proficient in rejuvenation of older oil fields, profitable transportation and sequestration of anthropogenic CO2 and is seeking to become a leader in commercialization of carbon dioxide mitigation techniques. The 5-member CAP CO2 management team is comprised of experienced bioenergy professionals in industrial CO2 production systems, and reservoir geologists and enhanced oil recovery project leaders. CAP CO2 was incorporated in March of 2007 as a Kansas Limited Liability Company and has been operating full time since January 2008. The company is headquartered in Wichita, and has offices in Lawrence and Lenexa, Kansas. CAP CO2 is developing several commercial CO2 floods, with the first planned CO2 injection to commence in 2010. Three projects are currently leading candidates for commercial scale flooding and have demonstrated an IRR in excess of 25%.
For more information, visit www.cap-co2.com/.
Supporting Sponsors
ArcLight Capital Partners is a leading energy investment Firm. Formed in 2001 by co-founders Daniel R. Revers and Robb E. Turner, the Firm has demonstrated the ability to invest broadly and profitably across the entire energy industry, while protecting against downside risks. The Firm's superior investment performance is the result of the Firm’s conservative investment approach, deep asset-level knowledge, and market experience.
ArcLight has a proven track record of delivering superior returns across the energy industry value chain. ArcLight manages over $6.8 billion in four funds.
For more information, visit www.arclightcapital.com/.
Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs.
For more information, visit www.barcap.com/.
BrightSource Energy, Inc. provides clean, reliable and low cost solar energy for utility and industrial companies worldwide. The BrightSource team combines nearly three decades of experience designing, building, and operating the world’s largest solar energy plants with world-class project development capabilities. BrightSource’s solar plants lead the industry in environmental design and help customers reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Headquartered in Oakland, Calif., BrightSource Energy is a privately held company with operations in the United States, Israel and Australia.
For more information, visit www.brightsourceenergy.com/.
Found in more than 100 countries, Citibank delivers a wide array of banking, lending and investment services to individual consumers, as well as to small businesses with up to $10 million in annual sales. We also offer a full range of financial services products to serve the needs of small and large corporations, governments, and institutional and individual investors. Our Financial Center Network is comprised of local offices and complemented by our electronic delivery systems, including ATMs and the Internet.
For more information, visit www.citibank.com/.
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York.
For more information, visit www.credit-suisse.com/.
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. With 78.896 employees in 72 countries*, Deutsche Bank provides unparalleled financial services throughout the world
and is a leader in Germany and Europe. The bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets.
* As of June 30, 2009
For more information, visit www.db.com.
Dexia is a European bank which concentrates its activity in public sector banking, offering complete banking and financial solutions to local public sector operators, and in retail and commercial banking.
For more information, visit www.dexia.com/.
DZ Bank finance projects in particular in the following sectors: Utilities, Traffic infrastructure, Public Private Partnerships, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing industry. We are present with specialists in Frankfurt, London, New York and Hong Kong. With over 170 financing commitments in the past 12 years our product expertise is clearly proven. We advise project initiators and project companies, providing assistance with conception, structuring and implementation of complex project financing. Alongside Arranging, we underwrite or take up loan participations within the scope of structured, syndicated project financing. In addition, DZ BANK manages long-term project financing within the scope of loan participation.
For more information, visit www.dzbank.com/page_standard.php?id=770.
Energy Investors Funds (EIF) was founded in 1987 as the first private equity fund manager dedicated exclusively to the independent power and electric utility industry and is 100% management-owned. Since that time, EIF has mobilized over $3.4 billion in capital and currently manages four private equity funds. A pioneer in the industry, EIF is the first private equity fund manager to raise a private equity power fund and then invest, recapitalize, and liquidate assets of a fund.
For more information, visit www.eifgroup.com/.
N.V. AMEV, a large Dutch insurer, and VSB Groep, part of which is a Dutch bank, merged their operations in 1990. They were joined later that same year by AG Group – a large Belgian insurer – to complete the first cross-border financial merger. AG Group boasted a strong position in the Belgian insurance market at the time and was market leader in a variety of sectors. However, the international spread of its Operations was fairly limited and its banking interests were minimal, whereas N.V. AMEV was able to contribute a pretty strong position in the Dutch and the international insurance markets.
Fortis has grown substantially since its inception, thanks to both organic growth and acquisitions. Banking operations were strengthened by a series of takeovers. The group has also disposed of several businesses in keeping with its international strategy.
For more information, visit www.fortis.com.
HSH Nordbank AG is a leading wholesale commercial bank focused on energy, real estate and transportation. The Structured Finance Energy team in New York City specializes in renewable energy (e.g., wind, solar, biomass, land-fill gas, and geothermal) and is one of the most active structured financing groups in the U.S. and Canada and has financed several thousand megawatts of renewable energy. On a global basis, HSH Nordbank has already financed 60 MW of solar projects and intends to aggressively build upon this foundation. We pride ourselves on the ability to offer clients with flexible and innovative financial and structuring solutions. The bank is headquartered in northern Germany and has offices all over the world. It has over $200 billion in assets and is rated "A" / "A1" by S&P and Moody's, respectively.
For more information, visit www.hsh-nordbank.com/.
J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, offering innovative and intelligent solutions to clients in more than 100 countries with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available. We have been helping our clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years and we keep their interests foremost in our minds at all times. This combination of product strength, intellectual capital and character sets us apart as an industry leader.
J.P. Morgan is part of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a global financial services firm with assets of $2.0 trillion.
For more information, visit www.jpmorgan.com.
For more information, visit www.johnhancock.com.
Luminate is a technically based management consultancy and leading independent engineering firm providing technical, commercial and
environmental advisory services and solutions to the power, energy and renewables markets. We provide owner’s advisory and project development
assistance; due diligence and independent engineering in support of financing, M&A, and emerging technologies; optimization and corrective
action plans; construction and commissioning monitoring; asset monitoring; environmental management; and conflict and restructuring support to
clients across the stakeholder spectrum. Our experience spans every conventional form of generation and fuel from fossil to renewable.
For more information, visit www.luminatellc.com/.
Mizuho Corporate Bank provides solutions that are a perfect fit for the increasingly sophisticated and diverse financial and corporate strategy needs of major domestic and global companies.
For more information, visit www.mizuhocbk.co.jp/english/.
A global leader in investment banking, Morgan Stanley consistently ranks among the top firms in mergers and acquisitions, equity underwriting and debt financings. Our Investment Banking Division offers unsurpassed financial advisory and capital-raising services to corporations, organizations and governments around the world.
For more information, visit www.morganstanley.com/.
New Energy Capital makes strategic investments and acquisitions in renewable energy assets - including wind, biomass, geothermal, photovoltaic and biofuels, and
distributed generation assets.
NEC investors are a qualified and limited group of institutions and pension funds.
For more information, visit www.newenergycapital.com/.
NORD/LB started out its North American operations in 1991. In well over fifteen years of serving clients through its New York Branch, NORD/LB has achieved substantial growth in size and market share, and has developed a wide range of financial product and service offerings for clients in a significant variety of industries.
We are committed to provide our clients with a customer - focused and innovative financial product range, delivering value-added solutions to complex financing problems.
For more information, visit www.nordlbnewyork.com/.
RES Americas is one of the top renewable energy companies in the country. We have been developing, constructing, owning, and operating renewable energy projects since 1997. With over 3,400 megawatts (MW) of renewable projects constructed, which represents approximately 14% of the operating wind farms in the US, RES Americas is a leader in this growing industry.
We encompass all the necessary expertise to create renewable energy projects; ranging from wind and solar farms and in the near future biomass and energy storage. Our in-house expertise ensures a smooth transition, from one phase to the next, that budgeted costs are met, and the project is completed on time.
For more information, visit www.res-americas.com/.
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Bank is a leading player with 12,000 professionals in over 40 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. SG CIB tailors solutions for issuers and investors by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.
For more information, visit www.sgcib.com/.
unPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA and SPWRB) designs, manufactures and delivers high-performance solar electric systems worldwide for residential, commercial and utility-scale power plant customers. SunPower high-efficiency solar cells and solar panels generate up to 50 percent more power than conventional solar technologies and have a uniquely attractive, all-black appearance. With headquarters in San Jose, Calif., SunPower has offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
For more information, visit www.sunpowercorp.com.
TD Banknorth Project Finance specializes in providing financing solutions for the development,
acquisition and expansion of power generation, renewable fuels and energy, and related infrastructure
projects throughout North America. Based in the U.S., TD Banknorth Project Finance is part of TD
Banknorth, N.A., a leading banking and financial services company, with over $40 billion in assets.
With our experienced, diverse staff consisting of everyone from engineers to developers to private equity
fund managers, we are uniquely positioned to provide project financing to investors in these increasingly
important business sectors. Whether acting as the sole lender, or as an Agent Bank with a substantial hold
position, we are ready to help you fund your project, whatever the scope and stage it may be in.
For more information, visit www.tdbanknorth.com.
UBS is the leading global wealth manager, a top tier investment banking and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset managers.
For more information, visit www.ubs.com/.
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $265 billion in assets, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the 6th largest commercial bank in the United States. The company operates 2,851 banking offices and 5,175 ATMs, and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.
For more information, visit www.usbank.com/.
WestLB AG is a European commercial bank with firm roots in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany´s largest federal state. With total assets of € 286.5 billion as at December 31, 2007, it is one of Germany´s leading financial services providers. It is the central institution for the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg, and as an internationally operating commercial bank it acts as their link to the global financial markets. Working in close partnership with the savings banks, WestLB offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on lending, structured finance, capital market and private equity products, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB employs 6,147 staff (as of December 31, 2007).
For more information, visit www.westlb.de/cms/sitecontent/westlb/westlb_de/en.html/.