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.
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.
Gold Sponsors
The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) is the Australian Government's trade and investment development agency. We help Americans and Australians do business – and offer international investors a single, integrated point-of-contact for all investment inquiries.
Austrade is implementing a three year Clean Energy Trade and Investment Strategy, aimed chiefly at attracting investment into Australia's clean energy sector; to fill capability gaps; to help demonstrate and commercialize technologies; and to help Australia meet its 20% Renewable Energy Target by 2020 (around 80% of our electricity is coal generated).
In 2009 the Australian Government announced a A$4.5 billion Clean Energy Initiative which included a A$1.5 billion Solar Flagships program and almost A$500 million for an Australian Centre for Renewable Energy.
Austrade would like to speak with investors at the event regarding Australian investment opportunities and how we can help - our investment facilitation services are free and commercial-in-confidence.
Clean Energy Initiative: http://www.ret.gov.au/Department/Documents/CEI_Fact_Sheet.pdf
For more information, visit www.austrade.gov.au/invest-in-australia/default.aspx .
Ballard Spahr LLP’s Energy and Project Finance Group assists clients in all aspects of renewable energy project development and finance. We are a national practice with 13 offices nationwide. Our broad experience with the financial markets combined with industry-specific knowledge of business, technology, and regulatory issues allows us to structure creditworthy projects that meet business and tax objectives.
This recent practice focus builds on and complements our historic, and ongoing, traditional energy development work in gas, coal (including coal gasification), waste coal, nuclear, and waste-to-energy power plants, as well as refineries, off-shore drilling rigs, and transmission facilities.
We have substantial experience over 20 years in the non-recourse financing of independent power projects and, during the past few years, of renewable energy projects that depend on federal and state tax subsidies and other forms of governmental support. Key members of our energy team are well known for structuring innovative project deals.
For more information, visit www.ballardspahr.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.
Cooley Godward Kronish is a national law firm for the converging worlds of high technology, high finance and high-stakes litigation. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for the foremost private and public companies across a wide variety of industries and in all major technology fields. Our clients include business organizations, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions, private equity firms, professional services firms and real estate owners and developers. Cooley has approximately 650 attorneys and represents clients in more than 20 industries.
For more information, visit www.cooley.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.
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.
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.
Vintage Filings, a division of PR Newswire, is a full service financial filing and printing firm. With over 4,000 public company clients, Vintage has quickly become the fastest growing EDGAR firm nationwide. With the constant changing requirements in SEC filing regulations for public companies, Vintage Filings works in partnership with their clients to file their documents in an accurate and expeditious fashion. The companies and firms Vintage works with, now more than ever, appreciate the unique service structure and cost saving solutions. Vintage provides full service EDGAR filings and print services in a prompt manner enabling public companies and their attorneys to stay focused on their core business.
Services include:
- EDGAR filings
- XBRL tagging
- Drafting sessions
- Section 16 filings
- Printing services
- Typesetting
- Virtual Data Room
- Boardroom Communications
For more information, visit www.vfilings.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/.
Silver Sponsors
Advantage for Analysts, Inc. structures, analyzes and tracks lease and partnership tax equity financed deals for U.S. renewable energy projects.
Our team of industry experts, enabled with an advanced modeling technology, delivers tailored solutions and transfers capabilities to clients through side-by-side analysis, guidance, and in-depth training.
For more information, visit www.advantageforanalysts.com.
Amonix is the recognized leader in designing and manufacturing concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems that require no water in power production, use land better, and produce more energy per acre than any other solar technology. With the longest track record of real-world CPV deployments in the industry, Amonix is proven to be the best choice for solar power systems in sunny and dry climates. Amonix is headquartered in Seal Beach, California.
For more information, visit www.amonix.com/.
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 solar, wind and biomass projects. 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.
The Churchill Companies is a group of private mortgage banking companies delivering finance and investment solutions to owners and developers of all types of renewable energy installations and commercial real estate properties.
Our group, Churchill Renewable Energy Finance LLC specializes in arranging construction loans, permanent financing, and tax credit equity for today's most unique renewable energy installations. Recently, Churchill completed over $41,250,000 in construction loan financing for over 6.5 megawatts of solar energy systems on a number of buildings including, wineries, warehouses and schools throughout California.
Contact us to learn how Churchill can help you secure financing for your next renewable energy project. Phone: (727) 461-2200, email: dsanderson@churchillfin.com
For more information, visit www.churchillfin.com..
OPDE comprises the companies OPDE, MECASOLAR and PROINSO. The first is specialized in the global promotion and construction of solar photovoltaic plants. MECASOLAR focuses its activity on the design and manufacture of solar trackers and fixed structures. PROINSO is dedicated to providing REC and TRINA modules, fixed structures and tracking, as well as SMA inverters, becoming the first international distributor of these leading global brands in the sector, with over 100 MW of modules and 140 MW of inverters supplied.
OPDE currently employs 300 people. The plants promoted and built directly by OPDE in the 2004-2009 period, have together a total capacity of 115 MW, producing an equivalent annual energy consumption of 75,466 households (225 GWh).
The OPDE Group companies in 2008 exceeded €560 million of consolidated turnover and, currently, the solar photovoltaic company is strategically committed to internationalization. It has tracker factories in the U.S. (California), Greece and Italy, countries where it has it own companies.
For more information, visit www.opde.net.
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/.
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. Rated one of the nation’s best renewable energy law practices by both Chambers and Partners and U.S. News & World Report, we represent 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 services encompass all aspects of power project licensing, local permitting, financing, taxation, real estate, equipment, procurement, construction, project acquisition and project operations. Stoel Rives has advised clients in connection with more than 100 large wind energy projects that were online operational at the end of 2010, representing a total of 11,130 MW of installed capacity in the U.S. and Canada.
For more information, visit www.stoel.com.
Bronze Sponsors
Chambers Group, Inc., a registered DVBE/SBE firm, has a history of working on renewable/alternative energy-related projects.
Renewable energy projects present the full array of environmental analysis and permitting challenges. Chambers Group, Inc. staff can provide ancillary services to consultants and agencies that support such projects. Chambers Group, Inc. has provided staff for many renewable energy projects on public and private lands and they are familiar with the agencies and processes involved. Staff is uniquely capable of providing environmental services including providing studies, evaluating impacts, negotiating and preparing permits, coordinating with regulatory agencies, designing mitigation strategies, and preparing environmental documents that lead to certification.
For more information, visit www.chambersgroupinc.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/.
T. H. Bender and Partners, an international executive search company, was one of the first U.S.- based recruitment firms to establish a renewable power practice. Leveraging 15 years of global search expertise gathered in the High-Tech, Telecommunication and Electronics Assembly sectors, the firm applies an analytical and research-centric approach to recruit industry-experienced professionals for its clients. The firm’s high level of personal commitment and structured due diligence have led to placement and multi-year retention ratios far exceeding industry norms. Profound industry knowledge has helped several of the firm’s clients evolve from early-stage players to industry leaders. Because our firm has been in the solar energy sector from an early stage, our clients are now at the forefront of the most relevant segments defining the industry.
For more information, visit www.thbender.com/.
Luncheon Sponsors
Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, and operates in 8 countries around the globe. With over 6,000 employees, 7 manufacturing subsidiaries and 1.8 million square feet of facility space, Canadian Solar has grown from a 1 million dollar company to over 700 million in the past 8 years. Today, we are the fifth largest solar module manufacturer by module capacity (820 MW) in the world. As a leading vertically integrated provider of ingots, wafers, solar cells, modules and systems, Canadian Solar delivers uncompromising value to its customers around the world. Customers trust Canadian Solar’s world-renowned technical expertise, corporate strength and commitment to sustainable value. Canadian Solar manufactures high-quality products with market leading cost structures, delivering the best possible value.
For more information, visit www.canadian-solar.com/.
Natron Resources, Inc. provides technical and strategic support for the renewable energy industry.
Natron Resources handles all aspects of project design including system design, site evaluation, site engineering, energy modeling, commissioning, and more. Our multi-level approach to design guarantees quality results and lifelong customer satisfaction.
Natron Resources’ expert staff draws on over 100 years of combined experience in concentrating and flat-plate photovoltaics and solar thermal, with some of the largest projects in the world to their credit. Our designs range from R&D and residential scale to 450MW utility projects.
Our customers benefit from optimal design and shorter lead times, our deep expertise in the solar energy industry, and our superior understanding and execution of their requirements - without the additional fixed cost or operating burden of in-house staff. We employ engineering best practices to ensure our systems meet or exceed structural and electrical requirements, as well as the specific requirements of IEEE, UL, NEC, ASCE, and IBC.
For more information, visit www.natronresources.com/.
Breakfast Sponsors
Taylor-DeJongh (TDJ) is an energy investment banking firm with over 29 years of experience in structuring, negotiating and closing power projects globally. The firm has advised sponsors and developers on over 240 power projects and has provided expertise on project development, capital structuring, and financing. TDJ has successfully advised on the structuring and financing of US$70 billion worth of investments in more than 100 countries. The firm also advises clients on corporate finance, capital raising and M&A transactions. TDJ is currently advising project sponsors on several power projects (conventional and renewable) domestically and internationally, and is a financial advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program.
For more information, visit www.taylor-dejongh.com/.