Kaye Scholer LLP has one of the nation’s leading practices devoted to wind power and other renewable energy transactions. Since 1998, the firm has worked full-time in this sector and is dedicated to closing transactions efficiently and cost-effectively. Kaye Scholer represents many of the industry’s leaders and takes pride in having successfully closed the purchase, sale, development or financing of over 2000 megawatts of deals throughout the US on behalf of developers, sponsors, lenders and equity providers.

Founded in 1893, Alston & Bird is a major U.S. law firm with an extensive energy practice, covering both conventional and renewable technologies. Our energy infrastructure group offers project development and finance, policy, technology and carbon management capabilities to the renewable energy industry on a fully integrated basis.

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. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 69 locations across 33 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services.

Foley & Lardner LLP , a national law firm with offices throughout the United States, Brussels, and Tokyo, is broadly recognized as having one of the leading wind energy development and finance legal practices. Our attorneys have experience assisting with joint ventures, investments and acquisitions of wind projects; power purchase agreements; turbine supply and construction contracts; and project financings, including Section 45 Production Tax Credit Financing Structures. Our wind energy work is part of our national energy industry practice advising clients in the development, investment, acquisition, construction and financing of electric generating facilities throughout the United States, involving various technologies and corporate, tax and regulatory structures. Our broad-based energy industry knowledge assists our clients with successfully completing renewable energy transactions and acquisitions. For more information, visit WindEnergyAttorneys.com.

Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP is an international law firm with over 600 attorneys and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Hartford, Northern New Jersey, and Shanghai. The firm was formed in 2006 through a merger between Thelen Reid & Priest LLP and Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP. With a combined history of over 80 years, we have served a distinguished roster of clients, including many Fortune 500 companies, leading privately-owned enterprises, public institutions, and partnerships. The combination of these two organizations into a single Am Law 50 firm positions the firm to offer top-tier legal services in the capital markets through our finance practices in the areas of real estate, private equity, energy, infrastructure, and projects, as well as in the technology, media, communications, and intellectual property sectors. In addition, the firm's commercial litigation practice frequently handles cases related to antitrust, toxic tort, and class actions, as well as those involving technology, patents, intellectual property, construction, and employment law. The firm is noted for having the preeminent construction practice in the United States, and is a recognized leader in the infrastructure and energy industries. Our attorneys and practices are consistently recognized for excellence by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The American Lawyer, and other industry publications.

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.

Fieldstone is a independent, employee owned boutique investment banking firm providing financial advisory services to the energy and infrastructure industries, specializing in power (gas, wind, hydro, biomass, coal), biofuels (ethanol, biodiesel) and pipelines (both gas and refined product). Founded in 1990, Fieldstone advises energy entrepreneurs and corporations on private capital raises, leveraged buyouts and mergers and acquisitions globally. In the wind industry, Fieldstone's experience includes buy and sell-side M&A transactions for wind projects, wind developers and portfolios or wind assets, as well as capital raising utilizing tax and strategic equity and senior non-recourse debt. As an advisory firm, we are never biased in favor of a specific product or capital structure for any transaction, thereby enabling Fieldstone to provide objective, unbiased, and independent advice specifically developed for a client's long-term needs.

HSH Nordbanke Nordbank is a strong commercial bank in its core region of Northern Europe. We are deeply rooted in our home market of Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein and market leader in the corporate customer segment. We offer our customers an innovative range of products and services coupled with individual advice in all business areas, including private clients. We operate at global level in selected growth markets, with the main focus on transportation and real estate. We are a leading provider of financial services in the transport sector and the world’s largest provider of ship finance. We are one of Germany’s top three banks for real estate and are gaining international recognition as a number one address in the key metropolitan regions of Europe and the USA. We are represented in 17 foreign locations in the Baltic Sea region, South-East Asia and in the key international financial centers of New York, London and Luxembourg.

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is a global law firm with a market-leading Wind Energy Practice. We represent owners, developers, manufacturers, utilities, lenders and other investors in all aspects of structuring, negotiating and documenting wind power transactions. Our team’s recent experience includes advising on the development, sale, acquisition and financing of wind power projects with an aggregate installed capacity of over 3,000 megawatts.

Since 1949, Baker & McKenzie has provided sophisticated advice and legal services to many of the world's most dynamic and successful organizations. Helping clients understand and thrive in diverse legal, political, social and economic systems made us one of the world's largest law firms - and the first to be truly global.

We are a network of more than 3,200 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers and 5,500 other professionals and staff in 70 offices in 38 countries. We have the knowledge, experience and resources to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services clients require to respond to both international and local needs.

At Baker & McKenzie we have worked on market-defining transactions and can assist you in all phases of wind project development, including corporate and tax structuring (including Section 45 structures), financing, joint ventures, acquisition of land rights and transmission rights, FERC and other regulatory matters, interconnection issues, renewable energy credits, insurance and environmental issues. Our attorneys have drafted and negotiated power purchase agreements, construction and development contracts, real estate agreements, sale and purchase agreements, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, interconnection and transmission line agreements, and turbine supply, construction and term loan financing agreements.

With our broad scope of practice and international resources, we are uniquely qualified to respond to your business needs.

For more information about our practice, please contact Pauline Doohan (312.861.2811 or pauline.e.doohan@bakernet.com) or Skip Rankin (212.626.4740 or clyde.e.rankin@bakernet.com).

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, a preeminent global law firm, provides a full range of financial and business legal services to many of the world’s leading financial, industrial and commercial enterprises, as well as governments, institutions and individuals. Milbank prides itself in having one of the largest and most experienced project finance groups among the world’s major law firms. As the global leader in project financing, we bring our wealth of experience to the wind power sector to deliver world-class, cost-effective legal services to our wind energy clients. Milbank has represented new developers as well as some of the largest sponsors in the industry and have been involved in some of largest construction and project financings of wind energy projects to date. Our firm-wide team of wind energy attorneys in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, draws on the experience of lawyers within the firm in the areas of energy regulation, tax, real estate, bankruptcy, litigation, anti-trust and licensing to provide tailored legal solutions to match the needs of our clients. As evidence of our continuing prominence in the international project finance field, Milbank received the 2005 Chambers and Partners award for USA Projects. We have been recognized by Project Finance International as the only law firm having a recognized leadership in North and South America, Europe and Asia. These top rankings reflect Milbank’s commitment to serving clients worldwide and our strength in executing complex project financings. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with offices in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing.

Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale ("NORD/LB") is a registered public institution in Germany, with offices in Hannover, Braunschweig, Magdeburg and Schwerin. Headquartered in Hannover, NORD/LB Group operates in the banking and public finance sector in Germany and maintains foreign branches in London, New York, Shanghai and Singapore. NORD/LB is a leading project finance lender in the renewables sector with lending commitments to over 4,000MW of renewable generation capacity globally, of which over 1,000MW is in North America. The New York Branch has 10 people dedicated to power and renewable project finance in the Americas and has actively been involved in wind financing since 2003.

Stoel Rives is a leading law firm serving the renewable energy industry. The firm’s 40-member renewable energy team has represented developers and investors in all legal aspects of wind energy projects throughout the U.S. and in Canada. For more information, please contact Peter Mostow at 415-617-8968 or pdmostow@stoel.com.

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 900 attorneys among nine offices in Chicago, Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York City, Paris, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. The exceptional depth and geographic reach of its resources enables Winston & Strawn to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. Winston & Strawn has broad experience in connection with the development, financing and operation of wind energy projects, including regulatory, environmental, project documentation, equity and debt financing and tax. To learn more about Winston & Strawn, visit www.winston.com.

Fidelity National Title Insurance Company (FNTIC), is one of the nation's leading real estate service companies providing title insurance and other title-related services.

Fredrikson & Byron is a 200-attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Iowa, London and Monterrey, Mexico. The firm's primary areas of practice include banking, corporate, employment, franchise, government relations, healthcare, intellectual property, international, litigation, real estate, securities, tax and wind energy. We serve a broad range of clients, including multinational corporations, public companies, privately-held businesses, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and family businesses. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com.

Serving the unique needs of national customers is the mission of Stewart National Title Services (NTS). With locations in twenty cities nationwide, we deliver custom solutions for every transaction. In partnership with our growing network of over 9,500 issuing offices and agencies, NTS has the flexibility and capacity to service the most discriminating customers. www.stewart-nts.com