PREVIOUS US DEV FIN PARTNERS
Milbank
https://www.milbank.com/en/Renewable Energy
Our Renewable Energy team provides our clients with unmatched wind, solar, biomass, biofuels, geothermal and hydroelectric energy experience. Clients seek our counsel on innumerable transactions ranging from the financing of the world’s largest land-based wind farm and the first offshore wind farms in the world to the development of both photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar plant (CSP) projects.
Our renewable energy expertise draws on multiple practice groups across the globe, with dedicated renewable energy teams based in each of our US offices, as well as in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, São Paulo, Singapore and Tokyo. Together we bring extensive knowledge in all aspects of development, financing, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects plus corporate finance, M&A, restructurings and workouts. Our specialists within the US have an in-depth understanding of Production Tax Credits (PTC), Investment Tax Credits (ITC) and other tax incentives available for renewable energy projects and related qualifications and requirements across the country in order to effectively structure tax equity transactions. We routinely represent project developers, sponsors, lenders, investors, and other parties across the whole renewable energy value chain, including the acquisition, divestiture and financing of portfolios of renewable assets.
FTI Consulting
https://www.fticonsulting.com/Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting has grown to become a market-leading global consulting firm that brings together distinct capabilities and experts to serve as the trusted advisor to clients when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Each practice is a leader in its own right, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle—from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected crises and dynamic environments.
Wilson Sonsini
https://www.wsgr.com/en/For more than six decades, the firm has represented the technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation. Today, Wilson Sonsini is synonymous with ushering promising, innovative companies through their business life cycle. As their clients have grown, so has their firm. The firm now represent many of the largest companies in the world—and thousands of the smallest ones, too.
STEM
https://www.stem.com/As the first public pure play smart energy storage company, Stem delivers and operates battery storage solutions that maximize renewable energy generation and help build a cleaner, more resilient grid. STEM inc. customers include Fortune 500 companies, project developers, utilities and independent power producers. Stem’s market-leading Athena software helps lower energy costs and solve renewable intermittency across the world’s largest network of distributed energy storage systems.
Troutman Pepper
https://www.troutman.com/Ranked nationally as a top-tier practice, we proactively identify and manage the challenges posed by both federal and state regulations for utilities and other major stakeholders. With the knowledge of industry insiders, we help clients develop and bring new opportunities to market.
Clients such as national and regional utilities, generators, ISOs, RTOs, and pipeline and holding companies rely on our team to resolve critical regulatory matters as they arise. We work closely with clients to develop innovative solutions to their most pressing business challenges, and have handled matters whose outcomes have, or will, alter how energy is valued, distributed, stored, and sold. For example, we assisted a utility with creating a methodology to value distributed generation, and helped another client change federal regulatory policy to allow for the first grid-scale battery storage unit to participate fully in a regional energy market. Clients engage us for guidance and strategic direction throughout their business cycle to develop, plan, and execute upon new and emerging opportunities for growth.
Several of our attorneys have in-house government experience, which enables us to better anticipate the potential outcomes and barriers to our clients’ goals. Our work before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state utility commissions includes the full spectrum of permitting, licensing, rulemaking, enforcement, litigation, and oversight.
We assist in the resolution of competition-related issues such as mergers and acquisitions, market-based rate authority for generators, organized RTO and ISO markets, OATT and transmission compliance, capacity and ancillary services, and issues related to the nation’s bilateral energy markets. At the state level, we are deeply experienced in handling fuel cost recovery proceedings, certification cases for new generation including new nuclear generation, generator interconnections, rate cases, RFPs for purchase power and renewable resources, integrated resource planning, and qualifying facility contracting processes.
Our team is recognized as a “National Top-Tier” Energy Practice and was named “Practice Group of the Year” for 2021 by Law360. In addition, we received the 2023 “Law Firm of the Year” distinction for Energy Law in U.S. News - Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” edition, and ranked nationally by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 guides for our work, including transactional, regulatory litigation matters involving both conventional and renewable resources. Public Utilities Fortnightly recognized our attorneys as “Groundbreaking Lawyers.”
REV Renewables
https://www.revrenewables.com/Formed by LS Power to accelerate investment in the energy transition, REV Renewables is on the front lines of transforming our electric system. We are passionate about deploying renewable energy and storage solutions to where they are needed most. Our multi-disciplinary team and unique approach to project development and commercialization enable us to deliver solutions that others cannot.
As owner/operators, we manage projects through the entire lifecycle. Our stewardship begins at site identification and continues through development, construction, ongoing operations, and ultimately decommissioning. With a differentiated platform and long-term view, we can serve our communities and customers for generations to come.
Together, we are building a better tomorrow, today.
Foss & Company
https://fossandco.com/about/team/Since 1983, Foss & Company has been a reliable resource, working with institutional clients around the country to find the best investment solutions to meet their strategic tax planning needs. These tax credit solutions result in low-risk, sustainable options with predictable, risk adjusted returns. With over $8 billion in equity raised, Foss & Company is a full-service advisor with proven expertise navigating the world of tax credit investment, resulting in accessible and efficient tax advantage investments.
CohnReznick
https://www.cohnreznick.com/Recognizing the emerging market forces that drive opportunity. That’s what sets CohnReznick’s industry-leading advisors apart. Our integrated team of advisory, assurance, and tax professionals is committed to helping our clients optimize performance, manage risk, and maximize stakeholder value.
CohnReznick is firmly rooted in our purpose: creating opportunities for our people, making a difference for our clients, and strengthening our communities. Despite rapid growth, we retain an entrepreneurial spirit and culture driven by a commitment to superior client service and giving back.
Great Bay Renewables
https://www.greatbayrenewables.com/Great Bay Renewables (“GBR”) was formed to satisfy a need for flexible capital in renewable energy. GBR utilizes a royalty financing structure, common in other industries but innovative in the renewable energy sector. With this novel approach to financing renewable energy projects, GBR is able to quickly scale its investments while providing much needed capital to those building and operating wind, solar, and other renewable energy projects. Traditional means of financing these projects, including debt, taxequity and common equity, are not keeping up with the requirements of a rapidly expanding industry. Our mission is to align ourselves with leaders in the deployment of renewable energy projects through this unique financing structure. GBR’s investment support can be applied at any stage of a renewable energy project, including project development, construction, operations, capital improvements, project re-powering, and acquisitions. Through GBR’s investments, the company has created royalties from the project portfolios of leading U.S. renewable energy development companies and from existing projects that have already achieved commercial operation. Great Bay is backed by Altius Renewable RoyaltiesCorp. (TSX: ARR/ATRWF) and funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO)
Cirrus Advisors
https://www.cirrusadvisors.com/Cirrus Advisors, LLC is a trusted partner providing state and local consulting services to renewable energy developers and operators. We help companies manage property tax and sales & use tax liabilities, maximize public funding opportunities for investments, and enhance public-private partnerships in local communities.
Fluence Energy
https://fluenceenergy.com/Why We’re Here
Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. We believe in solving problems, building lasting partnerships with our customers, and the importance of the entire power ecosystem in forging a path to making a sustainable future certain.
Energy storage and digitalization is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.
Fluence brings proven energy storage products and services, and digital applications for renewables and storage to support the modernization of our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.
NHOA Energy
https://nhoa.energy/We design, industrialize and produce utility-scale Energy Storage Systems, granting world-class power supply and the delivery of renewable energy into the grid.
We leverage our technology edge, superior engineering, strategic partnerships and global procurement, to tailor the most competitive solutions.
Nexus Development Capital
https://www.nexusdevcap.com/We provide developers with early-stage capital
We understand the development process and risks at early stages of development. We provide equity that allows development teams to prove out their business model and grow into larger pools of capital.
We are aligned partners
In addition to capital, we provide expertise to help a development team grow. Once the business plan is more mature, we then assist the developer to source the best permanent capital option among an expanded investor universe, maximizing value to the developer.
We work with many technologies
We analyze and execute opportunities across a wide range of sustainable technologies. Executed transactions in fiber processing, recycling, carbon capture, and RNG.
The Nexus PMG advantage
Nexus Dev Cap is partnered with Nexus PMG, a sustainable infrastructure project development, engineering, and operations company. Investment decisions and ongoing operational guidance leverage the expertise gained by decades of advisory, project development, and asset management experience.
Marathon Capital
https://www.marathoncapital.com/Founded in 1999, Marathon Capital has been involved in many pivotal energy transactions and company expansions in the areas of M&A, capital raising, project finance and tax equity advisory. We serve companies, developers, investors and sponsors in jurisdictions around the world. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Canada, New York City and San Francisco. Representative offices are maintained in Houston and Brazil.
CIBC Capital Markets
https://cibccm.com/en/CIBC Capital Markets is a leading provider of M&A advisory, debt and equity financing, corporate banking, trading, hedging and research.
Solid banking partnerships are built over time and require a foundation of trust, understanding and agile support to help you take advantage of market opportunities as they arise. Aligned with our firm-wide promise to empower our clients to achieve their ambitions, we bring the full extent of our capabilities to your goals, as together we innovate new ways to create value.
Erthos
https://www.erthos.com/Founded in 2019, Erthos, Inc. is a Tempe, Arizona based solar company with a mission to transform the utility-scale solar industry by dramatically reducing the cost to build solar power plants. Its executives and management hail from companies including Tesla, Intel, General Electric, Sterling & Wilson, Wärtsilä, First Solar, Canadian Solar, SMA, and Solar Frontier. Erthos has introduced Earth Mount Solar™ PV to the market, a new way to build solar power plants by eliminating structural steel and installing solar modules directly on the earth. Complimenting this architecture, Erthos has developed an autonomous cleaning robot that sweeps the solar array each night and captures module-level DC health data. All in, Earth Mount Solar PV can be built for less cost, in half the time, on one third the land. For more information and to view the Erthos introductory video, visit www.erthos.com.
Ascend Analytics
https://www.ascendanalytics.com/Ascend Analytics is an innovative software and consulting company at the forefront of the renewable energy transition. Founded in 2002, we are rapidly growing and have organically grown to a staff of 100. Our solutions are used by well over a 100 energy companies engaged in transforming power supply in North America and Europe. Ascend is owned and managed by a seasoned team with decades of software and energy expertise.
Cantor Fitzgerald
https://www.cantor.com/At Cantor Fitzgerald, we want to be a leading example of how to conduct business responsibly and sustainably. We aim to build upon our existing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework and deliver real and sustainable value for our stakeholders and the communities we operate in.
Cantor Fitzgerald actively strives towards the highest ESG standards throughout our organization. In practice, this means constantly honing our operational efficiency measures. It also means providing first-rate client services and supporting the varying needs of our workforce.
Sustainability Statement
At Cantor Fitzgerald, sustainability is a key driver of our engagement with clients and how we conduct business. We provide investment banking services to companies, as well as risk management, research, sales, and trading.
Our commitment to sustainability reflects the responsibility we have to our stakeholders — our clients, our employees, and local communities — to build long-term value. Our ability to do that depends on investing in our people, managing responsibly, and supporting local initiatives.
We run our business with a culture of collective accountability. We hold ourselves to high standards. As a responsible corporate citizen, Cantor Fitzgerald is committed to meeting the highest standards of ethics, integrity, honesty, fairness, and professionalism in every respect, without exception, and at all times.
Achieving our business goals is critical to our success. We also believe the way in which we achieve them is just as important.
PV Hardware
https://pvhardware.com/At PVH we know that one product cannot be the solution for all needs. That is why we have developed the widest range of solar trackers and structures in the market. Thanks to our different products, we can adapt in an optimal way to different terrains, inclinations, climatologies, always offering the lowest LCOE, an adjusted CAPEX and OPEX and the maximum efficiency of the solar plant.
Our solutions for independent row, dual-row, multi-row or our cost-effective fixed structure, allows the adaptation to any configuration and any type of module with security, reliability and in record time.
Fundamental Renewables
https://www.fundamental.com/renewablesFundamental Renewables (“FR”) is the clean energy investment arm of Fundamental that is focused on providing specialty finance solutions for the development, construction and operation of renewable energy projects across the United States. FR’s strategy seeks to provide consistent current income, downside protection, and attractive risk-adjusted returns, while delivering inherent environmental benefits. With a flexible approach and streamlined process, they can lend across all stages of the project lifecycle and deliver customized solutions to an underserved segment of the market.
CIT
https://www.cit.com/CIT is a division of First Citizens Bank, the largest family-controlled bank in the United States, continuing a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. Parent company, First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $100 billion in assets. The company’s commercial banking segment brings a wide array of best-in-class lending, leasing and banking services to middle-market companies and small businesses from coast to coast. First Citizens also operates a nationwide direct bank and a network of more than 600 branches in 22 states, many in high-growth markets. Industry specialists bring a depth of expertise that helps businesses and individuals meet their specific goals at every stage of their financial journey. Discover more at cit.com/firstcitizens.
AES Clean Energy
https://www.aes.com/AES is a global energy company that creates greener, smarter and innovative energy solutions. Together, we can accelerate the future of energy.
American Battery Solutions – Energy Storage Solutions division.
https://www.americanbatterysolutions.com/ess/ess-homeAmerican Battery Solutions Inc. design & manufacture safe, efficient, and reliable energy storage systems that are easy to purchase, install, operate and maintain.
In 2007, their ambitious team pioneered the world’s first self-contained 2 MW energy storage system (ESS). Years later, the same group developed the industry’s first 4 MWh containerized system achieving US and European safety approvals. Today the ABS-ESS team has over 150 years of combined energy storage design, engineering, manufacturing and deployment experience.
Altus Group
https://www.altusgroup.com/services/state-local-tax/Altus Group provides the global energy and commercial real estate industries with vital actionable intelligence solutions driven by our technology, asset level data, and market leading expertise. Providing Intelligence as a Service™, Altus empowers developers and investors to make well-informed decisions with greater speed and scale to maximize returns and reduce risk.
Altus’s Tax team is the leading provider of state and local tax consulting services for utility-scale renewables in the U.S. and Canada. Our comprehensive state and local tax services are relevant throughout the asset lifecycle and include creating and analyzing state and local tax projections, negotiating discretionary incentives, and pursuing tax appeals opportunities.
Deutsche Bank
https://country.db.com/usa/Deutsche Bank is a leading provider of financial services to agencies, corporations, governments, private individuals and institutions in the Americas. Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, the bank began independent operations in the US in 1978, opening its first North American branch in New York City. In October 2001, Deutsche Bank was the first German bank to list on the NYSE and one of the largest foreign-based employers in New York City. Deutsche Bank launched its US intermediate holding company, DB USA Corporation, on July 1, 2016, under which most of its US-based operations were consolidated as required by the Dodd-Frank Act.
American PowerNet
https://americanpowernet.com/Almost twenty years ago, American PowerNet was the first company in the nation to introduce sub-accounts for business and public entities. This allowed us to be first-to-market with wholesale electricity procurement when deregulation was in its infancy. The American PowerNet procurement model has since been implemented by Fortune 500 companies, major universities, data centers, cities, and manufacturers across the country.
We have continued to lead innovation in the wholesale electricity market, never being content with the status quo. American PowerNet is now one of the first companies in the world to bring blockchain tools to the U.S. electricity industry.
KeyBanc Capital Markets
https://www.key.com/businesses-institutions/industry-expertise/keybank-capital-markets.htmlWith more than 800 professionals across a national platform, KeyBanc Capital Markets has more than $50 billion of capital committed to clients and an award-winning Equity Research team that provides coverage on over 600 publicly-traded companies. KeyBanc’s clients benefit from their deep expertise across seven focused industry sectors, including Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrial, Public Sector, Real Estate, and Technology. KeyBanc Capital Markets is a trade name under which corporate and investment banking products and services of KeyCorp and its subsidiaries, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, and KeyBank National Association (“KeyBank N.A.“), are marketed.
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