Representative Experience

Acting as lead real estate and/or development counsel

• Represented Exelon in $900 million acquisition of Deere Renewables, with an established wind portfolio of 36 operating wind farms totaling 735 MWs of installed wind capacity, as well as three additional near-term projects totaling 230 MW and 1.5 GW of early and mid-stage projects. The transaction was named “Best M&A Deal” in 2010 by Institutional Investor’s Power Financing & Risk Newsletter.
• Represented a major U.S. renewable energy company in the purchase and project development of a 33 MW wind energy project in Maryland
• Represented a major European renewable energy company in project development and financing of $250 million wind energy project in North Dakota and South Dakota
• Represented a major U.S. financial institution in its tax equity investment in a 217 MW, $465 million wind energy project in Illinois
• Represented a major European renewable energy company in project development and sale leaseback financing of 64 MW Nevada solar thermal project
• Represented a seller of a hydroelectric facility associated with a paper mill in Michigan, including legal separation of hydroelectric assets from paper mill assets
• Represented a leading energy-focused private equity fund in the divestiture of a collection of district energy, district heating and chilled water projects in the Midwest
• Represented a major U.S. renewable energy company in the purchase and project development of an 82 MW wind energy project in Michigan
• Represented a major European renewable energy company in early to mid-stage development of wind energy projects in 15 states, including California, Kansas, Iowa, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Wyoming and New York, with over 2000 MW of development potential
• Represented a major U.S. renewable energy company in a non-recourse construction financing and sale leaseback take–out financing for a 34 MW wind energy project in Maine
• Represented a major U.S. renewable energy company in the acquisition and development of a 27 MW wind energy project in New Mexico
• Represented a major U.S. financial institution in its $288 million tax equity financing of a 128 MW wind energy project in California
• Represented a seller of a hydroelectric facility associated with a paper mill in Wisconsin, including legal separation of hydroelectric assets from paper mill assets
• Represented the lender and tax equity investor in the construction and tax equity financing of a 58 MW wind energy project in Idaho
• Represented a Midwest utility in connection with the turnkey development and construction, and ultimate financing, for a 99 MW wind energy project in Iowa
• Represented a major European wind energy developer in the development and complex financing of an approximately $250 million, 123 MW wind energy project in Oklahoma
• Represented a major European renewable energy company in the development and financing of a 100 MW wind energy project in Illinois
• Represented a seller of a portfolio of five hydroelectric facilities in Wisconsin
• Represented tax equity investor in tax equity investment in a 94 MW wind energy project in New York
• Represented a major renewable energy company in multi-phase project development and finance transaction, including construction, equity and term loan, for 129 MW project in Wisconsin
• Represented a major U.S. financial institution in its tax equity investment in a 217 MW wind energy project in Illinois
• Represented leading Midwest based utility in its acquisition of a nearly 600 MW combined cycle generating facility in Wisconsin
• Represented a major U.S. renewable energy company in project development, construction, equity and term loan financing of a 260 MW portfolio of wind projects located in Montana, Idaho and Colorado
• Represented equity investor on portfolio financing of 86 MW wind farm and 32 MW wind farm in Minnesota
• Represented non-regulated subsidiary of a leading Midwest based utility in establishing compressed natural gas stations in several states