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During the last six months, the appetite of private equity funds for investing in ethanol deals has gone from euphoric to cautious.

The Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (the "PPP2 Act") is contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021...

In today's project finance landscape, legal structuring and risk allocation are inseparable from the political risk insurance that underpins bankability in emerging markets.

Federal agencies are deploying equity and equity-linked capital instruments across the critical minerals sector, fundamentally reshaping how mining and processing projects are capitalized, governed and exited. This structural shift introduces new considerations for sponsors and strategic investors navigating transactions where national security priorities intersect with private capital formation.

IRS announced a compliance extension for Section 409A regulations until January 1, 2008. IRS has announced that final regulations under Code Section 409A, applicable to nonqualified deferred compensation plans, will not be effective until January 1, 2008. IRS Notice 2006-79, issued October 4, 2006.

Reform in the electric power sector in Russia has been a major work in progress for years. Under the most recent plan, RAO UES of Russia should itself be phased out at the end of 2006. But, according to the internal materials of RAO UES of Russia, this is now unlikely to happen earlier than 2008.

On August 8, the President signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (the "Act") into law. The Act will dramatically modify the regulation of the sale and transmission of electric power throughout the U.S.

The test for determining what wetlands in the United States are protected by the Clean Water Act remains unclear. Six months after the US Supreme Court profoundly muddied the water, the US Army Corps of Engineers has still failed to issue guidance

On December 15, 2004 the SEC approved new rules that will for the first time provide a comprehensive securities regulatory framework for publicly issued mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities (collectively referred to herein as "ABS"). The new rules primarily address four areas of securities regulation: (1) registration requirements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"); (2) disclosure; (3) communications during the offering process; and (4) ongoing reporting require

The emergence of the COVID-19 coronavirus is already disrupting the project development and finance market in profound ways. Supply chains have been interrupted as workforces are furloughed, leading to cascading series of delays.

Owners of underground natural gas storage facilities should find it easier to charge unregulated, market-based rates for their services under new rules announced by the Federal Energy Regulatory. FERC hopes the new rules will lead to construction of more gas storage facilities. Additional storage sites are needed to meet increasing demand for natural gas and to help mitigate price volatility in the natural gas market Commission in June.

The new year got off to a quick start for the US private toll road market.</P> The winning bidder was selected for the Indiana toll road, which will be the largest privatization of an existing asset in the United States to date, and the Texas Department of Transportation unveiled two new projects for which it will solicit proposals this spring.

Monday afternoon, the bipartisan Senate group leading the latest round of discussions on coronavirus relief legislation finally released bill text in a last-ditch effort to attach it to an omnibus...