Winston Taylor advises developers, sponsors, and investors on a broad range of renewable and alternative power transactions, including project financings, acquisitions, and development involving solar and battery storage assets. The team also supports clients on tax equity financings, joint ventures, regulatory matters, and power purchase agreements. The practice is co-led by Jonathan Birenbaum  and Mike Pikiel in New York. Birenbaum advises energy and infrastructure clients on acquisitions, dispositions, and financings involving renewable energy assets. Laurae Rossi in Los Angeles focuses on tax equity financings and tax credit transfer transactions. Patrick Selinger in Houston advises clients on the development, acquisition, and financing of renewable energy and infrastructure projects, including M&A and related financings.
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Key clients

  • Axium Infrastructure
  • CIBC Bank USA
  • Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CACIB)
  • Enfinity Global
  • First Citizens Bank & Trust Company
  • KeyBank National Association
  • MUFG Bank, Ltd.
  • Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale
  • RBC Capital Markets Corporation

Work highlights

Represented Enfinity Global in its sale of a 49% minority interest in a large-scale battery energy storage system to Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure Ltd.
Represented Axium Infrastructure, an independent North American infrastructure portfolio management firm, in connection with its acquisition, and financing of the acquisition, of an additional 34.3% stake in Wind Energy Transmission Texas, LLC (WETT).
Advised RBC Capital Markets Corporation in the structuring of a new tax equity product involving the securitization of contracted tax credit transfer payments related to production tax credits generated by an underlying tax equity partnership.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

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Jonathan Birenbaum
Jonathan Birenbaum
Leading partners

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Laurae Rossi
Laurae Rossi
Practice head

Jonathan Birenbaum; Mike Pikiel

Other key lawyers

Laurae Rossi; Patrick Selinger