Clifford Chance LLP’s energy and infrastructure team has experience advising on the regulatory and transactional aspects of energy projects related to renewable power generation facilities, energy storage, and hydrogen. The groups’s offering covers acquisitions, joint ventures, and portfolio sales, as well as regulatory compliance, power purchase and storage services agreement, and FERC applications. Heading up the department in Houston is Anthony Giustini who is supported by financial markets expert Alexander Leff. Leff is noted for his deep knowledge of project financing and tax equity transactions, while Washington DC’s Marcia Hook specializes in commercial agreements, M&A, and capital markets deals. Other key practitioners include Houston-based David Stringer, Alexandra Wilde, and Jonathan Castelan.
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‘Alex Leff has been a game-changer for our company. His practice combines a depth of experience with both tax equity and project finance transactions with a rare level of thoughtfulness and responsiveness. Alex has helped us work through a number of complex transaction structuring questions in a timely and efficient manner and has taken time to help grow the competencies of our internal team.’
Key clients
- Aligned Climate Capital
- OYA Renewables
- TotalEnergies
- Southern Power
Work highlights
Advised Aligned Climate Capital on its acquisition of certain solar energy assets located in Maine from ReWild Renewables.
Advised OYA Renewables on the sale of a portfolio of nine solar projects with a combined capacity of about 59 MW in the state of New York to Aggreko.
Advised TotalEnergies in its joint venture with Vanguard Renewables for the ownership, development and operation of three initial renewable natural gas production facilities in the U.S.
Lawyers
Practice head
Anthony Giustini
Other key lawyers
Alexander Leff; Marcia Hook; David Stringer; Alex Wilde; Jonathan Castelan