Solar Energy

Our lawyers worked on the world’s first commercial solar projects over 30 years ago, and today our solar team is present throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa, representing prominent industry participants on utility-scale, C&I and residential project development, finance, and M&A transactions.

Our solar team members not only understand the legal aspects of solar transactions, but we are intimately familiar with the key commercial issues that drive our clients’ businesses and success. For that reason, the most successful solar industry participants consistently select us for their most important transactions in the solar industry: 

Solar Development

We provide counsel on greenfield project development and transaction structures, including on power purchase agreements, permitting, EPC, site arrangements, module warranties and other key solar development matters. We continue to be at the forefront of development activity for our clients, including helping them bid on many thousands of megawatts of new solar projects. Throughout our offices, our lawyers also represent leading developers on synthetic/virtual corporate PPAs, military projects, solar hedges, transmission and interconnection, and all other aspects of project development.

Solar M&A

We represent many of the most prominent solar industry participants in the world on their most important M&A transactions involving solar projects and companies, including Sharp’s acquisition of Recurrent and TerraForm’s acquisition of First Wind.

Solar Finance

We’ve assisted clients in financing billions of dollars of solar projects involving all types of debt (including bridge, construction, term conversion, long term, letter of credit facility and back-leverage financing), equity (including all varieties of tax equity and cash equity) financing and lease transactions.