Renewables

Companies are creating clean energy along the Gulf Coast and across the country at increased rates. As the renewables energy sector expands, there are many challenges such as federal and state policy uncertainty, grid integration and the need for efficient energy storage. We help our clients contend with the myriad of legal issues connected with those challenges.

Governments and businesses are moving towards clean energy. This renewables energy transition is driving a wave of innovative developments. There are large-scale solar farms, carbon capture projects, and new wind power projects throughout the Gulf Coast. Louisiana is a primary target for offshore wind power. Companies are being created daily for battery storage, carbon capture, fuel switching and blue and green hydrogen production.

We help clients with their projects in:

- Solar
- Wind (onshore and offshore)
- Battery storage
- Carbon capture
- Hydrogen
- Biomass
- Hydropower

Our Renewables team includes lawyers skilled in financing, development, construction and operation of renewable energy projects. We have insight to guide clients in each aspect of a project:

- Financing
- Site acquisition
- Real Estate
- Title
- Permitting and environmental impact
- Public approval
- Construction
- Incentives and tax credits
- Employment
- Maritime matters
- Contracts
- Disputes

We also work extensively with the industries that support renewable energy projects such as engineering, procurement and construction firms and equipment manufacturers.

Services

Antitrust
Construction and project commissioning
Development agreements
Environmental evaluations
Grid connection and integration
Labor and employee benefits
Litigation
Lobbying and political engagement
Maritime issues
Mergers and acquisitions
Onshore and offshore lease permitting and applications
Onshore and offshore real estate acquisition and leasing
Power purchasing agreements
Project finance
Restructuring
Tax
Utility bankruptcy
Utility regulatory issues

Experience

Solar Real Estate Projects

Served as a counsel on real estate and contractual matters across multiple states for a leading nationwide developer of utility-scale solar and energy projects in a partnership that expanded after the success of the first deal.

100MW Solar

Solar Power Development

Secured real estate deals on a 100MW solar PV power project in Mississippi that enabled a Fortune 500 utility to supply clean energy to more than 16,400 households.

Windfarm Vessel Financing

Structured a multimillion-dollar loan for a leading U.S. marine transportation company, which enabled it to finance construction for the first-ever U.S.-flagged and Jones Act-compliant windfarm hybrid service operations vessel (SOV).

Provided real estate, title, financing, environmental, and permitting advice for an international solar company on numerous projects in Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama.

Wind and Solar Startup M&A

Advised a national provider of technical field services for wind energy and utility-scale solar based in California, in its sale to an industry leading firm in engineering, operations, and maintenance for renewable energy infrastructure. The transaction involved a complicated tax structure and unique intellectual property issues.

Counseled a newly formed renewables entity as it bought the stock of a solar and wind renewable energy engineering and construction firm. The transaction involved substantial structuring and tax issues.

Advised a global bioenergy supply company, in real estate and transactional matters for multiple facilities across the Gulf Coast, including two in Louisiana and one in Mississippi.

Negotiate and prepare various agreements related to the development of solar and wind farms and related switching stations for a major utility provider.

Carbon Capture Projects

Provided real estate, environmental and permitting advice for a major manufacturing client on a $100-million-plus carbon capture project on the Gulf Coast.

Guided one of the largest land management companies in the southeastern United States through novel commercial contract, real estate and environmental issues in a significant carbon capture and sequestration project.

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