Renewable Energy and Corporate PPAs: Overcoming Regulatory, Financing, Intercreditor, Tax Challenges
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance for counsel to companies involved in renewable energy projects on the risks and benefits of corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) as well as PPA structures. The panel will discuss financing renewable energy projects with corporate PPAs and offer best practices to overcome the regulatory and financing challenges and effectively structure corporate PPAs.
Outline
- Corporate PPAs
- Benefits
- Risks
- Corporate PPA structures
- Standard PPAs
- Synthetic PPAs
- Regulatory challenges with corporate PPAs
- Financing renewable energy projects with corporate PPAs
- Intercreditor issues
- Tax issues
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What structures can be used in forming corporate PPAs? What are the challenges of the different structures?
- How can corporate PPAs be leveraged for financing renewable energy projects?
- What approaches can parties and counsel use to allocate risks and benefits in the long-term contract?
Faculty
Robert Eberhardt
Partner
Chadbourne & Parke
Mr. Eberhardt’s practice focuses on the North American power industry. His clients include investors, lenders and... | Read More
Mr. Eberhardt’s practice focuses on the North American power industry. His clients include investors, lenders and sponsors, and he advises on project financings, investments, development, and project acquisitions and dispositions. Mr. Eberhardt has significant experience with complex financings and other transactions involving wind, solar and natural gas-fired generation projects.
CloseEli M. Katz
Partner
Chadbourne & Parke
Mr. Katz focuses on providing tax, legal and commercial advice to a broad range of clients in the energy and financial... | Read More
Mr. Katz focuses on providing tax, legal and commercial advice to a broad range of clients in the energy and financial sectors. He leads cross-functional legal teams in high-profile and complex transactions, with an emphasis in the renewable energy sector. He has advised many clients on a wide range of transactions involving project development and finance, common and preferred equity investments, asset acquisitions and divestitures, capital raising and deployment structures and all forms of leasing transactions.
CloseRobert F. Shapiro
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US
Mr. Shapiro’s practice focuses on the areas of project finance and energy. He represents industrial firms and... | Read More
Mr. Shapiro’s practice focuses on the areas of project finance and energy. He represents industrial firms and developers that build, finance, own, operate, sell and use the energy output from renewable resource projects, conventional independent power facilities, and transmission and distribution facilities in the U.S. and abroad, as well as lenders and investors to those facilities.
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