Energy

Representative Experience

  • Ongoing representation of an investment trust focused on alternative energy companies and other clean tech industries.  Counsel includes structuring, negotiating and documenting private investment in public companies (PIPE) transactions and numerous investments in venture-stage companies, ranging from start-ups to late-round financings. Representation also includes preparing and managing the trust’s U.S. securities filing obligations and coordinating similar international filing obligations.
  • Advised a utility on its carbon emission reporting obligations.
  • Counseled on a $36 million investment in convertible preferred stock and common stock of World Water and Solar Technologies, a solar engineering and water management company.  The clean tech developer provides solutions to water supply and energy problems including to agribusiness and irrigation, water utilities, food processing plants, and refrigeration and cooling systems.
  • Staged a $12 million investment in ThermoEnergy Corporation, an integrated technologies company seeking to develop and commercialize patented water treatment and clean natural gas energy technologies
  • Staged $18 million investment in common stock and warrants of Axion Power International, Inc., which is developing super capacitive lead-acid-carbon energy storage devices combining battery and super capacitor performance characteristics.
  • Structured a $12 million investment in common stock and warrants to purchase common stock of Solar EnerTech Corp., a manufacturer of high quality photovoltaic (PV) solar energy cells and state-of-the-art solar applications.
  • Served as senior legal officer for a venture capital-backed, “distributed generation” company, which provides on-site electric and thermal energy power plants serving office, industrial, retail and hotel facilities.  Successfully negotiated and closed more than 30 energy supply transactions over a three-year period as part of multi-unit growth plan.  Company was sold in 2004 as part of industry consolidation and we were responsible for all regulatory and compliance matters with local, state and federal agencies.

For more information as to the services we provide the Energy Industry, please visit our Climate Change & Sustainability page and/or contact David E. Cranston.