Renewable Energy

Since 1980, the lawyers of our Global Renewable Energy practice at Baker & McKenzie represent clients in all aspects of the development and financing of renewable energy projects. Our global capabilities include:

• Project development
• Project financing
• Project support agreements
• Energy taxes and credits
• Environmental counseling
• Regulation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Tradable credits and certificates

Our experience includes hydro, tidal, wind power, solar, biofuels, geothermal, landfill gas, cleantech, carbon and climate change transactions, as well as advising on the purchase and sale of renewable energy credits (RECs) and Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) in the United States, the EU and elsewhere around the world.

Our clients include project developers, equipment manufacturers, construction companies, industrial companies, end-users, regulated utilities and their unregulated subsidiaries, power marketers, financial institutions, private equity funds, multi-lateral institutions and governments.