Kimberly A. Klock is an associate in the firm's Environment & Energy Practice Group. She assists clients with the development and financing of electric power assets. Her practice involves renewable energy and alternative energy technologies, including solar, biomass, landfill gas, tidal, desalinization, wind, waste coal and coal gasification.
Kimberly has counseled clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions of energy companies and energy assets and taxable and tax-exempt project financings.
Representative Transactions
· Represented an energy company in connection with the development of a next-generation nuclear power plant.
· Represented a tax investor in the acquisition of sixteen solar projects.
· Represented two major universities in connection with the development and leasing of on-campus solar power facilities.
· Represented the developer of a solar installation at a private school.
· Formed a private investment fund and drafted related private placement offering documents for investments in solar facilities.
· Represented the issuer in a pooled bond financing for energy efficiency improvements at state and local government facilities, schools and university campuses.
· Represented a consortium of independent schools in connection with the development of solar projects for several of its members.
· Drafted requests for proposals and facilitated the procurement process in a city's effort to cap its landfill and lease the property to a solar developer.
· Negotiated a software license agreement and a sponsored research agreement with a major university on behalf of a smart grid service provider.
· Represented the developer of a waste coal-fired electric power generation project.
· Represented the owner of a coal-fired power plant in connection with the development of a new unit by a third party.
· Represented a developer of integrated gasification combined cycle projects in PJM.
· Acted as underwriter's counsel on a landfill gas project in South Carolina.
· Represented the developer in a landfill gas project in Pennsylvania.
She served as law clerk to the Honorable William H. Walls of the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Prior to practicing law, Kimberly worked as a business analyst and trade settlement administrator for an investment management company in New York.
In General. Kimberly is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law where she served as editor-in-chief of the Temple International & Comparative Law Journal.
Professional & Civil Associations
· American Bar Association
· National Asian Pacific American Bar Association