Holland & Hart LLP

Holland & Hart's Renewable Energy Group handles projects from inception to completion. Renewable energy development has grown exponentially in recent years, and Holland & Hart's renewable energy practice has grown in response. Holland & Hart has been an established presence in the Mountain West for over 60 years, largely due to our extensive experience helping clients in the energy industry. As the energy industry has changed and expanded to include alternative and renewable sources, Holland & Hart has kept pace, helping both established companies and new industry entrants. Holland & Hart's Renewable Energy Industry Group represents wind energy, solar power, geothermal power, biofuels plant, hydroelectric generation, and other renewable power plant developers, as well as energy efficiency / demand-side management providers. We can handle virtually all aspects of renewable-energy project matters from inception to completion, and we continue to help as companies grow and mature, facing new opportunities and challenges along the way.

Experience
For decades, our team has been assisting clients on electric power industry issues, and Holland & Hart attorneys boast years of experience with independent power producers across the West, the United States and internationally. We are among the nation's leading project development and finance firms, and represent the largest and longest-running electricity industry client coalitions in numerous states in regulatory proceedings. Within our footprint and beyond, we have acted as lead counsel in the development and financing of renewable energy projects in over 15 states and abroad. We work with renewable energy developers across the country and internationally on complex transactions drawing on the experience of our large and dedicated team of professionals.

Holland & Hart helps renewable energy developers find innovative solutions to match the innovative nature of the new technologies and offsetting mechanisms being introduced into the marketplace. Holland & Hart's Renewable Energy attorneys are well-versed in the complex transactions surrounding the purchase and sale of Renewable Energy Credits and Voluntary Emission Reduction Credits. We help clients structure programs to offset the carbon emissions associated with large projects, generate credits from vented methane capture, and quantify credits from agricultural operations. As new arrangements emerge, Holland & Hart is positioned to help clients evaluate their options and implement beneficial solutions.

Practice Areas
As the industry expands and the competition intensifies, Holland & Hart helps renewable energy developers by providing "one-stop shopping" for all of their legal needs, including in the following areas:

Project Development

• Real Property and Title Work
• Land Use and Zoning
• Environmental Regulation and Permitting
• Private and Public Land / Resource Leasing
• Public Lands and NEPA Compliance
• Historic Preservation
• Endangered Species
• Water Rights and Water Supply
• Easements, Rights-Of-Way and Eminent Domain
• Creation and Marketing of Carbon Credits
• State, Regional, and Federal Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Requirements
• Compliance with Greenhouse Gas-Based Procurement Requirements for Electricity and Other Products
• Government Contracting

Project Finance

• Financing Structuring and Documentation
• Tax Credits / Monetization
• Equipment Lending
• Single-Project and Portfolio Lending
• Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreements
• Power Purchases and Sales Agreements
• Interconnection and Transmission Agreements
• FERC, State Commission and Other Regulatory Proceedings

Corporate Transactions

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• Private Equity and Debt Financing
• Capital Markets Transactions
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Entity Formation and Structure
• Exit Strategy Planning
• Employment / Executive Contracts
• Securities Advice
• Joint Venture Formation and Structure

Technology Acquisition, Protection and Enforcement

• Patent Prosecution and Enforcement
• Technology Transfer and Licensing
• IP Audits and Due Diligence
• Trademark Prosecution and Enforcement

Full-Service Benefits

• Climate Change
• Employee Benefits
• Litigation
• Legislative Affairs and Lobbying at the Federal, State and Local Level
• Regulatory Compliance and Proceedings
• Federal, State and Local Tax Issues

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.