King & Spalding’s Renewable and Alternative Energy Practice provides effective advice and skillful solutions to the complex needs of clients in this fast-growing segment of the energy industry. The firm’s multidisciplinary group draws its members from many practices, providing a “one-stop” approach that permits it to assemble the exact blend of legal disciplines appropriate for each client matter. Lawyers on the team come from the firm’s Energy and Global Transactions, Private Equity, Financial Transactions, Tax, and Construction Transactions groups. From time to time, this team also relies upon the resources of the firm’s Corporate Transactions, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Dispute Resolution practices.
King & Spalding has long been actively involved in the evolving renewable energy industry, representing clients from the initial stages of investment and tax structuring to the development, financing, federal and state permitting, construction and operation of the full breadth of renewable and alternative energy projects worldwide. The firm’s lawyers have worked on ethanol, biodiesel, solar, biogas, wind, geothermal and hydropower projects and transactions, as well as alternative “clean coal,” nuclear and biomass-related energy projects and transactions, including tires-to-fuels, waste-to-energy and waste oil/plastic-to-fuels projects.
Areas of Expertise
- Biodiesel
- Biogas
- Biomass
- Clean coal
- Energy Storage
- Ethanol
- Geothermal
- Hydropower
- Nuclear
- Solar
- Wind
Recognitions
- King & Spalding is recognized for its “first-class energy team” and ranks as one of the top energy and natural resources firms in the United States in the 2010 edition of Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
- King & Spalding is named one of the top energy and natural resources firms nationally (Chambers USA 2010).
