Bryan Cave attorneys are actively involved in projects that are part of the clean technology wave. The focus nationally and internationally is on how to use energy efficiently and on methods to create energy sources that are environmentally responsible. Bryan Cave is positioned to assist clients in this new and cutting-edge area.
As part of these efforts, Bryan Cave attorneys work with clients in their efforts to create technology that stores, distributes, senses, controls, monitors, manages and produces energy. Further, we partner with clients using these technologies in conjunction with wind, hydroelectric, ethanol, biodiesel, biofuel, synthetic fuel, solar, biomass and electric sources.
The depth of experience of Bryan Cave attorneys in the areas of energy, natural resources, climate change and the environment is complimented by the expertise of other attorneys in intellectual property, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, tax, finance and commercial law.
Bryan Cave has a broad spectrum of experience in different types of alternative energy project development and financing projects, including projects relating to wind, biomass and geothermal generation projects, and the production of alternative fuels including synthetic fuel from coal, coal gasification, ethanol, biodiesel and coalbed methane.
- Cleantech Alternatives
Alternative energy is nothing new to Bryan Cave. For more than 30 years, attorneys at Bryan Cave have been active in renewable and alternative energy project development, financing and operations including wind, biomass and geothermal generation projects, and the production of alternative fuels including synthetic fuel from coal, coal gasification, ethanol, biodiesel and coalbed methane. Bryan Cave represents clients in analyzing project feasibility, structuring project ownership, project financing and project development, including project siting, governmental land use and other approvals, environmental and other permitting, regulatory compliance and contracts for project construction and operation, facility interconnection, transmission, power and other product offtake arrangements, operations and maintenance and fuel and other feedstock supply arrangements.
Our clients’ cleantech projects benefit from the broad spectrum of talents and disciplines Bryan Cave offers. Our team, together with our network, can navigate virtually every legal aspect of a cleantech project; including site and right-of-way leasing, royalty arrangements, title issues, siting, zoning and land use, environmental and other permitting issues, regulatory issues and approvals, power sale and transmission arrangements, financing, tax equity arrangements, project construction, operating and warranty arrangements.
- Climate Change
Attorneys at Bryan Cave have experience with the regulatory issues surrounding climate change in the United States and around the world. They have worked on matters involving the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme, global climate regulations, greenhouse gas emissions and technologies for GHG mitigation and sequestration. Furthermore, they are familiar with mandatory and voluntary market issues and the responses of global companies to climate change regulations including climate regulation preparedness plans. Bryan Cave attorneys are prepared to assist companies with long-term strategies developed to comply with future, and certainly complex, regulations—in ways that are economically and socially responsible.