Press Release
| March 22, 2011
Partners Sean Moran and Michael Duff Named Among California's Top 25 Clean Tech Lawyers
(LOS ANGELES – March 22, 2011) – Sean Moran and Michael Duff, partners in Dewey & LeBoeuf's Los Angeles office, have been selected to the Daily Journal's inaugural list of the "Top 25 Clean Tech Lawyers" in California. The list recognizes attorneys across California whose accomplishments are helping to shepherd through the largest and most innovative renewables projects in the country.
Mr. Moran and Mr. Duff were recognized for their team's creation of the pre-tax after-tax partnership structure, numerous leveraged lease structures and other structured vehicles which investors such as JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citibank N.A., MetLife, Union Bank of California, Google and Wells Fargo & Co. are now using in the majority of financings of large-scale renewables projects. The article highlights their involvement in many of these projects, including structuring the sale and leaseback of the largest solar power plant built in the US in the last 18 years; their representation of MetLife, the equity investor, in the project financing of a geothermal power plant in Nevada; and their representation of Citibank N.A. in the $1.6 billion Alta Wind power projects in California, the first leveraged lease financing of a wind power initiative.
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