Hunton Andrews Kurth has experience advising on every stage of the hydroelectric power project cycle.
Well before the current global focus on developing new sustainable sources of energy, Hunton Andrews Kurth actively engaged in assisting clients in developing alternative and renewable energy projects. Since the 1980s, our renewable energy practitioners have represented developers and investors on hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, landfill gas and other innovative projects in the United States and around the world. Over the years, and through evolving regulation and economic cycles, our lawyers have counseled clients on how to best design, permit, finance, construct and operate a wide variety of alternative energy sources and their associated transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Hunton Andrews Kurth has advised sovereign governments, utilities, developers, private equity funds and lenders on all aspects of hydroelectric power projects located throughout the United States and globally. This work, in combination with our representation of U.S. electric utility companies for almost a century, has given us extensive experience in all facets of hydroelectric power project development and financing. Our project development work has included:
Hunton Andrews Kurth has significant experience in structuring and negotiating equity and debt financing for domestic and international hydroelectric power projects. Our lawyers regularly represent power project developers and sponsors, as well as international banks and other lenders in syndicated credit transactions and structured financings. We have also served as counsel in projects that utilized financing and other programs provided by the US Ex-Im Bank, OPIC, the World Bank, MIGA, the IFC, IDB and other governmental and multinational export credit, risk insurance and lending agencies, and have been involved in a number of transactions that include capital markets debt and multi-lateral or ECA financing tranches.