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Covington offers a full range of legal services to companies that are developing, investing in, acquiring or implementing biomass and biofuels technologies. These companies confront a challenging set of regulatory, intellectual property, antitrust, tax, financing and other legal issues. Covington, with its regulatory depth, corporate and transactional expertise, and industry savvy, is well-positioned to advise clients -- from early-stage companies to major multinationals -- on regulatory and legislative matters, corporate transactions, and efficiently and across legal disciplines.
Representative Matters
Biofuels
- ExxonMobil on algal-based biofuels matters, including its collaboration with Synthetic Genomics.
- Amyris Biotechnologies in multiple collaboration transactions, including with Total, the French oil and gas company.
- Deutsche Asset Management on regulatory aspects of a biofuels project in Latin America.
- LA County Transit System on alternative fuel incentives.
- Vantage Point Venture Partners on various investments in cleantech companies.
- A Brazilian biofuels company in connection with its secured export financing facility.
- Solazyme, a leading algal biofuels company, in various licensing and collaboration transactions.
- A European biofuels company on the EU Renewable Energies Directive.
- Babcock & Brown in connection with the development and project financing of ethanol facilities in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Biomass
- A large national retailer on a possible waste-to-energy acquisition.
- A major owner and operator of energy-from-waste facilities on government affairs compliance matters.
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