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The rapidly growing solar industry is global, dynamic, multifaceted, and complex. And so Covington’s cross-disciplinary solar team operates globally advising a wide range of clients across the entire solar industry value chain regarding diverse and novel industry-shaping legal and policy matters. In this sense Covington’s solar practice and experience is distinguished from many firms that focus their solar efforts primarily or exclusively on solar project finance.
Covington does that and much more. Whether a solar client’s need is for experienced hands to:
- raise venture capital or complete a public offering for cutting-edge solar technology businesses;
- lead multinational solar patent or trade secret enforcement efforts or complex intellectual property licensing and collaboration arrangements;
- advise on CFIUS and other national security-clearance implications of cross-border solar company acquisitions;
- respond to Congressional investigations regarding contracts with the US government;
- arbitrate multinational commercial disputes;
- develop project siting, permitting and interconnection strategies for utility scale projects on environmentally sensitive lands that win regulatory approval and overcome interest group opposition;
- advise on regulatory requirements and strategic considerations associated with projects involving the Department of Defense and other US government agencies;
- counsel panel suppliers and customers on China, US and EU trade disputes or on compliance with local content requirements;
- create novel, tax-advantaged funding vehicles for US commercial-scale developers or tax minimization strategies for global, utility-scale project developers;
- organize new market entry strategies for project developers or solar system components suppliers;
- advise on antitrust, unfair trade practice or other competition law controversies;
- lobby US or EU governments on tax or other policies or programs that affect the solar industry;
- counsel on insurance coverage, including to enforce policy claims against insurers;
- undertake corporate debt restructurings, mergers or other strategic transactions; or
- handle a myriad of other common or uncommon types of transactional, regulatory, intellectual property, litigation or government affairs matters of consequence to the solar industry.
Covington’s lawyers and policy advisors are very likely to have pertinent and recent experience.
Companies that have turned to Covington for solar industry expertise include:
- multiple US, European and Asian photovoltaic module manufacturers;
- inverter, tracker and other balance of system equipment manufacturers and distributors;
- polysilicon suppliers;
- solar production equipment manufacturers;
- project developers and EPC companies;
- public utilities and IPPs;
- lenders, investors and other project finance providers;
- venture capital and private equity firms; and
- investment banks and underwriters to advise on solar industry transactions.
The firm also serves as pro bono counsel to Solar Aid and the Coalition for Green Capital and is an active participating member of leading solar industry associations including SEIA, CNECC, ACORE and the US-India Business Council Solar Task Force.
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