February 5, 2025 – The MINTZ sustainable energy and infrastructure practice led record sizes last year sustainable infrastructure projects and finished in 2024 over 70 deals, whereby customers collect over 4 billion US dollars. In order to support their explosive growth, practice continued to deepen the addition of top talent in industry.
“This was a groundbreaking year for us, shaped by historical infrastructure investments and unprecedented growth,” said Thomas R. Burton, III, Chairman of the Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure Practice. “Since the innovation in the energy transition sector continues to accelerate, companies and investors have increasingly rely on our multidisciplinary specialist knowledge and the integrated approach in order to quickly take advantage of opportunities and solve complex challenges. Since our foundation over 20 years ago, we have continued to drive the energy transfer through incomparable service and specialist knowledge. “
The sustainable energy and infrastructure practice of Mintz offers a fully integrated multidisciplinary team to operate customers at the energy transfer and sustainable infrastructure markets. In the following you will find highlights of our work for representative customers in the past 12 months.
- US Department of Energy (DOE) Credit Programs Office (LPO): About several project financing, including:
- The closure of a loan guarantee of $ 1.45 billion on Hanwha Q cells Georgia, Inc. for a unique US, vertically integrated solar manufacturing facility in silicon base.
- The closure of a loan guarantee of 1.67 billion US dollars to Montana Renewables, LLC (MRL) for the expansion of the establishment of MRL to increase the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel and renewable naphtha.
- A conditional obligation for a loan guarantee of up to 305.54 million US dollars for Icebrick Energy Assets I, LLC, a subsidiary of Nostromo Energy, Inc., for a virtual power plant (VPP) that consists of cold thermal energy storage devices in commercial buildings.
- A conditional obligation for a loan guarantee of up to 1.26 billion US dollars to Michigan Potash Company, LLC for the construction of a Kali solutions and the processing system, which will play a crucial role in securing domestic fertilizers.
- Mitsui & Co., Ltd..: In a shareholder agreement with RWE and Osaka Gas to regulate property, the development, financing, management and operation of an offshore wind project in the trade in the trade of the cities of Murakami and Tainai, Prefecture Niigata, Japan.
- Aspen Aerogels (NYSE: ASPN): A technology leader for sustainability and electrification solutions in a public public application for ordinary shares of 98 million US dollars.
- Boston metal: A global company for Metall Technology Solutions in a series -C expansion that increases a total of 262 million US dollars.
- Marubeni: A Japanese conglomerate for integrated trade and investment business, with four separate transactions for the sale of its interests on two large wind farms and two gas-fired energy projects.
- Zwitterco.: A company that transforms water treatment through advanced membrane technologies in a series B financing of over 58 million dollars.
- Spring Lane Capital: A private equity company in its $ 30 million investment in Soluna Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLNH), a developer of Green Data Centers for intensive computer applications to make the construction of wind farms easier in Texas.
- Mantel Capture, Inc.: A technology provider of a CO2 recording system with melted borates in its $ 30 million-series-A-A-Financing, which was led by Shell Ventures and Eni next.
- Sojitz corporation: A Japanese general trading company in the acquisition of 90% ownership of Freestate Electric, a large contractor for electrical construction in the US region of the United States.
- Wave Equity Partners: A growth share company based in Massachusetts in an investment of $ 30 million in the series A round of Mayman Research, Inc ..
- Renova -Energie: When acquiring an interest in a solar and storage project for supply measures in Texas in the early developmental stages.
- Sora fuel: A startup that produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with only water, air and renewable energies in its oversubscribed seed round of 6 million US dollars. The engine company led the round with wire goods and other part.
Energy regulation and legal disputes
Mintz quickly developed as a leader in the areas of high sticks, especially in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Under the direction of Steven Sharber, Mintz was involved in some of the highest procedures before the FERC last year, including representation of the country's largest Clean Energy trade groups in the procedures related to landmarks No. 2023 and Order No. 1920. Mintz. In several customers, including project developers, asset management managers and private equity funds, they represented in section 206 by Multiple Federal Power Act.
Deepening of the bank strength to support explosive growth
The sustainable energy and infrastructure practice continues to attract top talents and continues to deepen their bank with adding five new team members last year.
- Man Banack (Toronto)
Adam focuses on the development and procurement of energy and infrastructure project. Adam advises the project participants, which include the ecosystem of the energy infrastructure, the government agencies, developers, building contractors, service providers, lender and draftsman – about all aspects of the development and financing of important energy projects. His practice also includes advising authorities, crown companies in the Canadian government and private organizations in complex procurement matters in defense, technology and infrastructure industry. - Luis F. Torres (Washington, DC & New York)
Luis is an experienced lawyer for project financing with over two decades of experience. His practice focuses on the structuring, development and financing of energy, transport, telecommunications and other infrastructure projects in the USA, Latin America and other jurisdiction around the world. - Will Haslun (New York)
Will is a corporate lawyer who focuses on complex energy and infrastructure transactions, the projects include the solar, wind, geothermal energy, RNG, data centers, arenas, sports stadiums and much more. He advises customers about the formation of joint ventures, the reorganizations of the holding company Portfolios and the creation of vehicles with special purposes. - Nakia Arrington (Washington, DC)
Nakia is a process lawyer whose practice comprises complex civil and criminal legal disputes, arbitration and medication and customers on compliance issues, whereby the focus is on questions of matters and environmental authorities. - Thomas Ernst (San Francisco)
Thomas is a coveted lawyer of companies with more than a decade experience in relation to strategic legal and business guidelines for customers ranging from start-ups to private and public companies in the late stage. Thomas' practice focuses primarily on corporate and private equity financing as well as mergers and takeover. He works with customers in a variety of industries, whereby companies and investors concentrate in Clean Tech, Clean Energy and sustainability.
Facilitating the ecosystem growth of industry
The practice regularly organizes customer events to combine industry experts, exchange findings and explore new opportunities. Mintz's third annual energy transition summit 2024 brought together 200 managers from the entire energy transfer and sustainability ecosystem for a day of problem solving and networking. The event contained respected spokesman from the areas of politics, financing and technology, including an opening cultivation by John F. Kerry, the 68th US foreign minister and the former US President of the President of Climate. Led by the topic “Catalysis of the energy transition through investments, innovation and introduction”, discussions focused on the decisive role of financing – both from private and public sources – in the design of the future of energy transition.
Via Mintz sustainable energy and infrastructure
The Mintz sustainable energy and infrastructure team undertakes to promote innovations, change the infrastructure and scale solutions that are integrated for business success and a flourishing planet. Under the direction of Tom Burton and Sahir Surmeli, including sustainable infrastructure chairman Ayaz Shaikh and member Paul Dickerson, the team includes more than 50 industry -leading lawyers and specialists in all legal disciplines. As a first law firm, which develops an integrated practice that focuses on energy transfer and sustainable innovations, Mintz helped customers to complete over 800 transactions with an investment value of more than 40 billion US dollars over two decades. The practice currently serves 250 customers who extend through the climate technology, the energy transfer, the sustainable infrastructure and the green industrial sectors. You can find more information here.