Subject: Akin Gump announces new Los Angeles-based Project Finance and Renewable Energy team
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 18:52:04 -0400

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of our global Project Finance and Renewable Energy practice in California with the addition of four partners in Los Angeles. Joining Akin Gump are Edward W. Zaelke, Adam S. Umanoff, Lloyd MacNeil and Thomas I. Dupuis, all of whom previously practiced as partners at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. The firm currently has an office in Century City and will be opening a new office in downtown Los Angeles where the team will practice. Adam Umanoff and Ed Zaelke will serve as Co-Chairs of the practice. 

This team is a nationally recognized leader in project finance and the renewable energy industry and has significant experience with complex matters involving wind, solar, hydroelectric, landfill gas, biomass and geothermal projects. This powerhouse team complements our corporate team of more than 200 lawyers and adds substantial depth to our project finance and development capabilities. 

Edward W. Zaelke, partner

Mr. Zaelke is recognized as one of the country’s leading renewable energy lawyers. He focuses his practice on project development and finance, with a particular emphasis on representing companies engaged in the development, finance and operation of wind power, solar power and other alternative energy projects. His clients include many of the top renewable energy developers and investors in the U.S. He served as president of the American Wind Energy Association in 2006-07 and has served on the board of directors of AWEA since 2002. In 2009 and 2010, he was named one of California’s Top 100 Lawyers and Top 25 Clean Tech Lawyers by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals and is recognized by Chambers and Partners and numerous other publications for his leading role in the renewable energy industry.

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Adam S. Umanoff, partner

Mr. Umanoff, who is also widely recognized in the renewable energy industry, has a practice concentrated on the development, financing, operation, disposition and acquisition of renewable energy projects and renewable energy companies. Prior to returning to private practice in 2004, he served as CEO of the country’s largest wind energy developer and turbine manufacturer. Over the past year, he has served as lead counsel on the three largest renewable energy projects in the world, two of which won “Deal of the Year” honors from Project Finance Magazine and International Project Finance. In 2010, the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals also recognized him as one of California’s Top 100 Lawyers and Top 25 Clean Tech Lawyers. He is also recognized by Chambers and Partners and other publications as one of the leading lawyers in the renewable energy industry.

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Thomas I. Dupuis, partner

Mr. Dupuis focuses his practice on the development, acquisition, sale and financing of commercial real estate and conventional and renewable energy projects, especially wind, solar and geothermal energy projects. He represents owners, sponsors, developers, lenders and other participants in a broad range of transactions.

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Lloyd MacNeil, partner

Mr. MacNeil’s practice has an emphasis on project development, project financing and mergers and acquisitions in the energy and infrastructure sector, with a key focus on renewable energy. His clients include developers, sponsors, lenders and investors on a variety of renewable and nonrenewable energy project developments, financings and acquisitions.

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About our Project Finance Practice

Akin Gump is a world leader in the development and financing of energy projects. To best serve our clients’ needs, our attorneys are deployed in strategically significant locations within the energy and renewable energy industries, including California, Texas, New York, London, Moscow, the Middle East and Asia. We have extensive experience counseling clients through the complexities of renewable energy transactions, from tax-related and environmental issues to construction and regulatory matters as they relate to renewable energy projects. Within the past year, the team has been involved in some of the world’s largest and highest-profile renewable energy transactions, including: representing Caithness Energy, LLC and GE Energy Financial Services in the approximately $2 billion financing for the world's largest wind farm; assisting Clipper Windpower in the acquisition by United Technologies Corporation; representing First Wind Energy in the $376 million financing of the Milford I wind farm power project and assisting EMIC (E.ON-Masdar joint venture) in connection with the “greening” of brownfield power and oil and gas projects for generation of carbon credits and enhanced project economics in target regions of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia.

About Akin Gump

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