Hunton & Williams LLP has used its substantial federal tax, renewable energy and tax-exempt bond practices and its significant experience with the Clean Renewable Energy Bond (CREB) and Qualified Zone Academy Bond (QZAB) programs to develop a broad energy tax credit bond practice. Our energy tax credit bond practice group currently assists clients with the CREB program and the recently enacted New CREB and Qualified Energy Conservation Bond (QECB) programs. Hunton & Williams works with a wide range of clients participating in the energy tax credit bond arena, including:
- electric cooperatives,
- governmental entities at the state and local levels,
- investors, underwriters and lenders, and
- financial advisors.
Our lawyers have served as tax, bond, lender's and borrower's counsel in many tax advantaged transactions, including CREBs, QZABs, federal tax credits for renewable energy projects and federal tax-exempt bonds. Our experience is expansive and includes obtaining allocations, structuring such transactions to comply with state and federal law, drafting all the documents, and issuing the requisite tax opinions. Our renewable energy experience has exposed our lawyers to the complex legal issues involving the large number of projects eligible for energy tax credit bond financing. Coupled with our national tax-exempt financing experience, we can assist any energy tax credit bond participant. We are building our energy tax credit bond practice through a multidisciplinary team of lawyers focusing in tax, public finance, renewable energy, securities, real estate and environmental law. This breadth of experience, including our CREB and QZAB knowledge, allows us to address any issue in an energy tax credit bond transaction.
