Energy Assets and Transactions
Energy projects and transactions require legal advice that is both commercially practical and technically informed. K&L Gates Energy Assets and Transactions lawyers help clients develop, finance, acquire, operate, and sell the assets behind generation, transmission, storage, and energy-intensive infrastructure, from individual projects to portfolios and platforms. Our lawyers bring extensive, deal-tested experience across the full energy economy, from traditional generation and midstream assets to renewables, storage, hydrogen, transmission, and other energy-intensive infrastructure.
We handle energy and commercial project development matters around the world and across the entire the United States, including some of the largest and most complex energy, infrastructure, industrial, and large-load developments. Our multidisciplinary team supports clients through all phases of project development, from site selection and permitting through construction, financing, and operations.
Our lawyers advise developers, utilities, independent power producers, infrastructure funds, lenders, tax equity investors, and large energy users on the transactions, tax credit structures, interconnection matters, offtake arrangements, and financing solutions that shape today's energy investments. By bringing together corporate, finance, tax, real estate, and regulatory lawyers in a single coordinated team, we provide integrated advice on the issues that determine whether projects and transactions move forward successfully.
We help clients structure and close complex transactions involving:
- Battery storage projects
- Conventional generation
- Data center energy infrastructure
- Energy-intensive industrial developments
- Hydrogen and low-carbon fuel projects
- Power generation assets
- Renewable energy portfolios
- Transmission infrastructure
ENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE, AND TRANSACTION SERVICES
Develop and Build
We structure projects, secure site control, and negotiate the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC), interconnection, and offtake agreements that take a project from concept to commercial operation.
Contract and Commercialize
We negotiate the revenue contracts that make a project financeable, including power purchase and tolling agreements, capacity and ancillary arrangements, large-load and colocation contracts, data center leases, shared facilities agreements, and long-term supply, service, and operation and maintenance (O&M) contracts.
Finance and Capitalize
We structure and close project finance, tax equity, back-leverage, construction, and term debt facilities, along with the related equity and co-investment documents.
Acquire, Divest, and Partner
We lead merger and acquisition (M&A) processes, joint ventures, and platform transactions, covering development-stage pipelines, operating portfolios, and secondary market exits.
Structure and Govern
We design holding and operating entity structures, align sponsor, investor, and lender interests, and build the governance and risk allocation that holds up over the life of an asset.
ENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPERS, INVESTORS, UTILITIES, AND LENDERS WE SUPPORT
- Developers and sponsors taking projects from site control to commercial operation date (COD)
- Utilities and independent power producers (IPPs) acquiring, divesting, or repowering generation
- Infrastructure funds and private equity building and exiting platforms
- Tax equity investors, lenders, and co-investors funding project development and acquisitions
- Corporate and industrial buyers of power, capacity, and credits
ENERGY SECTORS WE REPRESENT
- Data centers and energy-intensive industrials
- Conventional and dispatchable generation
- Renewables
- Battery and long-duration storage
- Nuclear and advanced nuclear
- Transmission and grid infrastructure
- Midstream and adjacent infrastructure
- Hydrogen and low-carbon fuels
