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Martin W. Gitlin
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27th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Martin is a seasoned corporate attorney with over three decades of experience advising sponsors, developers, investors, lenders and acquirers in connection with a wide variety of energy and other infrastructure projects, both in the United States and across the globe, with particular depth and focus on Latin America.
Over the course of his career, Martin has...
Martin is a seasoned corporate attorney with over three decades of experience advising sponsors, developers, investors, lenders and acquirers in connection with a wide variety of energy and other infrastructure projects, both in the United States and across the globe, with particular depth and focus on Latin America.
Over the course of his career, Martin has been at the forefront of the paradigm-shifting transition in the energy economy to clean and renewable sources, helping clients across the globe manage the industry shifts brought about by technological and societal changes in the way we view our energy resources.
Martin routinely advises clients on a broad range of finance and transactional matters related to energy and infrastructure projects, both distributed and utility-scale, with a particular emphasis on project development, finance and M&A.
Recent areas of emphasis have included downstream financing for implementing renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability measures for commercial and residential building stock, including Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and solar loan transactions, as well as the upstream financing transactions that support them, including warehouse credit facilities, forward purchase agreements, and capital markets financings.
In the mid-2000s, Martin served as Chief Legal Officer of the pioneer developer of greenhouse gas emission reduction offsets under the Kyoto Protocol. Martin then followed this role with a stint on the commercial side, managing the North American carbon credits portfolio for a prominent international trading company.
been at the forefront of the paradigm-shifting transition in the energy economy to clean and renewable sources, helping clients across the globe manage the industry shifts brought about by technological and societal changes in the way we view our energy resources.
Martin routinely advises clients on a broad range of finance and transactional matters related to energy and infrastructure projects, both distributed and utility-scale, with a particular emphasis on project development, finance and M&A.
Recent areas of emphasis have included downstream financing for implementing renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability measures for commercial and residential building stock, including Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and solar loan transactions, as well as the upstream financing transactions that support them, including warehouse credit facilities, forward purchase agreements, and capital markets financings.
In the mid-2000s, Martin served as Chief Legal Officer of the pioneer developer of greenhouse gas emission reduction offsets under the Kyoto Protocol. Martin then followed this role with a stint on the commercial side, managing the North American carbon credits portfolio for a prominent international trading company.
Experience
Representative Matters
- Represents a developer of utility-scale solar facilities in connection with their disposition of NTP-ready projects to major solar asset manager.
- Represents EPC contractor in connection with utility-scale solar facilities in both the development/construction contract and debt financing phases.
- Represents a private investment fund lender in connection with various secured financing transactions for distributed solar facilities.
- Represents a mission-driven bank lender in connection with various financing transactions that were secured by commercial and residential property assessed clean energy (“PACE”) assets and residential solar loans.
- Represents an asset manager in connection with originating and acquiring clean energy finance assets, including PACE assets and solar loans.
- Represented two regional banks in connection with originating commercial PACE financing transactions.
- Represented a developer of three solar projects in Texas in connection with debt financing from the USDA/Rural Utilities Service.
- Represented the largest independent natural gas producer in Colombia, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of senior unsecured notes with an aggregate principal amount of $500 million and the related tender offer and exchange of such notes for the previously issued US$320 million senior unsecured notes.
- Represents a private investment fund in connection with its acquisition of four separate portfolios of solar projects from several developers and the related tax equity financing.
- Represented the developer of an advanced municipal waste-to energy project in Maine as sponsor’s counsel in connection with a US$45 million conduit municipal bond project financing.
- Represented a residential PACE originator/program administrator in connection with the following: (1) US$175 million in warehouse credit facilities, (2) as sponsor counsel, in connection with four ABS securitization transactions, (3) as borrower’s counsel, in connection with residual and risk retention financings, and (4) as seller counsel, in two forward flow PACE Bond sale transactions valued at over US$500 million.
Languages
- Spanish
Education
- Harvard Law School, JD, cum laude
- Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPP
- University of California, Berkeley, AB
Admissions
- New York
- California
- Connecticut
- Colorado
- District of Columbia
Practice Areas
Industries
Representative Matters
- Represents a developer of utility-scale solar facilities in connection with their disposition of NTP-ready projects to major solar asset manager.
- Represents EPC contractor in connection with utility-scale solar facilities in both the development/construction contract and debt financing phases.
- Represents a private investment fund lender in connection with various secured financing transactions for distributed solar facilities.
- Represents a mission-driven bank lender in connection with various financing transactions that were secured by commercial and residential property assessed clean energy (“PACE”) assets and residential solar loans.
- Represents an asset manager in connection with originating and acquiring clean energy finance assets, including PACE assets and solar loans.
- Represented two regional banks in connection with originating commercial PACE financing transactions.
- Represented a developer of three solar projects in Texas in connection with debt financing from the USDA/Rural Utilities Service.
- Represented the largest independent natural gas producer in Colombia, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of senior unsecured notes with an aggregate principal amount of $500 million and the related tender offer and exchange of such notes for the previously issued US$320 million senior unsecured notes.
- Represents a private investment fund in connection with its acquisition of four separate portfolios of solar projects from several developers and the related tax equity financing.
- Represented the developer of an advanced municipal waste-to energy project in Maine as sponsor’s counsel in connection with a US$45 million conduit municipal bond project financing.
- Represented a residential PACE originator/program administrator in connection with the following: (1) US$175 million in warehouse credit facilities, (2) as sponsor counsel, in connection with four ABS securitization transactions, (3) as borrower’s counsel, in connection with residual and risk retention financings, and (4) as seller counsel, in two forward flow PACE Bond sale transactions valued at over US$500 million.
Languages
- Spanish
Media
Martin is a seasoned corporate attorney with over three decades of experience advising sponsors, developers, investors, lenders and acquirers in connection with a wide variety of energy and other infrastructure projects, both in the United States and across the globe, with particular depth and focus on Latin America.
Over the course of his career, Martin has... been at the forefront of the paradigm-shifting transition in the energy economy to clean and renewable sources, helping clients across the globe manage the industry shifts brought about by technological and societal changes in the way we view our energy resources.
Martin routinely advises clients on a broad range of finance and transactional matters related to energy and infrastructure projects, both distributed and utility-scale, with a particular emphasis on project development, finance and M&A.
Recent areas of emphasis have included downstream financing for implementing renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability measures for commercial and residential building stock, including Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and solar loan transactions, as well as the upstream financing transactions that support them, including warehouse credit facilities, forward purchase agreements, and capital markets financings.
In the mid-2000s, Martin served as Chief Legal Officer of the pioneer developer of greenhouse gas emission reduction offsets under the Kyoto Protocol. Martin then followed this role with a stint on the commercial side, managing the North American carbon credits portfolio for a prominent international trading company.
Experience
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.Representative Matters
- Represents a developer of utility-scale solar facilities in connection with their disposition of NTP-ready projects to major solar asset manager.
- Represents EPC contractor in connection with utility-scale solar facilities in both the development/construction contract and debt financing phases.
- Represents a private investment fund lender in connection with various secured financing transactions for distributed solar facilities.
- Represents a mission-driven bank lender in connection with various financing transactions that were secured by commercial and residential property assessed clean energy (“PACE”) assets and residential solar loans.
- Represents an asset manager in connection with originating and acquiring clean energy finance assets, including PACE assets and solar loans.
- Represented two regional banks in connection with originating commercial PACE financing transactions.
- Represented a developer of three solar projects in Texas in connection with debt financing from the USDA/Rural Utilities Service.
- Represented the largest independent natural gas producer in Colombia, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of senior unsecured notes with an aggregate principal amount of $500 million and the related tender offer and exchange of such notes for the previously issued US$320 million senior unsecured notes.
- Represents a private investment fund in connection with its acquisition of four separate portfolios of solar projects from several developers and the related tax equity financing.
- Represented the developer of an advanced municipal waste-to energy project in Maine as sponsor’s counsel in connection with a US$45 million conduit municipal bond project financing.
- Represented a residential PACE originator/program administrator in connection with the following: (1) US$175 million in warehouse credit facilities, (2) as sponsor counsel, in connection with four ABS securitization transactions, (3) as borrower’s counsel, in connection with residual and risk retention financings, and (4) as seller counsel, in two forward flow PACE Bond sale transactions valued at over US$500 million.
Languages
- Spanish
Education
- Harvard Law School, JD, cum laude
- Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPP
- University of California, Berkeley, AB
Admissions
- New York
- California
- Connecticut
- Colorado
- District of Columbia
Practice Areas
- Corporate & Securities
- Alternative Energy
- Latin America & the Caribbean
- Power Generation
- Alternative Lending & Other Non-Bank Financial Services
Industries
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