Keith Martin

Partner

Practice Description

Keith Martin is a transactional lawyer whose principal areas of practice are tax and project finance. He acted for 173 companies last year and worked on transactions in the United States and eight foreign countries. He also lobbies Congress and the Treasury Department on policy issues. He is co-head of the Chadbourne project finance group.

Experience

• Honors: He is listed as one of the world's leading project finance lawyers in the latest Chambers global directory and International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers published in London and as a premier tax lawyer in The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers in America. (All four publications base their recommendations on peer reviews and polling of corporate law departments.) 
• Editor: Project Finance NewsWire, and a contributing editor of International Tax Report, Practical US/International Tax Strategies and Natural Gas & Electricity magazine.
• Author: He is the author of more than 135 articles and book chapters. Recent papers include:
  • "US Inbound Investment Strategies," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2011
  • "Chinese Solar Cells May Face US Import Duties," Special Update, October 2011
  • "Strategies for Starting Construction," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2010
  • "Guide to Federal Tax Incentives for Solar Energy," distributed by the Solar Energy Industries Association, and "Solar Tax Manual," distributed by the Solar Electric Power Association 
  • "Treasury Rolls Out Cash Grant Program," Special Update, July 2009
  • "Financing Renewable Energy Projects After the Stimulus," Special Update, February 2009
  • "Calculating How Much Tax Equity Can Be Raised," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2008
  • "Master Limited Partnerships," Project Finance NewsWire, March 2006
  • "Financing Pollution Control," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2005
  • "Tax Break for Repatriated Earnings," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2005
  • "Canadian Income Funds," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2003
  • "Tax Issues in Project Sales," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2003
  • "Potential Effects of Invading Iraq," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2002
  • "Corporate Inversions," International Tax Review, May 2002
  • "Storm Over Argentina," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2002
  • "Fallout from Enron," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, January 2002
  • "Municipal Power Deals," Project Finance Monthly, February 2001
  • "Latest Tax Angles for Latin American Projects," Practical Latin American Tax Strategies, September 1999
  • "Cross Border Leasing," Proceedings, EEI Tax School, July 1997
• Speaker:    Recent talks include a renewable energy law and policy summit in Denver, a green energy M&A conference in Santa Clara, a Novogradac tax credit conference in Washington, a Standard & Poor's roundtable on ABS financing structures in New York and a webinar on the potential consequences of the deficit reduction efforts in Washington in November 2011, the Solar Power International 2011 convention in Dallas, the annual meeting of the Independent Energy Producers Association in California and a Reznick renewable energy conference in Chicago in October 2011, the RETECH convention in Washington and the solar finance and investment summit in San Diego in September 2011, the Geothermal Energy Association annual national summit in Reno in August 2011, a finance forum hosted by the Solar Energy Industries Association in New York in July 2011, the ACORE/Euromoney Renewable Energy Finance Forum and a distributed solar conference in New York in June 2011, the Global Windpower 2011 convention in Anaheim, an ocean research and resources advisory panel meeting in Washington, a solar workshop in Madrid, the National Tax Association annual meeting in Washington, the annual meeting of the tax section of the American Bar Association in Washington, and a Geothermal Energy Association conference in Washington in May 2011, the 4th annual global marine renewable energy conference in Washington, an offshore wind conference in Washington and the American Wind Energy Association annual finance forum in New York in April 2011, a solar finance and investment summit in San Diego and a webinar hosted by the Solar Energy Industries Association in March 2011, the wind finance summit in San Diego, the Geothermal Energy Association annual finance forum in New York and the Photon solar conference in San Francisco in February 2011, the Infocast Projects &Money conference in New Orleans in January 2011, a conference on distributed solar projects in San Diego in December 2011, and the American Wind Energy Association fall symposium in Phoenix, a cellulosic biofuels summit in Washington, a renewable energy tax credit conference in Washington and a webinar on the effects of the US elections on the renewable energy industry in November 2010.