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Keith
Martin
Partner
Practice Description
Keith Martin is a transactional lawyer whose principal areas of practice are tax and project finance. He acted for 186 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.
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 130 articles and book chapters. Recent papers include:
- "Strategies for Starting Construction," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2010
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "Beware the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," International Commercial Litigation, October 1996
- Speaker: He is a frequent speaker. Recent talks include at a waste-to-energy summit in San Diego, a Lazard Capital Markets dinner for fund managers and analysts in New York and a webinar on the potential effects of the financial sector reform bill on the project finance market in July 2010, the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York and the EEI tax school in Boston in June 2010, the Global Windpower 2010 convention in Dalllas in May 2010, the American Wind Energy Association finance forum in New York, the 3rd annual global marine energy conference in Seattle, a webinar on asset and company valuations in the wind and solar sectors and the Novogradac renewable energy finance conference in San Francisco in April 2010, a solar finance summit in San Diego in March 2010, a wind finance summit in San Diego and the RETECH convention in Washington in February 2010, the Infocast "Projects & Money" conference in New Orleans in January 2010, a renewable energy finance summit and a tax credit conference in Washington in November 2009, the American Wind Energy Association fall finance forum in New York, a biomass summit in Washington, a webinar on DOE loan guarantees and the Solar Power International 2009 convention in Anaheim in October 2009, a utility-scale solar conference in San Diego, the annual meeting of the Independent Energy Producers Association in California, a conference in Washington on water projects, a webinar on finding development capital and the western Renewable Energy Finance Forum in San Francisco in September 2009, and the CSP Today conference in San Francisco and the Solar Electric Power Association annual meeting in San Jose in July 2009.
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Practice Areas
Tax
Project Finance
Leasing
Education
- Wesleyan University, B.A., 1974
- George Washington University, J.D., 1977
- The London School of Economics, M.Sc., 1978
Professional Background
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Legislative Assistant, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), 1974-1977
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Counsel, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York), 1979-1982
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Joined Chadbourne & Parke LLP in 1983 as a partner
Admissions
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1978
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District of Columbia
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1985
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New York
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