Keith Martin

Partner

Practice Description

Keith Martin is a transactional lawyer whose principal areas of practice are tax and project finance. He acted for 157 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.) He holds the sole "star" ranking in US renewable energy from the Chambers directory. 
• 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 and presentations include:  
  • "Drive to Reduce the Cost of Capital," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2013
  • "Prepaid Power Contracts," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2012
  • "US Inbound Investment Strategies," Project Finance NewsWire, November 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 
  • "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 at the Global Windpower 2013 convention in Chicago, a conference on REITS and Renewables: An Emerging Combination in Washington and the Energy Storage Association annual meeting in San Jose in May 2013, two conferences on the use of microgrids in the defense and commercial sectors in Washington, a Geothermal Energy Association finance forum in New York, the sixth annual global marine renewable energy conference in Washington and a Novogradac renewable energy conference in San Francisco in April 2013, the Infocast solar finance summit in San Diego and an Iberdrola customer retreat in Phoenix in March 2013, the PV America convention in Philadelphia, the Infocast wind finance summit in San Diego and a Lazard webinar on MLPs and REITs  in February 2013, a webinar on the 2013 outlook for cost of capital, a briefing by the Geothermal Energy Association on the fiscal cliff deal and the Infocast projects & money conference in New Orleans in January 2013, a Novogradac tax credit conference in Washington, a webinar on the effect of the US elections on renewable energy, a webinar on prepaid power contracts, a distributed solar conference in San Diego and a defense micro-grid conference in Washington in November 2012, a utility-scale solar finance and investment summit in San Diego and a breakfast hosted by the Houston Renewable Energy Network in Houston in October 2012, the annual meeting of the Independent Energy Production Association in California and a webinar hosted by the Solar Energy Industries Association on basis issues in September 2012, the National Geothermal Summit 2012 in Sacramento and a Gulf Coast Power Association luncheon in Houston in August 2012 , the Solar Energy Industries Association annual finance workshop in New York in July 2012, the Global Windpower 2012 convention in Atlanta and the ACORE/Euromoney Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York in June 2012, the Novogradac renewable energy conference in San Francisco and the Reznick solar energy conference in Laguna Niguel in May 2012, the American Wind Energy Association finance conference in New York, the 5th annual global marine renewable energy conference in Washington and a webinar sponsored by the Solar Energy Industries Association in April 2012, and a White House meeting on tax equity in Washington and a waste-to-energy conference in Chicago in March 2012.