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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:
  • Speaker: He is a frequent speaker. Recent talks include at the 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 Novogradac 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, the CSP Today conference in San Francisco and the Solar Electric Power Association annual meeting in San Jose in July 2009, the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York, the Lazard Capital Markets alternative energy conference in New York and the PV America convention in Philadelphia in June 2009, the Global Windpower 2009 convention in Chicago, the annual investor meeting of Riverstone Holdings in Houston, a dinner for utility analysts at Goldman Sachs in New York and a conference on financing renewable energy projects after the stimulus in New Orleans in May 2009, the annual meeting of the Gulf Coast Power Association in Houston, a Novogradac tax credit conference in San Francisco, a renewable energy mergers & acquisitions conference in Washington and an ocean energy conference in Washington in April 2009, and a solar finance summit in San Diego and a Credit Suisse energy conference in New York in March 2009.
 

Practice Areas

Tax

Project Finance

Education

  • Wesleyan University, B.A., 1974
  • George Washington University, J.D., 1977
  • The London School of Economics, M.Sc., 1978

Professional Background

  • Legislative Assistant, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), 1974-1977
  • Counsel, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York), 1979-1982
  • Joined Chadbourne & Parke LLP in 1983 as a partner

Admissions

1978

District of Columbia

1985

New York