Wind Energy Finance & Investment Conference 2018

Jeffrey Chester
Partner
Morrison & Foerster LLP


Jeffrey Chester is a Partner and Global Head of the firm’s Project Finance and Development Group, resident in the Los Angeles office and heading up the firm’s renewable energy practice. Mr. Chester has a broad-based practice representing developers, sponsors, lenders, and investors in construction and term debt, backleverage, tax equity (partnership flips and sale leasebacks), private equity capital financings, mergers and acquisitions (including purchases and sales of projects, pipelines and companies), and international and strategic joint ventures. Mr. Chester has a particular focus on renewable energy, having been centrally involved in the development of the equity, debt, and capital markets for renewable energy projects and closing more than 90 wind and solar power projects throughout the United States. Mr. Chester regularly leads teams involved in negotiating power purchase agreements, hedges and other off-take arrangements, turbine and solar panel supply agreements, EPC agreements, and addressing the full panoply of development issues. Mr. Chester has been recognized in Chambers USA (2008-2016) as “a celebrated expert in renewables M&A” and “regarded as one of the top deal makers in California” who is “a great problem solver” and “very entrepreneurial and commercially oriented, with a firm grasp of both the law and what it takes to actually get a deal done.” Mr. Chester is also ranked in Chambers Global (2016) in Projects (USA) and Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy (USA) and recommended in Project Finance and Energy: Renewable/Alternative by Legal 500 USA. He was also recognized by Legal Media Group Clean Technology & Renewable Energy 2013 on “The CleanTech 100,” a list of the top 100 practitioners of clean technology law across the finance and transactional, regulatory, intellectual property practice areas, and who colleagues refer to as “one of the best and most complete transactional attorneys out there.”

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