| Durham serves as a co-leader of the firm’s Renewable Energy Practice Group. He focuses his practice on tax structuring for renewable energy transactions, with a particular emphasis on production tax credits (PTC), investment tax credits (ITC), project financing and tax credit transfers. Durham’s renewable energy experience includes project developments, joint ownership arrangements, power purchase agreements, transmission agreements, turbine supply agreements, balance of plant contracts, financings, acquisitions, divestures and operational matters. He also has significant experience representing clients with their mergers and acquisitions, finance ventures, capital raises and general governance. Over the course of his career, Durham has represented wind, solar and geothermal project developers, consumer-owned utilities, borrowers, real estate developers, and buyers and sellers of businesses in deals aggregating well over 5,000 MWs. He also regularly writes and speaks on tax equity trends impacting the renewable energy industry. Durham is licensed to practice in Texas, Washington and Oregon. He is also admitted to practice in U.S. Tax Court. Durham has a master’s of law in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. |
