Matt Bonovich Bio

Matt Bonovich is a partner in the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Team and the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office. Matt has been working on energy transactions for over a decade, with particular experience in renewables. During this time, he has negotiated all manner of project contracts, including M&A transactions, power purchase agreements, hedges, construction and procurement, interconnection and transmission and operations and maintenance. Recently, Matt has negotiated several turnkey build transfers. Prior to returning to private practice, Matt served as Deputy General Counsel at Invenergy, where he was responsible for commercial transactions. His responsibilities included joint ventures, joint development arrangements, project acquisitions and dispositions, a variety of offtake arrangements, construction and procurement and all other commercial transactions integral to the full life span of the company's projects. In this role, Matt also managed the legal affairs of Invenergy's projects with various counterparties and stakeholders, guided regulatory matters for these projects, performed risk analysis and served on the company's risk management committee. Matt is experienced in the full life cycle of energy projects, from inception through development, financing and construction to operation. He works with all types of energy technologies, including wind, solar, storage, transmission, natural gas, cogen, LNG and biomass. Matt is frequent speaker on a variety of renewable energy topics.