Bio

Joseph Nussbaum is a partner in the project finance group at Stoel Rives LLP and a member of the firm’s renewable energy team. With a particular focus on debt and tax equity financing for the U.S. solar industry, Joseph’s practice centers around helping renewables clients evaluate, structure, and execute on commercial transactions, from development-stage contracts early in a project’s lifecycle through to purchase and sale deals, and all manners of financings in between. Joseph regularly advises project sponsors, buyers, lenders and investors on tax equity partnerships, cash equity investments, construction and term loan financings, development loan facilities, joint ventures, and purchase agreements, and on issues relating to collateral security, guaranties, and credit support for power procurement and other corporate transactions. Joseph assists clients with drafting and negotiating term sheets and performing asset-level project due diligence for utility and distributed generation solar facilities across the country. Joseph has also worked for many years in the leveraged finance arena on secured and unsecured commercial lending, mezzanine loans, syndicated credit facilities, and private placements in the natural resources, power and shipping sectors, including cross-border project financings.