Bio

With more than 20 years of experience, Laurae Rossi represents both lenders and sponsors in energy project financings, energy tax equity partnerships, tax credit transfer purchase transactions, and energy acquisitions, particularly in connection with projects involving renewable energy and storage. She is not only consistently recognized for her ability to lead highly sophisticated and novel debt transactions, but also for the sheer volume of deals she undertakes. She has worked on a number of renewable energy projects involving wind, solar, and geothermal power and storage projects throughout the country. She is a prominent player in renewable energy and storage project finance and is highly regarded for her work representing lenders, institutional investors, and sponsors in not only energy and storage project financings, but also energy tax equity partnerships throughout the country. She also has experience in complex transactions involving back-leverage financings (including hybrid financings that contain a floating and fixed rate tranche of debt), tax equity financings, inverted leases, sale-leaseback transactions, holdco and mezzanine financings, portfolio financings, solar distributed generation asset financings, community solar financings, storage financings, equipment safe harbor loans, residential solar portfolios, bridge financings for the Investment Tax Credit and financings regarding the Production Tax Credit. Laurae has represented solar developers, sponsors, and lenders (including financial institutions and institutional investors). She has also represented lenders with respect to some of the first solar hedge transactions done in the market. She can create structural solutions in financing transactions to allow parties to successfully close deals in an efficient manner.