Practice Expertise

  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Project Finance and Development
  • Renewable Energy and Clean Power
  • Energy M&A

Areas of Practice

  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy M&A
  • Project Finance and Development
  • Renewable Energy and Clean Power
  • Energy M&A
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Profile

Bernard’s practice focuses on the financing and development of electric-generating facilities, with a focus on renewable energy.

Bernard advisors lenders, utilities and investors on the financing, development, acquisition and disposition of energy-generating assets around the United States, including those involving both renewable and conventional technologies. He advises on a variety of financing structures, including tax equity financings.

Relevant Experience

  • Represented financial institution in connection with its tax equity financing of a portfolio of wind projects located in Kern County, California and Riverside County, California.
  • Represented tax equity investor in connection with the financing of a portfolio of wind repowering projects located in Oklahoma, North Dakota and Colorado.
  • Represented financial institution in connection with its tax equity financing of a portfolio of wind and solar projects located in Texas and California.
  • Represented financial institution in connection with its tax equity financing of a portfolio of repowered wind and solar projects located in Florida, Maine, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas and Texas.
  • Represented the purchaser in connection with the acquisition of a wind project located in Texas.
  • Represented a utility company in connection with its financing of a wind project located in Texas.
  • Represented client in connection with transition to ownership and preparation for sale of a gas-fired power project in Arizona.
  • Represented a toll road concessionaire in the re-negotiation of its concession agreement with a state department of transportation.
  • Represented the preferred proposer on its bid to acquire the $225 million long-term lease and concession of the University of Idaho Utility System.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019BS, Thomas Edison State University, 2015

    Areas of Practice

    • Energy and Infrastructure
    • Energy M&A
    • Project Finance and Development
    • Renewable Energy and Clean Power
    • Energy M&A

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