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Laura Hegedus is special counsel in the Cooley Business department and is a member of the Firm's Clean Energy and Technologies group. She joined the Firm in 2010 and is resident in the Washington, DC office.
Laura practices in the areas of renewable energy project development, finance and tax planning. Her focus is on developing clean energy projects and programs and structuring investments in them. Laura has worked for developers, equity investors, lenders, and utilities in transactions involving wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, waste-to-energy, and landfill gas facilities, as well as biofuels. She has counseled clients on a wide range of federal and state renewable energy incentive programs, including production and investment tax credits, loan guarantee and economic development programs, feed-in tariffs, carbon management programs, and property/excise tax agreements. She also has experience in general corporate tax planning for acquisitions/dispositions, cross-border payments and corporate finance.
Representative experience includes:
- Tax counsel to wind energy developers in equity monetization transactions for wind farm portfolios, valued at $300-500 million.
- Representation of solar energy company in series of sale/leaseback transactions providing capital for utility-scale and commercial rooftop projects.
- Counseling of solar energy companies in structuring power purchase agreements and equipment leases.
- Advice to clients in connection with applications under government loan, grant, rebate and community development programs, including U.S. Department of Energy and Treasury programs funded by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Laura also has significant experience designing and implementing solar financing programs enabled by public/private partnerships, including equipment leasing or financing programs in Arizona, California, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Laura serves as an adjunct professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where she teaches a course on project finance. She is also an occasional speaker at renewable energy conferences, particularly those hosted in good climates.
Laura received her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1998. She received her J.D., cum laude, in 1993 from Tulane Law School, where she was senior managing editor of the Tulane Law Review, and her A.B., with honors, from Occidental College in 1989.
Education- New York University School of Law
LLM Taxation, 1998 - Tulane Law School
JD, 1993, cum laude - Occidental College
AB, 1989, with honors
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
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