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Tom Amis is a partner in the Cooley Business department and co-chair of the Firm's Clean Energy & Technologies group. He joined the Firm in 2010 and is resident in the Washington, DC office.
Mr. Amis has developed and financed projects in a number of industry sectors over the course of his career, with an emphasis on electric power projects. For the past decade, Mr. Amis' practice has focused on project development and finance in the renewable energy sector. Acting for both developers and lenders, he has negotiated joint development agreements; joint venture, partnership and other ownership documentation; turbine and panel supply contacts; balance of plant contracts and REC sales agreements; transmission and interconnection agreements; operating agreements; financing documents; and land use agreements. He also is highly experienced in developing projects structured around CERs generated pursuant to the Kyoto protocol.
Representative experience include:
- Lead counsel in negotiating a series of innovative utility scale solar projects on commercial warehouses.
- Lead counsel in negotiation of $600 million frame turbine purchase agreement on behalf of a major United States wind energy developer.
- Lead counsel in acquisition of a leading eastern United States wind energy development company.
- Lead counsel in structuring a scalable energy efficiency solution for an investment fund.
- Lead counsel in development of series of interstate transmission lines for renewable energy.
- Lead counsel in negotiating one of the solar industry's first multiyear frame purchase agreements for solar panels.
- Lead counsel in development and financing of coal bed methane project (incorporating Kyoto credits).
- Lead counsel in negotiation of power purchase agreement for 450 MW Atlantic Ocean wind farm.
Mr. Amis received his J.D., with honors, from Columbia Law School in 1982. He received his M.B.A., also with honors, from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, in 1983. Mr. Amis received his M.S. from The London School of Economics and Political Sciences in 1979, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1978. He is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2009, The Best Lawyers in America, 2009 and serves as adjunct professor of project finance and renewable energy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He lectures widely on topics relevant to the renewable energy industry.
Education- Columbia University School of Law
JD, 1982 - INSEAD, Fontainebleau
MBA, 1983 - The London School of Economics and Political Science
MS, 1979 - Yale University
BS, 1978
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- New York
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