March 28, 2011 – Pre-Conference Seminar
Financing Green in the Present Economic Environment
Preconference Seminar held by Global Change Associates, Brown Rudnick and PGS Energy Training
Venue:
The Law Offices of Brown Rudnick
7 Times Square, 47th Floor
New York, NY
The Program:
The financial crisis has impacted investment in the green sector
and has forced more innovative and entrepreneurial activities in both project
finance and cleantech investment. Our one day seminar gives you insights
into what that new economic environment is for investors, funds, banks,
entrepreneurs and developers. Hear from experts in investment banking,
cleantech venture capital, tax equity and debt strategies, and green finance.
This seminar is a how to guide to get investment in this new economic
environment.
What You Will Learn:
- What is the State of Play in Green Finance
- What is the Emerging Business Model for Investment
- What are the Investment Opportunities
- Renewable Energy Project Finance Opportunities
- How an Investment Banker Views the Sector
- What Investment Opportunities Do Venture Capitalists See
- How a Start Up Views the Sector
- What are the Tax Impacts of Investment the Sector
- What are the Smart Grid Opportunities
- What the Distributed Generation Opportunities
- Structured Finance Applications for Renewables & Cleantech
The Program:
| 8:30 AM | Registration & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | The New Green Business Model
Peter Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates |
| 9:30 AM | Structuring Renewable Energy Projects
Howard Siegel, Partner, Brown Rudnick |
| 10:00 AM | An Investment Banker’s View of Green Investment Opportunities
Thomas Blum, Partner, GC Andersen Partners, LLC |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | State Funding Sources for Cleantech
Speaker from NYSERDA invited |
| 11:30 AM | Structuring Companies for Tax Advantages
Patrick Cox, Partner, Tax Chair, Brown Rudnick |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 PM | Smart Grid Opportunities
Ashutosh Shastri, Director, Enerstat Consulting |
| 2:00 PM | Investing in the Distributed Generation Small: Small is Beautiful Again
Presented by Principal, Triton Meridian invited |
| 2:30 PM | The Path to Financing
Mike Gordon, Founder of CPower and CEO, The Joule Group |
| 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM | What Investment Criteria VCs are Looking for
Scott Depasquale, Partner, Braemar Ventures |
| 4:15 PM | Peter Fusaro Summarizes the Takeaways from the Day
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| 4:30 PM | Seminar Ends |
Instructors:
Peter Fusaro is Chairman of Global Change Associates an energy and environmental consultancy in New
York and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron as well as 15 other books on energy
and the environmental financial markets. Peter’s latest book is published by Oxford University Press on
Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques. Peter is an
energy and environmental industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and
environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for
over 35 years focusing emissions, energy efficiency, cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy
markets.
Howard Siegel is also a member and Co-Leader of Brown Rudnick’s Energy and Utilities Practice Group.
Mr. Siegel regularly represents official and ad-hoc committees of creditors and equity security holders
and other parties in interest in bankruptcy and restructuring matters. He also represents clients in
renewable energy and energy efficiency project development and finance including monetization
of carbon credits, RECs and other environmental and efficiency attributes; valuation litigation; and
transactional matters involving energy and utilities, mergers and acquisitions and commercial, corporate
and project finance. As part of Brown Rudnick’s Cleantech Team, Mr. Siegel is also part of collaborative,
cross-disciplinary initiatives to assist clients in this evolving sector.
Thomas Blum has spent 25 years as an investment banker and an investor in private equity and venture
capital companies. He is a partner of GC Andersen Partners LLC, a boutique merchant bank where he
focuses on the clean-tech sector. Prior to joining Andersen in 2006, Mr. Blum ran Channel Capital LLC, a
firm he founded in 2001 to make venture capital investments and provide financial advisory services to
emerging companies. Prior to then he was an investment banker with Salomon Brothers Inc and Bear
Stearns & Co. He is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Business School and has a BS degree in Engineering from
Princeton University in 1980
Patrick Cox is Chair of the Firm’s Tax Group and a partner in the Corporate Department. He oversees
the Firm’s taxation practice and has extensive experience in general tax planning including issues
of partnership, real estate, international and corporate taxation. Mr. Cox assists domestic and
international clients in developing effective tax strategies for complex cross-border and domestic
business transactions. He represents debtors, creditors, investors and potential acquirers of financially
troubled entities on matters involving federal income tax issues relating to financial restructuring and
acquisitions. He also advises corporations and consolidated groups on the tax consequences of debt
offerings, exchanges and reorganizations. As part of Brown Rudnick’s Cleantech team, Mr. Cox is also
part of collaborative, cross-disciplinary initiatives to assist clients in this evolving sector.
Mike Gordon is CEO of Joule Assets, Inc. and General Manager of Joule Assets, LLC, collectively
known as The Joule Group. The Joule Group is currently building software and providing financing to
value and to ease access to what Mike considers a new class of financial instruments: "Energy Reduction
Assets." Mike has historically played a central role in founding industries in the energy field. He has
particularly focused on building Energy Reduction Asset Markets and products, and on consumer
empowerment in these markets and in traditional fossil fuel markets. Mike founded ConsumerPowerline
in New York, in mid-2000, generally recognized as the nation's first demand response aggregator.
Specializing in serving end users in deregulated wholesale electricity markets, ConsumerPowerline
(later "CPower") built 1,000 MWs of demand response globally and until it's sale in October 2010 to
Constellation Energy Group, remained the largest provider of short notice (response within ten minutes of
call) demand response in the world.
Scott DePasquale is an investment professional with more than 15 years of industrial and financing
experience in the global energy industry, ranging from renewable technologies to infrastructure and
upstream oil and gas. Prior to joining Braemar, Mr. DePasquale was a senior vice president at GE Energy
Financial Services, where he led the group’s Boston-based venture capital activities. In this capacity,
Mr. DePasquale worked closely with scientists and engineers across GE’s corporate R&D center, as
well as executives from various internal businesses, to identify game-changing energy technologies.
Mr. DePasquale was instrumental in growing GE’s energy venture capital business, playing a key
role in overseeing the execution of 15 equity investments across diverse cleantech sectors. Prior to
helping launch the VC group, Mr. DePasquale was a member of GE Capital’s Diversified Energy and
Natural Resources team, where he was responsible for late- stage private equity and structured finance
transactions in infrastructure and upstream oil and gas.
Ashutosh Shastri is a Director at EnerStrat Consulting, an energy strategy consultancy based iun London.
Previously, he was a practice specialist at McKinsey and Company. He was also an executive / quality
management advisor at confederation of Indian industry. He was educated at the University of Mumbai.
Registration:
$995
A 20% discount will be applied for those attending the Wall Street Green Summit
Register here
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