Matthew Nesburn
Partner
Los Angeles
Matthew Nesburn
Partner
Los Angeles
Contact Details
Matt is a partner in the global Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure practice, based in our Los Angeles office. He represents companies engaged in the development, construction, financing, acquisition and disposition of solar, wind, storage and other energy projects, as well as corporate planning, debt and equity investments and divestitures in the energy sector. Matt provides advice on project design and transaction structuring at every phase of project development and financing, from project inception to equity investment to construction and permanent financing, representing sponsors, cash and tax equity investors and lenders. He also counsels clients on real estate aspects of the project development and finance transactions.
Matthew is a ranked lawyer in the Chambers USA, Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional (2020-2022); and in The Legal 500 US, “Next Generation Partners” (2020-2021),and Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power (2020-2021) and Project Finance: Advice to Sponsor (2019). He advised the sponsor on the IJGlobal North American Storage Deal of the year (2020) and was part of the group named IJGlobal’s Best Legal Advisor – Tax Equity (2020).
Other noteworthy experience includes advising:
- AES Clean Energy represented in connection with tax equity and debt financing of numerous portfolios of C&I and small utility scale solar projects (over X projects), including community solar in numerous states.
- Amp Solar represented in connection with the tax equity and debt financing of a four-project 29.4 MW Massachusetts Community Solar portfolio with 42 MWh of battery storage, valued at approximately $100 million.
- Advantage Capital represented in connection with several tax equity investments.
- SunPower represented in numerous tax equity joint venture partnerships across residential and C&I portfolios.
- CarVal Investors represented in a joint venture to purchase 33 operating C&I solar projects.
- Group of tax equity investors represented in its investment in a portfolio of approximately 55 C&I solar projects across five states.
- Large independent power producer advised in connection with the tax equity financing of 12 operating wind farms located in eight states with a combined capacity of 947 MW, monetizing future tax attributes that will be generated primarily by wind projects acquired out of bankruptcy.
- Group private equity funds represented in the negotiation of a master purchase agreement to acquire PACE-financed real estate loans from an originator and in the acquisition of the underlying loans.
- Sponsor represented in the tax equity, construction debt and hedge transactions for two utility-scale wind projects in Texas.
- Large independent power producer counseled in connection with the PPA and real property rights negotiations with the offtaker and with tax equity financing of a portfolio of up to 64 commercial solar projects.
Office
Los Angeles
Allen & Overy LLP
10250 Constellation Blvd, Suite 1000
Los Angeles
CA 90067
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 2004
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, with distinction, 1989
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News: 05 April 2022
A&O advises InfraRed on investment in North American renewables portfolio
A&O announced it acted as counsel to InfraRed Capital Partners (InfraRed) on its acquisition of an equity interest in a 665 MW portfolio of renewable energy assets from ENGIE North America (ENGIE).…
Office
Los Angeles
Allen & Overy LLP
10250 Constellation Blvd, Suite 1000
Los Angeles
CA 90067
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 2004
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, with distinction, 1989
Experience highlights
Tokyo Gas America Ltd. represented in connection with the tax equity financing for the 500 MWac Akina solar facility.
CIM Group, Inc. represented in connection with the tax equity and debt financing for the initial 250 MW dc phase of the planned five phase 2.7 GW Westlands Solar Park.
AES Clean Energy represented in connection with the tax equity financing of two utility scale solar plus battery storage “peaker plants” in Hawaii
RBC represented in connection with several tax equity investments in several C&I solar portfolios with Onyx Renewable Partners and Duke Renewables.
Awards & accolades
Up and Coming
Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional, Chambers USA (2020)
Next Generation Partners
The Legal 500 US (2020)
