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About the Authors Jenner & Block Climate & Clean Technology Law Prac
One of the most important and rapidly emerging issues facing corporate America today is climate change. The science and politics of climate change and other energy-related issues are beginning to create both significant challenges and tremendous opportunities. Lawmakers and businesses already are responding to these challenges and opportunities in ways that may well transform the way we live and do business.
Jenner & Block is uniquely qualified to represent and counsel clients facing the broad spectrum of legal and policy issues emerging from concerns about climate change. The Firm has historically been at the cutting edge of the law and directly involved in its transformation. For many years the Firm has represented clients at the forefront of alternative energy technology. It also is representing clients as they develop strategies to address current and pending regulations, in the U.S. and internationally, concerning greenhouse gas emissions. The Firm’s clients include some of the country’s leading energy producers, traditional and high-tech manufacturers, developers of cutting-edge products in the renewable energy arena, and start-ups in the development of wind, solar, and other alternative energy sources. Jenner & Block also is well connected in the capital markets and active in the significant upswing in venture capital activity, both in the Midwest and on a national basis. The Firm’s attorneys are uniquely positioned to assist clients in developing and implementing legislative strategies to achieve their policy goals in this area.
Clean technology companies, energy producers, and manufacturers of a variety of products need to understand laws in different substantive areas related to climate change, and to anticipate and respond to new or pending legislation and regulations. States like California have already taken aggressive action to combat climate change through both regulation and litigation. The U.S. Congress and the Administration have made climate change a top priority and are now actively considering several legislative and regulatory proposals addressing the issue. At the same time, companies are quickly filing for patent protection for new technology and mining the financial opportunities created by the tax laws and venture capital transactions.
As the laws relating to climate change and green technology continue to mature, the regulatory landscape will become increasingly more complex and new types of business disputes and transactions will require experienced attorneys willing and able to use creative approaches. Jenner & Block’s attorneys thrive on such challenges. They are accustomed to taking an integrated approach to representing their clients – making sure that they bring the right resources to bear and exceeding their clients’ expectations.
Jenner & Block brings together highly-skilled attorneys from a wide cross-section of our Firm’s practice areas including:
Jenner & Block has experience representing the needs of both large organizations and early stage companies facing a complex mix of regulatory issues, shifts in public policy, complicated investor relations, and demands for sustainability. Its attorneys closely monitor the law with a special focus on the quick pace of change in state and federal legislatures. The Firm also is well acquainted with emerging and high-growth entrepreneurial companies’ corporate formation and venture funding needs.
The attorneys in the Climate and Clean Technology Law practice continuously monitor the cases, regulations and trends in this important area. For Jenner & Block’s Martindale-Hubbell® profile, click here. For Jenner & Block’s Climate and Clean Technology Law practice Martindale-Hubbell® profile, click here.
For further information contact:
ROBERT L. GRAHAM
Co-Chair
(312) 923-2785
rgraham@jenner.com
GABRIELLE SIGEL
Co-Chair
(312) 923-2758
gsigel@jenner.com
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