Craig Kline

Craig founded the firm’s interdisciplinary renewable energy practice. He helps participants in the renewable energy industry, including developers, sponsors, utilities, lenders, lessors, lessees, credit support providers and trustees with construction finance, partnership flips, sale-leasebacks, leveraged transactions and take-out debt. He also helps clients with merger and acquisition transactions, the securitization of financial assets, synthetic leasing, secured lending and bankruptcy.

Craig has served as counsel in more than 500 renewable energy transactions involving a variety of assets and jurisdictions. He has advised in matters involving power and energy generation and distribution facilities as well as maritime assets, telecommunications equipment, real estate, waste facilities and manufacturing plants. In addition to U.S. domestic transactions, he has closed many cross-border transactions in connection with assets or counterparties located in, among other jurisdictions, Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

He is the author of the solar energy portion of the ABA Treatise, The Law of Clean Energy, and has been a Recognized Practitioner in Renewable Energy by Chambers and Partners. Craig is also a Fellow in the American College of Investment Counsel.

Craig is also a member of the firm’s Management Team and Policy Committee.