Jonathan Wilcon

Jon helps project developers, traditional and alternative investors, lenders, utilities, energy service providers, and commercial energy users pursue the increasing opportunities created by new energy policies and technologies, with a particular focus on the growing opportunities relating to offshore wind and energy storage. Jon is an active member of the firm’s renewable energy and energy storage working groups.

• Ongoing representation of an offshore wind project in development in the New York Bight
• An alternative asset manager in a corporate acquisition and financing of a solar development platform expected to develop 500 MW of solar projects throughout the United States
• An alternative asset manager in a corporate acquisition and financing of a solar development platform expected to develop 600 MW of solar projects throughout the United States
• An alternative asset manager in a corporate acquisition and financing of a solar development platform
• A large US bank as a tax equity investor in several utility-scale solar projects in Texas
• A large US bank as a tax equity investor in a utility-scale wind project in Texas
• A large US bank in connection with the restructuring of a tax equity partnership owning a large solar project in Texas in response to the effects of Winter Storm Uri
• A US developer owned by a publicly traded energy company in its diligence and acquisition of several solar development pipelines
• A US insurance company in its disposition of a portfolio of tax equity interests in wind and solar projects
• A US-subsidiary of a European utility in its investment in a development-stage US offshore wind port and staging yard
• Ongoing representation of a private equity–backed solar developer in its acquisition, development, and financing of community solar projects
• A large US developer of utility scale solar and wind projects in the negotiation and execution of multiple build-transfer agreements providing for the development, construction, and disposition of utility-scale solar and wind projects to a regulated utility
• BP in its $1.1 billion formation of a strategic partnership with Equinor to develop offshore wind projects in the United States, including the development of at least four major projects within existing offshore wind leases on the US east coast and jointly pursuing further opportunities for offshore wind in the United States
• An overseas joint venture in its initial investment into the US solar market, including acquisition of a portfolio of utility scale solar projects, ongoing development work (negotiation of construction, procurement, and power purchase agreements as well as corporate structuring), negotiation and management of a joint development agreement with a US developer, and debt and tax equity financing
• A developer in connection with its founding, setup and funding, and the development and sale of solar development projects throughout the northeast United States