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This interdisciplinary group is adept at handling the intricacies and complexities present in energy and infrastructure projects, including financing – public and private – or tax structures, permitting and zoning, nuanced negotiation and drafting of industry project contracts, loan agreements or credit enhancements, unique regulatory obstacles, and risk allocation among project participants.
Our understanding of the interface of energy and environmental regulation and policy, and a very strong grasp of trends and expectations in real estate development, as well as private equity and commercial banking arenas allow Sullivan to provide comprehensive, cost-effective, solution-oriented representation to our clients, particularly those involved in clean, carbon-neutral and renewable energy transactions and development.
Sullivan attorneys have experience across the range of renewable and other energy subsectors and technologies, including wind, solar, thermal power, combined heat and power, waste-to-energy, biofuels, landfill gas, hydroelectric, green hydrogen and district energy.
Our clients invest and participate in national and international energy markets, particularly in clean and renewable energy, and carbon trading transactions.
Our practice provides a full panoply of transactional services, from individual renewable energy projects to project portfolios:
Our lawyers ably assist clients to integrate new technologies and innovative strategies into the traditional energy markets through creative financing arrangements and tax optimization. Sullivan attorneys draw on the firm’s nationally recognized tax and real estate practices, and our top-drawer regulatory, environmental, zoning and development, corporate and M&A practitioners, to efficiently and effectively close complex financing transactions.
Sullivan attorneys have represented clients in virtually all aspects of domestic and international infrastructure transactions, including public-private partnerships, acquisitions and divestitures (including privatizations), private equity offerings, debt offerings and restructurings, lease transactions, tax equity structuring and workouts.
We have experience assisting in the development and financing of power plants, gas pipelines, electric transmission, renewable energy, cogeneration, combined heating and power, waste-to-energy, hydroelectric projects, airports, LNG, green hydrogen and petrochemical projects.
Sullivan’s Land Use & Permitting practitioners regularly advise their development clients on sustainable and resilient building regulations and climate change policies that directly or indirectly affect individual projects, or industry sectors.
We specialize in advising our life science clients on the increased regulatory and business challenges with building life science development in colder waterfront climates in a sustainable, resilient, and cost-efficient manner. In order to guide our clients through the gauntlet of green policies against the backdrop of increased construction and development costs requires a real understanding of the mechanics of this asset class and also our clients’ underlying business assumptions and economic underwriting.
We also represent clients who develop infrastructure and renewable energy projects as real estate: battery farms, wind farms, solar farms and canopies, and EV-fleet hubs. These developments blend our attorneys’ expertise in real estate development with administrative and regulatory law, and government relations.
Finally, we regularly help our real estate development clients use government money to further their sustainability and resiliency practices and project components. There are currently billions of dollars available through state and federal funding sources to support EV charging, energy transition and other green energy sources. We specialize in advising clients on what programs may offer the best opportunities for their business and product lines. We are also actively representing clients in the ultimate negotiations and transactions necessary for participation in each program.
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Molly Depew will present “Basics of Estate and Trust Administration” at the American Bar Association (ABA)’s Skills Training for Estate Planners, a virtual conference taking place September 17–18 and sponsored by the ABA Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section. The program offers a streamlined, practice-focused introduction to estate planning for attorneys building skills in trusts and estates. Ideal for young lawyers and those transitioning into the field, the course provides
Sullivan & Worcester was featured in Law360 Real Estate Authority's "NYC Real Estate Week In Review," which highlighted the largest New York City real estate transactions recorded during the week. The publication recognized Sullivan's representation of Fattal Hotel Group in its acquisition of the Blakely Hotel, a Manhattan hospitality property located at 136 West 55th Street. The approximately $38.5 million transaction was among the week's largest deals to hit public records.
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Simon Cook, in his role as ITFA's Head of Education, will jointly moderate a Q&A on “The next generation: Three emerging leaders, three ideas”, together with Charlie O'Mulloy, chair of ITFA’s Emerging Leader Committee and Associate Banker at EBRD, at ITFA’s 52nd Annual International Trade and Forfaiting Conference in Split, Croatia on September 9. The Q&A will follow the presentations made by the finalists of the 2026 ITFA Emerging Leader
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced on July 7, 2026, the creation of the Retail Fraud Working Group, a new initiative within the Division of Enforcement designed to identify and combat fraud targeting main street investors. The announcement formalizes a priority that SEC Enforcement Director David Woodcock previewed in his May 13, 2026, remarks to the Managed Funds Association Legal & Compliance Conference, reflecting the current Commission’s broader
Sullivan & Worcester represented Fattal Hotel Group, owner and operator of 329 hotels across 22 countries and based in Tel Aviv, in its acquisition and financing of The Blakely Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The acquisition marks the client's first hotel investment in the United States and is a milestone in its evolution from a leading European hospitality operator into a global hotel group. The acquisition was completed on July 7,
