David Burton

Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

New York
United States
T:+1 212 318 3311
New York
United States
T:+1 212 318 3311
David Burton

David Burton

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Biography

David Burton advises clients on a wide range of US tax matters, with an emphasis on project finance and energy transactions. He has extensive experience structuring tax-efficient transactions for wind and other renewables with particular expertise with respect to flip partnerships and sale-leasebacks.  David also advises clients on the tax aspects of the formation and structuring of private equity funds with particular expertise regarding renewable energy investment funds.

Earlier in his career, David was the managing director and senior tax counsel at GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS) where he oversaw all of the tax aspects for more than US$21 billion in global energy projects. During his tenure at GE EFS, the division's investments in wind, solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal power grew to US$6 billion, making GE EFS  then the largest tax-advantaged energy investor in the US. He is ranked in The Legal Power List 'A Word About Wind' 2016, 2018 and 2022 and has been ranked for the past nine consecutive years in Chambers USA, Nationwide (Projects – Renewables and Alternative Energy). He is the co-author with Richard Wright of the treatise Equipment Leasing: Tax Principles and Structuring. David is the editor of www.TaxEquityNews.com, a Norton Rose Fulbright website covering market trends and considerations for renewable energy and tax policy in the United States. Follow David on Twitter @DavidKBurton.


Professional experience

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  • JD, cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, staff member, The Tax Lawyer, 1996
  • BA, magna cum laude, Ithaca College, 1993
  • New York State Bar
  • Represented Eolian L.P., a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners, in the first-of-its-kind tax equity financing of two standalone utility-scale battery storage projects in Mission, Texas.
  • Represented C2 Energy Capital LLC on tax and project finance in the sale of a majority interest in its 89 MW operating distributed generation solar platform, C2 Omega LLC, to EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA), forming EDPR NA DG.
  • Represented TortoiseEcofin on the initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange of an open-end fund, Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust plc (RNEW). The offering uses a tax-efficient UK trust structure to expand global investment in US renewable energy projects.
  • Represented C2 Energy Capital, LLC with respect to tax and project finance matters with respect to the formation of its first private equity fund, C2 Taiyo Fund I, LP. 
  • Represented Fengate Real Asset Investments on development finance and co-development arrangements for a utility-scale wind project in Maine.
  • Represented Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC on the acquisition by its closed-end fund, Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Fund, of a 33-megawatt portfolio of commercial and industrial solar projects portfolio from Kenyon Energy and its affiliate Sun Financial. The solar projects will provide electricity to various university and municipality customers in the State of New York.
  • Represented Sustainable Power Group (sPower) as tax counsel in the 61 MW Latigo Wind Farm Project.
  • Represented Sunpower as tax counsel in the 135 MW Quinto Solar Project in Merced County, California. Also represented Sunpower as tax counsel in the 579 MW Solar Star Project in Rosamond, California.
  • Represented Campbell County Wind Farm Holdings in the sale of a 95 MW wind farm in South Dakota to Consolidated Edison Development.
  • Represented a residential solar developer in the creation of a US$58 million tax equity fund for a portfolio of residential solar projects.
  • Represented a publicly traded company in the acquisition of an entity holding a US$107 million portfolio of land and payments from land leases underlying wind and solar projects, including more than 7,500 acres of land leased to three solar projects with a value of approximately US$60 million and the payments from 11 additional land leases for a portfolio of wind projects with a value of approximately US$27 million.
  • Advised Tri Global in connection with a turbine supply agreement with Alstom Power under which equipment manufacturer will provide turbines for Tri Global's 80 MW Fiber Winds Energy project in Texas.
  • Represented OneRoof Energy Group, Inc. in an IPO/reverse merger transaction pursuant to which OneRoof Energy, Inc., a national residential solar company, became a wholly owned subsidiary of a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
  • Representation of State Street Bank & Trust in connection with the US$260 million in tax equity financing for the Buffalo Dunes, a 250 MW wind project in Kansas backed by subsidiaries of Enel Green Power and GE Capital.
  • Representing SunPower Corporation in the development and sale of the 580 MW Antelope Valley photovoltaic solar project (AVSP) to affiliates of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company. The project will utilize SunPower's proprietary photovoltaic modules and tracking technology, and its electricity will be sold to Southern California Edison Company under long-term power purchase agreements. SunPower will build and operate the project for MidAmerican. Construction of the project has commenced, and commercial operation is expected in 2015. When completed, AVSP will be the largest solar energy project in the world.
  • Represented Rabobank International as a lessee in a pass-through lease for photovoltaic solar energy equipment installed on stores in the Western United States.
  • Acted as special tax counsel to NRG Energy and its California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR) project in connection with inclusion of CVSR in NRG's public offering of securities in Yieldco.
  • Advised a foreign and domestic wind turbine manufacturer regarding Treasury Grant matters.
  • Advised Hunt Investment Management LLC on the formation of a fund to invest in US renewable energy projects.
  • Acted as project counsel for Treasury Grant and tax matters in the financing of California Valley Solar Ranch, a US$1.5 billion solar PV project supported by a Department of Energy loan guaranty.
  • Represented SunPower in connection with a sale and leaseback of photovoltaic solar energy equipment to be installed in California.
  • Distinguished Legal Writing Award (Law Firm), 2016 Burton Awards
  • Chambers USA, Nationwide: Projects: Renewables and Alternative Energy, Chambers and Partners, 2015 – 2024
  • Chambers Global, Projects: Renewables and Alternative Energy - USA, Chambers and Partners, 2018 – 2024
  • Legal 500 US, Recommended Lawyer, US taxes: contentious, The Legal 500, 2020 – 2024
  • Legal 500 US, Recommended Lawyer, Energy: Renewable / Alternative Power, The Legal 500, 2021-2022, 2024
  • Legal 500 US, Recommended Lawyer, Project Finance – Advice to Sponsors, The Legal 500, 2021
  • Legal 500 US, Recommended Lawyer, Energy Transactions: Conventional Power, The Legal 500, 2021
  • Legal 500 US, Recommended Lawyer, International Tax, The Legal 500, ​2020
  • The Best Lawyers in America, Energy Law, Best Lawyers, 2025
  • Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, Lawdragon, 2025
  • Legal Power List, A Word About Wind, 2016 - 2020, 2022

Authored

  • Author, "New York’s Clean Energy Financing & Investment Landscape: Where do Capital Providers see Opportunities," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, July 10, 2024
  • Author, "Equipment Leasing and the Passive Activity Loss Rules," Monitor Daily, April 5, 2024
  • Co-author with Richard Wright, "Equipment Leasing: Tax Principles and Structuring," Portfolio 545-3rdBloomberg Tax, November 2023
  • Co-author with Keith Martin, Hilary Lefko and Gabrielle Jacques, "Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements," Norton Rose Fulbright – Project Finance NewsWire, August 31, 2023
  • Co-author with Spencer Tweed, Patrick Klein, Julian Torres and Andrew Waranch, "PFR Tax Equity Roundtable 2023," Power Finance & Risk, August 2023
  • Co-author with Hilary Lefko, "Transferable Tax Credits Treated Favorably Under the OECD's Pillar Two," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, July 20, 2023
  • Co-author with Keith Martin and Hilary Lefko, "Purchase Price Allocations," Norton Rose Fulbright – Project Finance NewsWire, June 23, 2023
  • Co-author with Keith Martin and Hilary Lefko, "IRS Transferability Guidance," Norton Rose Fulbright – Project Finance NewsWire, June 23, 2023
  • Co-Author, "Chapter 32: Leasing Outside the United States: Pickle, Loss Trapping, Subpart F, and Foreign Tax Credits," PLI's treatise "Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing (Sixth Edition), May 2023
  • Co-author, "ITC and PTC Cheat Sheet," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, May 18, 2023
  • Co-author with Bryen Alperin, "Tax Credit Insurance Mitigates Risk for Tax Credit Transfers but Due Diligence is Still Necessary," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, May 1, 2023
  • Author, "Energy Community Qualification and IRS Rules for Unemployment Data," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 21, 2023
  • Author, "Are you using the right version of the IRS's energy community notice," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 13, 2023
  • Author, "Overview of Energy Tax Credits After the IRA," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 10, 2023
  • Author, "The Solar + Wind Finance and Investment Summit Soundbites: the Corporate Offtake and M&A Markets," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 4, 2023
  • Author, "FASB's proportional amortization method for tax equity deals ain't all it's cracked up to be," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, March 30, 2023
  • Author, "The Solar + Wind Finance and Investment Summit Soundbites: the Debt and Sponsor Equity Markets," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, March 22, 2023
  • Author, "The Solar + Wind Finance and Investment Summit Soundbites: the Tax Equity Market and Transferability," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, March 20, 2023
  • Author, "What did we learn from the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit Guidance?," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, March 3, 2023
  • Author, "IRA Tax Credit Opportunities for Clean Energy Technology Companies," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, December 20, 2022
  • Author, "IRS Confirms Higher PTC Rate due to the IRA," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, November 15, 2022
  • Author, "Battery storage tax credit opportunities and development challenges," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, November 11, 2022
  • Author, "The IRA's Expanded Tax Credits for Homeowners and Energy Efficiency Investors," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, September 21, 2022
  • Co-author with Hilary Lefko, "Q&A on the Inflation Reduction Act," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, August 19, 2022
  • Author, "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – New Tax Credits for Manufacturers of Clean Energy Equipment," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, August 11, 2022
  • Author, "Transferability ain't all it's cracked up to be," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, August 1, 2022
  • Co-author with Hilary Lefko, "Capital Account Implications for Renewable Energy Tax Credits Webinar: Q&A," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 27, 2022
  • Author, "Soundbites II from Solar + Wind Finance and Investment Summit 2022," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, May 3, 2022
  • Author, "Soundbites from Solar + Wind Finance and Investment Summit 2022," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 14, 2022
  • Author, "Ampersand clarifies power project placed-in-service analysis," Law360, March 14, 2022
  • Author, "Desert Sunlight Opinion Sheds Light on Purchase Price Allocations For ITC," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, January 5, 2022
  • Author, "Direct pay ain't all it's cracked up to be," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, January 5, 2022
  • Author, "IRS Extension Is Partial Relief For Renewable Energy Projects," Law360, November 7, 2021
  • Co-Author, "Taxation of proxy revenue swaps for renewable energy projects," Tax Notes, October 13, 2021
  • Author, "Final regulations complicate bonus depreciation for a sponsor's buyout of a tax equity investor," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, September 23, 2021
  • Co-Author, "Taxation of Proxy Revenue Swaps For Renewable Energy Projects," Tax Notes, September 6, 2021
  • Author, "Final regulations complicate bonus depreciation for a sponsor's buyout of a tax equity investor," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, July 6, 2021
  • Author, "ITC recapture following a casualty event," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 9, 2021
  • Author, "Lessons from Tax Court's Nixing of Investor's Energy Credits," Law360, April 12, 2021
  • Author, "Tax Credits: On the Horizon," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, March 26, 2021
  • Author, "Sponsors may Claim a Bonus Depreciation from Buyouts of Tax Equity Investors," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, February 11, 2021
  • Author, "2020 - A Switchback Year for Tax Equity," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, January 14, 2021
  • Author, "Tax Credit Extensions Enacted into Law," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, December 29, 2020
  • Author, "Renewable Energy and Carbon Sequestration Tax Credit Extensions in Relief Bill," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, December 22, 2020
  • Author, "The 2020 Tax Equity Market: The Switchback Year," Project Finance International, December 18, 2020
  • Author, "Carbon sequestration tax credits," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, August 26, 2020
  • Author, "Investing in US Solar: US Tax Aspects for Japanese Investors," Tax Equity News, August 8, 2019
  • Author, "Bonus depreciation proposed regulations: previously-owned property," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, July 16, 2020
  • Author, "Bonus depreciation proposed regulations: Floor plan financing," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, July 8, 2020
  • Author, "Bonus depreciation proposed regulations: Leasing to a utility," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 24, 2020
  • Author, "Massachusetts Property Tax Risk for Net Metered Solar Projects," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 5, 2020
  • Author, "Q & A – Investment Tax Credits and Storage for Renewable Energy," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, May 26, 2020
  • Author, "PLR Allows Utilities to Buy Power From Their Own Tax Equity Partnership," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 13, 2020
  • Author, "PLR Allows Utility to Buy Power From Own Tax Equity Partnership," Tax Notes, March 27, 2020
  • Author, "Demystifying capital accounts in tax equity transactions webinar: Q&A," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, March 25, 2020
  • Author, "Carbon capture tax credit guidance issued by the IRS," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, February 20, 2020
  • Author, "Soundbites from Infocast's Wind Power & Finance Summit," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, February 10, 2020
  • Author, "Are you using the right version of the IRS's Solar Start of Construction Notice?," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, September 5, 2019
  • Author, "Recent IRS Notices Blow Favorable For Wind Projects," Law360, July 19, 2019
  • Author, "Two Favorable IRS Notices: "Start of Construction" Relief for Department of Defense Delays and PTCs Increased from $24/MWh to $25/MWh," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, July 15, 2019
  • Co-author with Keith Martin, "Recent Tax Equity Rulings And The Renewable Energy Sector," Law360, June 26, 2019
  • Author, "Claims Court finds related-party developer fee lacks economic substance," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 21, 2019
  • Author, "New Financial Products for Project Financiers," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 10, 2019
  • Author, "Soundbites from Novogradac's Renewable Energy Conference," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 4, 2019
  • Author, "Soundbites from Infocast's Solar Power & Finance Summit," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, May 28, 2019
  • Author, "Greentech Media's Renewables Financing Briefing Soundbites," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 16, 2019
  • Co-author, "How the New Tax Law Blue Book Impacts Regulated Utilities," Law 360, January 30, 2019
  • Author, "Tax Credit Eligibility of Reflective Roofs to Bolster Solar Production," Tax Notes, July 18, 2016
  • Author, "Tax-Friendly Docs Can Lower Renewable Energy Project Cost," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, June 26, 2018
  • Author, "Offshore wind advantages over onshore wind," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 20, 2018
  • Co-author, "2018 and Onward: The Impact of Tax Reform on the Renewable Energy Market," Pratt's Energy Law Report, March 2018
  • Author, "The Impact of Tax Reform: What Equipment Leasing Companies Need to Know," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, January 19, 2018
  • Author, "The Dramatic Arc of the PTC," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, October 2, 2017
  • Co-Author, "Arizona Companies Win Preferential Tax Treatment for Solar Panels," State Tax Notes, July 10, 2017
  • Author, "Tax Credit Eligibility of Reflective Roofs to Bolster Solar Production," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, August 1, 2016
  • Author, "The "Right" way to Model the Timing of Recognition of ITC," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, August 2, 2016
  • Author, "Dominion Takes on Normalization Rules," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, April 2, 2016
  • Author, "IRS Rules on Late Solar Inverted Lease Elections," Tax Notes, March 21, 2016
  • Co-Author, "Transferable Tax Credits: 3 Taxpayer Lessons from Oregon's Debacle," State Tax Notes, February 1, 2016
  • Author, "Tax Court Sheds Light on Counting Hours For the 'Material Participation' Exception to the Passive Activity Loss Rules," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, January 22, 2016
  • Author, "Tax Court Levels Taxpayer's Weak Theories in Rent Accrual Case," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, September 28, 2015
  • Author, "IRS Private Letter Rulings Conflicted On Solar Tax Credits," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, December 15, 2014
  • Author, "Project Finance Developer Fees Explained," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, November 25, 2014
  • Author, "How Wind Developers Raise Equity In Public Markets," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, May 31, 2014
  • Author, "Salesman Penalized for 'Placed in Service' Interpretation," Tax Notes, February 17, 2014
  • Author, "An Analysis of U.S. Energy Policy Objectives: Green and Brown Power Options Examined," Norton Rose Fulbright - Tax Equity News, December 18, 2013
  • Author, "Base Jumping," Asset Finance, December 2012/January 2013
  • Author, Asset Finance, December 2012,  Article discusses developments in US tax policy that have caused a sharp decrease in tax equity investors
  • Co-author, "Tax Considerations in M&A Transactions Tax Considerations in M&A Transactions," Thomson Reuters Westlaw Business Law Currents, January 24, 2012
  • Co-Author, "Tidewater: The Fifth Circuit's Muddy Service Contract Analysis," Tax Notes, November 30, 2009
  • Co-author, "Are You Properly Pricing Your Medical Equipment Leases (or Other Leases to Tax-Exempt Entities) Given the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004?" Equipment Leasing & Finance Magazine, 2005
  • Author, "The Constitutionality of Retroactive Changes to the Code: United States v. Carlton," Tax Lawyer, 1995

 

Quoted in media

  • Quoted, "Trump has derided Biden’s Landmark Climate Programs. Would he ditch hydrogen?," The Allegheny Front, October 25, 2024
  • Quoted, "Due Diligence and How to Prepare For Tax Credit Transfer Audits," Tax Notes Federal, October 21, 2024
  • Quoted, "The election: How each candidate is likely to affect the future of M&A," The M&A Journal, August/September 2024
  • Quoted, "Is Fractional Ownership Required By the Investment Tax Credit?," Tax Notes Federal, October 14, 2024
  • Quoted, "Market Analysis: Revised tax equity rules spur renewables sector relief," Infralogic, September 13, 2024 
  • Quoted, "Softened US Basel rules bode well for clean energy financing," International Finance Review, September 13, 2024
  • Quoted, "High court decision could create uncertainty for energy sector," Infralogic, June 28, 2024
  • Quoted, "News analysis: IRS guidance opens door for domestic content bonus," Infralogic, May 25, 2024
  • Quoted, "A Guided Tour of the Final Transferability Regs," Tax Notes Federal, May 6, 2024
  • Quoted, "Finalized tax credit transferability rules feature few surprises," Infralogic, April 25, 2024
  • Quoted, "Proposed ITC Regs Receive Wide-Ranging Comments," Forbes, February 5, 2024
  • Quoted, "'Three Pillars' Crowned in Proposed Hydrogen Regs," Tax Notes, January 22, 2024
  • Quoted, "Tax equity: dipping into the transfer market," Power Finance & Risk, January 8, 2024
  • Quoted, "Solar tax credit transfer market gains momentum," pv magazine, November 16, 2023
  • Quoted, "Biden's climate fight now has a Fed problem," Politico, October 31, 2023
  • Quoted, "Fintech platforms attempt to democracize tax equity," Power Finance & Risk, October 16, 2023
  • Quoted, "A New Green Tax-Credit Market Is for Corporations. Some Wealthy People Want In," The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2023 
  • Quoted, "News Analysis: Transfer Market Expected to Explode Despite Preference for Tax Equity," Inframation News, July 24, 2023
  • Quoted, "Required Summer Reading From the IRS: Transfer and Elective Payment Rules," Tax Notes Federal, July 10, 2023
  • Quoted, "Tax equity: long-awaited guidance on transferability arrives," Power Finance & Risk, June 26, 2023
  • Quoted, "Almost Ready for Applications: The Low-Income Communities Bonus," Tax Notes, June 19, 2023
  • Quoted, "Clean Energy Companies Race to Prepare Tax Credit Applications," Bloomberg Tax, June 1, 2023
  • Quoted, "Domestic Content Guidance for Renewable Energy Credits Seen as 'Elegant Compromise," Inframation News, May 13, 2023
  • Quoted, "Treasury Details Tax-and-Climate Law Energy Community Rules," Bloomberg Tax, April 4, 2023
  • Quoted, "Energy Storage Gets Boost," Hart Energy, April 4, 2023
  • Quoted, "News Analysis: Why the First ITC-Backed Battery Storage Deal is Uncontracted," Inframation News, February 27, 2023
  • Quoted, "Energy Storage Projects Ready To Reap Tax Credit Rewards," Law360, February 17, 2023
  • Quoted, "Congress Pushes US Energy Transition Through Tax Credits — But Will It Work?" Forbes, January 20, 2023
  • Quoted, "Green-Energy Boom Hinges on Obscure Tax Rules," The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2022
  • Quoted, "Latest IRA guidance to spur construction," Power Finance & Risk, December 1, 2022
  • Quoted, "An early obstacle for climate law: Hiring," POLITICO, October 11, 2022
  • Quoted, "25% Chip Tax Credit Sparks Interest Amid Uncertainty," Law360, August 12, 2022
  • Quoted, "News Analysis: Under IRA, tax equity gets a facelift," Inframation News, August 10, 2022
  • Quoted, "Joe Manchin's Quest to Keep Clean Energy Tax Credits Broken," Epoch Times, June 22, 2022
  • Quoted, "IRS pushes out safe harbor deadline for US renewables," IJ Global, July 2, 2021
  • Quoted, "IRS Notice gives renewables developers breathing room," Power Finance and Risk and Inframation News, July 1, 2021
  • Quoted, "Accounting Rules for Energy Tax Credits Divide Utilities, Solar Producers," The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2021
  • Quoted, "News Analysis: Texas hedge, tax-equity markets go topsy-turvy," Inframation News, March 8, 2021
  • Quoted, "Stimulus bill to boost offshore wind development," Inframation News, December 22, 2020
  • Quoted, "Execution mode" – Tax equity scopes out carbon capture tax credits," Power Finance & Risk, July 2, 2020 and IJ Global, July 8, 2020
  • Quoted, "Energy Outlook: Forget the ITC and PTC for Wind and Solar, Here's 45Q," Inframation News, March 17, 2020
  • Quoted, "Historic Treasury Yield Lows Inspire Mixed Reactions in Project Finance," Power Finance & Risk, March 13, 2020
  • Quoted, "PTC Extension Earns Mixed Reviews From Renewable Industry," Inframation News, December 26, 2019
  • Quoted, "U.S. Sponsors Steer Solar Equipment into TaxCredit Safe Harbor," Power Finance & Risk, October 11, 2019
  • Quoted, "Silicon Ranch Plots Solar Sale-Leaseback Switch," Power Finance & Risk, August 8, 2019
  • Quoted, "Congressman Proposes Extending Tax Credits for Wind Projects," Inframation News, " June 20, 2019

Mentioned in the media

  • Mentioned, "Cross-Border Deals Boost Lawyers," Project Finance International, November 20, 2019
  • Mentioned, "Movers and Shakers in Americas Law," Project Finance International, November 20, 2019
  • Mentioned, " News analysis: Renewable energy investing under a Trump administration," Infralogic, November 1, 2024

  • "The Emerging Landscape of Green Finance in the US," JFI panel, September 23, 2024
  • "How Investors Are Addressing the Climate Emergency," CleanTechIQ/Transition-IQ  forum, September 23, 2024
  • "Prevailing Wage and Apprentice Rules Training Video," Webinar, Augsut 14, 2024 
  • "Harvard Kennedy School Lecture: Tackling Climate Change with Tax Credits," Webinar, April 17, 2024  
  • "Purchasing Renewable Energy Credits Amid the Inflation Reduction Act: Deal Terms and Key Considerations," Strafford webinar, August 1, 2024
  • "David Burton on Energy Tax Credits in the Inflation Reduction Act," Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, November 16, 2023
  • "Cleantech and Sustainability - episode 2," Standard Chartered US Podcast, November 6, 2023
  • "Cleantech and Sustainability - episode 1," Standard Chartered US Podcast, November 1, 2023
  • "Purchasing Renewable Energy Credits Amid the Inflation Reduction Act: Deal Terms and Key Considerations," Strafford Webinar, July 12, 2023
  • "The Economic and Investment Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022," Sustainable Finance in Fixed Income Conference, Fordham University, April 20, 2023
  • Summit Chair. NY Energy Summit, Albany, April 4 - 6, 2023
  • "Inflation Reduction Act," Norton Rose Fulbright Webinar, August 11, 2022
  • "Capital account implications for renewable energy tax credits," Norton Rose Fulbright Webinar, June 22, 2022
  • "Renewable energy finance and tax trends for 2022," Norton Rose Fulbright Webinar, February 1, 2022
  • "Renewables and reconciliation: What the current policy debate means for clean energy," Infralogic "Crossroads" Podcast, October 6, 2021
  • "Investor Forum: Where the Money is Going," Webinar, A Word About Wind, September 2, 2020
  • "Carbon sequestration tax credits," AirMiners, August 26, 2020
  • "Demystifying capital accounts in tax equity transactions webinar: Q&A and video," Norton Rose Fulbright and Pivotal 180 Webinar, March 25, 2020
  • "Investing in Solar: The Distributed Generation Market & Tax Incentives" Northeastern University, Boston, January 29, 2020
  • "Investing in US Solar: US Tax Aspects for Japanese Investors," Japan Institute for Overseas Investment, Tokyo, August 6, 2019
  • "Hot topics in renewable energy tax, engineering and finance," Norton Rose Fulbright, Alfa Energy Advisors and DNV GL Seminar and Webinar, April 23, 2019
  • "Renewable Energy Tax Credits," Novogradac's 2019 Financing Renewable Energy Tax Credits Spring Conference, San Francisco, May 23, 2019
  • "Tax Reform and Renewable Energy: Planning Techniques, Loopholes, 100% Expensing, BEAT, Credits and Deductions," Strafford Webinar, January 16, 2019
  • "Window of Opportunity: The IRS Issues Initial Guidance on Qualified Opportunity Zone Rules," Panel, November 2, 2018
  • "Renewable Tax Equity Structuring," Webinar, October 23, 2018
  • "Tax Equity Structuring and Impact of Potential Tax Reform," Webinar, June 28, 2017
  • "Tax Equity Structuring and Impact of Potential Tax Reform," Seminar, New York, May 2, 2017
  • "Structuring, Modeling and HLBV Accounting for Tax Equity," Seminar, Chicago, June 29, 2016