Project M&A and Joint Ventures
Acquisitions, sales, joint ventures and strategic alliances involving development-stage and operating assets.
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We help move your energy project forward.
Project and deal counsel across utility-scale solar, distributed energy and community solar, battery storage, wind, EV and grid infrastructure, and digital infrastructure and technology.
Industry focus
All we do is energy and digital infrastructure.
Our deep experience in energy and digital infrastructure gives our clients the benefit of broad industry knowledge and relationships. “What are you seeing in the market?” and “Who should we talk to?” are questions our clients ask us all the time.
Utility-scale solarDistributed energy and community solarBattery storageWindEV and grid infrastructureDigital infrastructure and technology
Tenacious, creative and commercially savvy project and deal representation.
Algorithm Law advises on project M&A, joint ventures, financings, offtake, interconnection, construction, procurement and site control, combining legal judgment with commercial awareness, industry knowledge and relationships to provide effective, actionable advice.
Algorithm Law represents developers, independent power producers, capital providers, vendors and technology companies in the energy and digital infrastructure sectors.
Project Finance
Development capital, credit facilities, construction debt, interconnection financing, project equity and other financing arrangements.
Details →Offtake and Interconnection
Power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, interconnection agreements and energy savings agreements.
Details →EPC, O&M, Procurement and Development Services
Development services, construction, procurement, supply and operating agreements across energy and digital infrastructure technologies.
Details →Site Control and Project Real Estate
Purchases, leases, options, easements, licenses and related site-control arrangements.
Details →Ongoing Project and Commercial Counsel
Recurring development, governance, operating-stage and commercial work relating to project portfolios.
Details →Selected matters
Proven Experience
Selected work across project M&A, finance, offtake, interconnection, construction and project operations.
Over the years, we have represented and negotiated with dozens of developers, independent power producers, capital providers, vendors, advisors, counterparties and leading law firms across the industry.
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Portfolio M&A
300 MW
Sale of a 300 MW solar-and-storage portfolio
Advised a developer in the sale of a utility-scale solar-and-storage portfolio in the MISO market.
Structured and negotiated a multiproject portfolio transaction involving development-stage solar and storage assets, milestone-based value and the allocation of development, interconnection and closing risk.
Developer counsel
Louisiana / MISO
Project finance
Multi-project
Interconnection-deposit financing across MISO and PJM
Advised a renewable-energy developer on a financing facility supporting interconnection deposits for projects in two major markets.
Integrated financing, interconnection and portfolio-development issues in a facility designed to fund time-sensitive queue and security obligations across multiple projects and regional markets.
Developer counsel
MISO + PJM
Finance + EPC
Utility-scale
Construction financing and EPC contracting for utility-scale solar
Advised a developer on construction-debt financing and the EPC agreement for a utility-scale solar project.
Coordinated construction-financing requirements with the project’s EPC structure, completion obligations, security package and project-company risk allocation.
Developer counsel
Alabama
Portfolio M&A
65 MW
Multi-tranche sale of a community-solar portfolio
Advised the seller in a series of transactions involving a New York community-solar portfolio.
Negotiated term-sheet and acquisition documentation for a multiproject portfolio with milestone consideration, multiple closings and detailed treatment of program, site-control and development requirements.
Seller counsel
New York / NYISO
Offtake
75 MW
Long-term corporate PPA for utility-scale solar
Advised a renewable-energy developer on a long-term corporate power purchase agreement.
Addressed commercial operation, performance, credit, curtailment and project-development risk in the negotiation of long-term offtake for a utility-scale project.
Developer counsel
Nevada
Project finance + JV
Portfolio
Structured joint venture for solar repowering
Advised a development-capital investor in a joint venture supporting the repowering of operating solar projects.
Structured investment, governance, development and exit arrangements around a portfolio of operating assets requiring additional capital and coordinated repowering work.
Investor counsel
United States
U.S. project experience
Broad reach across geographies, markets and ISOs.
We have a national practice. Our work experience spans 38 states and the major U.S. power markets, encompassing utility-scale and distributed projects, financings, acquisitions and commercial agreements.
Industry-focused lawyers
Lean, high-caliber team.
Founder and Managing Partner
Nick Olmsted
Partner
Hilary Gelsinger
Senior Associate Attorney
Stephanie Schlitter
Associate Attorney
Arifa Ali
Legal Counsel – Platform Operations
Mari Paz Luna
2026-07-28
Alta Wind Court Adopts Cost-Based Approach to Eligible Basis
A July 2026 Court of Federal Claims decision rejected an income-based valuation model and used a modified cost approach in the long-running Section 1603 dispute.
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Contact Algorithm Law regarding a project, transaction, financing, commercial agreement or difficult issue that requires a practical path.