Nick Olmsted
Founder and Managing Partner
Nick is a renewable energy and infrastructure lawyer with 20+ years of experience and is also a full-stack software developer/engineer. Nick has led legal work on hundreds of major transactions and agreements across the spectrum of renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure development, construction, financing and operation, in dozens of U.S. states as well as a number of foreign jurisdictions. His work encompasses solar, wind, battery storage, EV infrastructure and other technologies and extends to project M&A, debt financings, development capital financings, co-investment transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as construction, offtake, real estate and supply arrangements.
Nick is the chief developer and architect of Algorithm Law’s legal software platform. Nick has also worked on the business side of energy development and financing, having co-founded and sold to an independent power producer a leading commercial solar project finance platform. Prior to launching Algorithm Law, Nick served as General Counsel of several top companies in the energy and technology sectors and worked for seven years on complex financing and M&A transactions at Wall Street firms Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Nick graduated with honors from New York University School of Law and holds additional degrees from Harvard University, the University of Michigan and Vassar College. Nick is a member of the bar in California, New York and Washington, D.C.