JD, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1983
MPA, Harvard University, 1979
MA, Yale University, 1976
BA, cum laude, Harvard University, 1974

• District of Columbia Bar
• Massachusetts State Bar

US Department of Energy project financings

• Represented the following project sponsors that successfully closed DOE loan guarantees for solar power generation projects:
  • BrightSource Energy in the $1.6 billion financing of the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which, when completed, will be the largest solar project in the U.S.;
  • Sempra Generation in a $359 million loan guarantee for the construction of the 150 MW Mesquite photovoltaic solar power project in Arizona;
  • Cogentrix of Alamosa LLC for a $90.6 million loan to support one of the first, and the largest, utility scale, concentrating photovoltaic energy generation facilities; and
  • Prologis in a partially DOE-guaranteed $1.4 billion loan to support the installation of approximately 733 MW of photovoltaic solar panels on industrial buildings across the U.S.
• Represented the following project sponsors that successfully closed DOE loan guarantees for wind power generation projects:
  • Caithness Energy and GE Energy Finance in the multi-phase development and approximately $2 billion financing of the 845 MW Shepherd's Flat wind project in Oregon;
  • FirstWind Energy in the $117 million financing of the 30 MW Kahuku wind and battery project in Hawaii; and
  • Yale University and Wagner Wind Energy LLC in the $102 million financing of the 50 MW Record Hill wind power plant in Maine.
• Represented in other successfully closed DOE-guaranteed financings:
  • Credit Suisse as lead lender in the $937 million partially DOE-guaranteed financing of NextEra's 250 MW Genesis solar thermal project under construction in Riverside County, California, including a $702 million offering of pass-through certificates issued under Rule 144A, a $150 million bank loan facility and an $85 million letter of credit facility;
  • Grupo ACS and Banco Santander S.A. as equity investors in the 110 MW Tonopah thermosolar electric generation project being developed by SolarReserve in Nevada; and
  • Abound Solar Inc. in a $400 million DOE-guaranteed financing for its construction of two photovoltaic panel manufacturing facilities.

Cross-border transactions

• Representing Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) and two Chilean commercial banks in their $99 million project co-financing of the 144 MW Atacama PV solar project being developed in northern Chile by Canadian Solar.
• Represented the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) in the $900 million project financing of the 450 MW open cycle gas-fired Azura Power Project in Nigeria and in a $500 million trade financing for Naftogaz, the natural gas utility of Ukraine.
• Represented Actis in connection with financing provided by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for the 100 MW Kepito Wind Power Project in Kenya.
• Represented Longwing Energy in connection with OPIC's $150 million financing of the 98 MW first phase of the Zaporizhia Wind Power Project in Ukraine.
• Represented Goldman Sachs as hedge provider in connection with the financing provided by Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for the 258 MW Taiba Ndiaye wind power project in Senegal.
• Represented the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in:
  • a proposed guaranty of obligations of the Ministry of Transportation of Argentina in connection with a portfolio of highway PPPs; and
  • its $70 million investment in a total $175 million securitization program over diversified payment rights (DPRs) arising primarily out of remittances to persons in El Salvador from family members abroad.
• Represented the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the OPEC Fund for International Development and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration in an approximately $150 million of senior secured loan facilities to finance a 73 MW portfolio of utility-scale solar projects in Honduras.
• Represented IDB, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO) and Banco Internacional del Perú S.A.A. (CAF) in their $140 million project financing of Maple Energy's $254 million ethanol production facility with an associated 37 MW power plant and sugar plantation.
• Represented OPIC in:
  • the restructuring of the Dabhol Power Project (India) and in related political risk insurance claims;
  • the development of a guaranty against devaluation risk for $300 million in project bonds for the AES Tiete Hydropower Projects (Brazil);
  • settlement of the Alliant Kyiv expropriation claim against the Government of Ukraine pursuant to which OPIC recently reopened its investment-promotion programs in Ukraine; and
  • the updating of its form of political risk insurance contract for equity investors.
• Represented the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in connection with:
  • the development of a "guarantor-of-record" political risk guaranty which supported financing for the Phu My 2.2 power project (Vietnam);
  • political risk guaranties provided jointly MIGA to support financing for the Phu My 3.0 power plant (also in Vietnam); and
  • the formation of its standard partial (political) risk guaranty.
• Represented Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P. in:
  • its successful bid to purchase in a privatization the controlling interest in Companhia de Transmiss o de Energia Eletrica Paulista SA (CTEEP), the São Paulo state power transmission company, Brazil's second-largest power transmission company, and in a related interim financing package and its replacement with a $554 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering; and
  • the financing by the IDB and CAF of an expansion of the electrical transmission system in Bolivia.
• Represented Endesa (Chile) in the monoline-insured bond financing of two toll roads, Autopista del Sol S.A. and Autopista Los Libertadores (Chile).

• Acritas Star, Acritas, 2019 – 2021
• Who's Who Legal, project finance, Law Business Research Ltd., 2018 – 2019
• Chambers Global, Projects (USA), Chambers and Partners, 2006 – 2017, 2019 – 2023
• Chambers Global, Energy, Latin America – wide, Chambers and Partners, 2006 – 2017 
• Chambers USA, Nationwide: Projects; Chambers and Partners, 2005 – 2020, 2022 - 2023
• Chambers USA, Nationwide: Projects: PPP; Chambers and Partners, 2023
• The Best Lawyers in America, project finance, Best Lawyers, 2006 – 2015, 2018 – 2021
• Best Lawyers - Project Finance Law, Best Lawyers, 2022 - 2024
• Washington DC Super Lawyers, International, Thomson Reuters, 2013 – 2021
• Recommended lawyer, Banking and finance and Projects and energy, Legal 500 Latin America, 2018
• Client Service All-Star, BTI Client Service All-Stars report, 2017 – 2018
• Recipient of the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award for the Graduate Program at Georgetown University Law Center, 2011 – 2012
• Expert Guides, Project Finance, Legal Media Group, 2020

• "Ex-Im Bank Expanding Domestic Finance Options, Project Finance NewsWire, June 2022"
• "Sophisticated Use of Political Risk Insurance, Project Finance NewsWire, March 2022"
• "Buying American for Infrastructure, Project Finance NewsWire, December 2021"
• "EXIM Has Work to Do at Home," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2020
• "DFC Launches the DFC-DPA Loan Program," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2020
• "DFC Replaces OPIC," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2020
• "FOIA: Keeping Information Confidential," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2019
• "DOE Loan Guarantee Program: New Rules," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2016
• "World Bank Guarantees for Private Projects," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2016
• "More US Loan Guarantees for Distributed Generation," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2015
• "DOE Nuclear Loan Guarantees: Part Deux," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2014
• "DOE Window Reopens for Renewable Energy Loan Guarantees," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2014
• "DOE Reopens for Renewable Energy Loan Guarantees," Project Finance Newswire, April 2014
• "Power Africa: Market Reactions to the Obama Initiative: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2013
• "Powering Africa," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2013
• "DOE Loan Guarantees for Advanced Fossil Fuels: They’re Back!," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2013
• "Federal Loan Guarantees for Projects in Rural Areas," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2013
• "Feed-In Tariff Insurance," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2012
• "USDA Loan Guarantees: A Viable Alternative for Renewable Energy Projects?," Project Finance Newswire, March 2011
• "DOE Loan Guarantee Update; Negotiations with the US Department of Energy over loan guarantees for innovative and renewable energy projects have been moving much faster," Project Finance Newswire, January 2011
• "Next Generation Vehicles: Opportunities and Obstacles," Bloomberg Law Reports, November 8, 2010
• "US Department of Energy Moves on Loan Guarantees," Project Finance Newswire, February 2010
• "DOE Moves on Loan Guarantees," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2010
• "DOE’s Open Window for Loan Guarantees for Conventional Renewable Energy Generation Projects," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2009
• "DOE Loan Guarantee Program Developments," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2009
• "Financing Renewable Energy Projects After the Stimulus," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2009
• "Heavy Demand for DOE Loan Guarantees," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2008
• "A BIT of Insurance," International Political Risk, Moran, West and Martin, editors, The World Bank Group, 2008
• "Tactics When Caught in an Expropriation," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2007
• "The Dabhol Power Project Settlement: What Happened and How?," Infrastructure Journal, December 2005
• "PRI and the Rise (and Fall?) of Private Investment in Public Infrastructure," Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005
• "Tales from the Dark Side: Lessons Learned from Troubled Investments, International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future," The World Bank Group, 2005
• "Political Risk Insurance and Project Workouts, Cross-Border Debt Restructurings," Euromoney, 2005
• "The Next Frontier: Subsovereign Projects," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2004
• "Managing Political Risks in Emerging Market Investment," The Transnational Lawyer, 2004
• "Help for Projects in Developing Countries," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2003
• "The Rise (and Fall) of Private Investment in Public Infrastructure," International Political Risk Management: The Brave New World, The World Bank, 2003
• Co-author, "Political Risk Coverage: What’s New?," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2001
• "Spotlight on Political Risk Insurance," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2001
• "New Product For Devaluation Risk," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2001
• "The Multiple Pledge-of-Shares Problem: Report of a Little Progress, International Political Risk Management: Exploring New Frontiers," The World Bank, 2001

Ken's most recent speaking engagements include:

• Panelist, "Guidelines to Government forScaling-up Renewable Energy Projects," EnergyNet Powering Africa Conference, Miami, FL, February 2020
• Panelist, "Frontier Markets and the BUILD Act," NY Society of CFAs, New York, NY, December 2019
• Keynote, Millennium Challenge Corporation's "MCC College," September 2017
• Speaker, "Financing Private Sector Renewable Energy Projects," in the World Bank's Legal and Judicial Development Week program, Washington, D.C., December 2016
• Panelist "Step-in Rights in Project Financings," International Bar Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, September 2016
• Panelist "Innovative Financing Techniques for Renewable Energy Projects," conference sponsored by Siemens Financial Services and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, March 2016
• Panelist, "Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Projects," Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association's Section on International Law, New York, April 15, 2016
• Panelist, “Investing in Infrastructure, Doing Business in and with Emerging Markets,” Practising Law Institute, New York, July 9, 2015
• 2015 LAC Workshop, International Finance Corporation, Buenos Aires, April 28-29, 2015
• Panelist, “Products, Policies and Underwriting Considerations in a Volatile World,” TFX Washington: Agency and Project Finance, Washington, DC, April 22, 2015
• Turkey Infrastructure and Energy Finance Seminar, London, May 29, 2014
• Moderator, “The Arab Spring: Dawn or Sunset for MENA Project Financings,” Focus on Emerging Markets: Energy Explosion, Washington, DC, January 10, 2013
• Seminar on Multilateral Agency Project Finance and Political Risk Insurance, Istanbul, Turkey, March 20, 2012
• Solar Power in Emerging Markets: A Tutorial, San Francisco, CA, December 7, 2011
• Panel moderator, “U.S. Distributed Solar Markets: Outlook and Analysis,” Infocast's Distributed Solar West Summit, San Diego, CA, November 30, 2011
• Second Annual Focus on Emerging Markets Conference, Washington, DC, November 16, 2011
• Panel moderator, “Mexican Energy: New Developments in Renewable Energy, Independent Power Projects and Natural Gas Supply,” Platts 15th Annual Mexican Energy Conference, Houston, TX, November 15, 2011
• Panelist, “DOE Loan Guarantee Program,” Infocast Solar Power Conference, Newark, NJ, June 10, 2011
• Speaker and panelist, “DOE Loan Guarantee Program,” Energy Bar Association's Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 9, 2010
• Moderator, “Changing Perceptions of Risk in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis,” Seventh Biennial MIGA-Georgetown Symposium on International Political Risk Management, Washington, DC, October 28, 2010
• Chairman, Kyrgyz Opportunities Forum 2: Stabilizing Today, Prospering Tomorrow, with H.E. Roza Otunbayeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Washington, DC, September 23, 2010
• Panelist, KPMG Conference on Solar Energy, Jersey City, NJ, September 22, 2010
• “What Makes Green Energy Different," Focus on Emerging Markets, Washington, DC, September 16, 2010
• Speaker and Moderator, “Negotiating the DOE Loan Guarantee Process,” Infocast's 4th Annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration Summit 2010, Washington, DC, July 13, 2010
• Moderator, DOE Loan Guarantee Program, Infocast Conference, Washington, DC, March 29, 2010
• Speaker, “Status Report - The Loan Guarantee Program,” Infocast’s Projects and Money Summit, New Orleans, LA, January 10, 2010
• Moderator and panelist, “Thin Film Finance and Legislation,” Thin Film Summit, San Francisco, CA, December 1-2, 2009
• Moderator and panelist, “Using Loan Guarantees in Renewable Energy Finance,” Infocast Renewable Energy Summit, Washington, DC, November 10, 2009
• Panelist, “DOE Loan Guarantees - The Window to Apply for Guarantees for Mainstream Renewable Energy Projects is Open,” Infocast Webinar, October 15, 2009
• Panelist, “$30b DOE Loan Guarantee Rounds 3 &4 SOLICITATIONS - Application Procedures and Strategies for Commercial Energy Efficiency,” Alternative Energy, Advanced T&D and Transmission Infrastructure Projects, Infocast Webinar, August 19, 2009
• Webinar on the DOE Loan Guarantee Program sponsored by the Solar Energy Industries Association, August 4, 2009
• Webinar on the DOE Loan Guarantee Program sponsored by the American Wind Energy Association, July 21, 2009
• Panelist, “The New Energy Financing Mechanisms Created by ARRA--Status and Outlook for Game-Changing Structures,” Infocast Webinar, June 18, 2009
• Program moderator, First Annual OPIC Investor Conference, May 19, 2009
• DOE Loan Guarantee Program Update, American Wind Energy Conference, Chicago, IL, May 6, 2009
• Panelist, “Aftermath of the Dabhol Settlement,” International Bar Association conference on International Project Finance, Washington, DC, April 24, 2009
• DOE Loan Guarantee Program: Issues and Update, Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual meeting of the Lawyers’ Committee, Washington, DC, March 3, 2009
• Panelist, DOE Loan Guarantee Webinar, Infocast Webinar, March 5, 2009
• Panelist, “How the Stimulus Bill Will Affect the Market: Opportunities - New Projects, New Sources of Money,” Webinar, February 19, 2009
• Speaker, “Briefing on the Economic Stimulus Bill Moving through Congress,” Infocast Webinar, Jan. 30, 2009
• Commentator, “Emerging Issues, Opportunities and Challenges for the Political Risk Insurance Industry,” MIGA-Georgetown Symposium Washington, DC, December 4, 2008
• Panelist, “Project Finance – Private Perspectives,” Egypt-U.S. Finance Conference, Cairo, Egypt, November 12, 2008
• Panelist, “Petroleum Politics: The Squeeze on Foreign Operators,” LatAm Oil and Gas Congress, Houston, TX, October 15-17, 2008
• Panelist, “Private Investment in Power Projects,” US-Africa Infrastructure Conference, Washington, DC, October 7, 2008
• Speaker, “DOE Loan Guarantee Program Update,” 2008 Project Finance Conference, Amelia Island, FL, May 15-16, 2008
• Panelist, “Euro 2012: Infrastructure Needs and Investment Opportunities,” Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY, March 17-18, 2008
• EDC Legal Symposium, sponsored by Canada’s Economic Development Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 18-19, 2008
• “Emerging Political Risks and Options in the Southern Cone,” Association of International Petroleum Negotiators Regional Conference, Santiago, Chile, November 12, 2007
• “Insuring Political Risk in Oil and Gas Projects,” Marsh’s Oil, Gas and Energy Investments Seminar, Houston, TX, June 19, 2007
• “Update on the DOE Loan Guaranty Program for Novel Technologies,” Chadbourne Global Energy and Finance Conference, Deer Valley, UT, June 14-15, 2007
• Moderator, “Risk Mitigation Case Studies from the MDB's Private Sector Arms: Emerging Markets and Public-Private Partnerships,” Banking on Development Conference 2007, The U.S. Commercial Service and the World Trade Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, March 16, 2007
• Moderator, “Global Sourcing and the Global Lawyer,” Georgetown Journal of International Law 2007 Symposium, Washington, DC, January 24, 2007
• “Bolivia and Beyond – Breach of Contract and International Expropriation,” American Society of International Law Seminar, Washington, DC, May 2006
• “Lessons from Recent PRI Claims, Near Claims and Non-Claims," Seventh Annual Structured Trade & Export Finance in the Americas, Miami, FL, February 23-24, 2005
• “Tales from the Dark Side -- Political Risk Lessons Learned from Recent Investment Disasters,” International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future: Identifying and Managing the Critical Challenges Facing the Market, Washington, DC, November 12, 2004
• “ADB-IBC Political Risk,” Project/Trade Finance & Export Credit Summit 2004, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, November 2004
• “Increasing Capital Flows to Africa,” Corporate Council on Africa and U.S. Export-Import Bank Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2004
• “Why Your Arbitration Agreement Matters: Anticipating Disputes in International Transactions,” DC Bar Program, Washington, DC, May 2004
• Middle East Roundtable, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Washington, DC, April 2004
• United Nations Business Council’s Workshop on Emerging Market Finance, New York, NY, March 2004
• Panelist, Sixth Annual Structured Trade and Export Finance in the Americas Conference, Miami, FL, February 2004
• “Issues in Structuring International Project Financings,” Seoul, South Korea, November 7, 2003
• “Tales from the Dark Side: Lessons Learned from Recent Investment Disputes,” Fourth Annual Political Risk, Trade Credit & Project Finance Summit, Manila, Philippines, November 3, 2003
• “Legal Issues in Structured Export Finance in the Americas,” Fifth Annual Structured Trade and Export Finance in the Americas Conference, Miami, FL, February 26, 2003
• “The Role of the Multilateral and U.S. Financial Agencies,” The Decline of Financial Capital in Latin America, New York, NY, November 2002
• “International Political Risk Management: The Brave New World,” MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium, Washington, DC, October 25, 2002

• Appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, 2016 - 2018
• Associate General Counsel for Investment, Assistant General Counsel, Senior Commercial Counsel and Counsel, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), 1986 - 1995
• General Counsel, Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1995 - 1999
• Professorial Lecturer, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, 2000 - present
• Adjunct Professor:
  • Georgetown University Law Center, 1991 - present
  • Boston University Law School, 1992 - 1999
  • National Law Center at The George Washington University, 1992 - 1994
  • Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, 1993
• Member: American Bar Association; American Society of International Law; American Economic Association; Washington Foreign Law Society (president, 2004 - 2005)