Keith Martin

Co-Head of Projects, United States
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Keith Martin

Keith Martin

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Biography

Keith Martin is a deal lawyer whose principal areas of practice are tax and project finance. He acted for 204 companies last year. He also lobbies Congress and the Treasury Department on policy issues. The prestigious Chambers directory has called him a "preeminent authority on tax structurings in the US" and gives him its sole "star" ranking among US renewable energy lawyers.


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M.Sc, The London School of Economics
JD, George Washington University
BA, Wesleyan University

  • District of Columbia Bar
  • New York State Bar
  • Who's Who Legal: Project finance
  • Chambers USA, Nationwide: Project finance, band 1
  • Chambers USA,  Nationwide: sole "star" ranking in US renewable energy
  • Chambers Global: renewables & alternative energy and project finance, band 1
  • Legal 500 Hall of Fame, Renewable and alternative energy
  • Highly regarded, Banking – United States, IFLR1000, Euromoney Institutional Investor
  • Washington DC Super Lawyers: tax
  • Global Wind 100 List: number two lawyer globally (after Iberdrola general counsel)
  • Lawdragon 500: Leading dealmakers in America
  • Martindale-Hubbell: ranked "preeminent"
  • Editor, Project Finance NewsWire.
     

He is the author of more than 200 articles and book chapters on project finance subjects, including the following:

  • "Domestic Content Bonus Credit," Special Update, May 2023
  • "Energy Community Bonus Credit Guidance," Special Update, April 2023
  • "Transferability: Selling Tax Credits," Project Finance NewsWire, March 2023
  • "Anti-Circumvention Duties and Solar Panels," Special Update, December 2022
  • "IRS Issues Wage and Apprentice Requirements," Special Update, November 2022
  • "Hydrogen Tax Credits," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2022
  • "Searching for Opportunities in the Inflation Reduction Act," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2022
  • "Carbon Capture Terms," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2022 (co-author)
  • "Effects of the Russian Invasion," Project Finance NewsWire, March 2022
  • "Calculating How Much Tax Equity Can Be Raised," Project Finance NewsWire, March 2022
  • "Solar Tax Equity Structures," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2021
  • "Inbound US Investment Structures for Renewable Energy," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2021
  • "Tax Credits for Carbon Capture," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2021
  • "Partnerships Flips," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2021
  • "Depreciation Bonus Questions Answered," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2020
  • "Cap on Interest Deductions Explained," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2020
  • "COVID-19: Economic Relief Measures for Companies," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2020
  • "Opportunity Zones and Renewable Energy," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2019
  • "Solar Construction-Start Guidelines," Project Finance NewsWire, August  2018
  • "Solar Tax Manual," distributed by the Solar Energy Industries Association
  • "How the US Tax Changes Affect Transactions," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2017
  • "Nuts and Bolts of Financing Storage," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2017
  • "Inverted Leases," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2017
  • "Batteries and Tax Credits," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2016
  • "Utility Solar Tax Manual," distributed by the Smart Electric Power Alliance
  • "Solar Securitizations: Practical Advice," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2016 (co-author)
  • "US Partnerships Get A Makeover," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2015
  • "Lessons from US Offshore Wind Projects to Date," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2015
  • "Line Drawing for MLPs," Project Finance NewsWire, July 2015
  • "Corporate Inversions: Slowed But Not Stopped," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2014
  • "Yield Cos Compared," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2013
  • "Drive to Reduce the Cost of Capital," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2013
  • "Prepaid Power Contracts," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2012
  • "Master Limited Partnerships," Project Finance NewsWire, March 2006
  • "Financing Pollution Control," Project Finance NewsWire, October 2005
  • "Canadian Income Funds," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2003
  • "Tax Issues in Project Sales," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2003
  • "Corporate Inversions," International Tax Review, May 2002
  • "Municipal Power Deals," Project Finance Monthly, February 2001
  • "Latest Tax Angles for Latin American Projects," Practical Latin American Tax Strategies, September 1999
  • Edison Electric Institute tax conference, Washington, June 2023
  • Cleanpower 2023 convention, New Orleans, May 2023
  • Clean Energy States Alliance conference, Washington, May 2023
  • EPRI webinar on energy storage, May 2023
  • Tax Executives Institute, Houston, May 2023
  • Tax credit sales (live podcast), April 2023
  • Infocast wind and solar finance & investment summit, Phoenix, March 2023
  • CERA Week, Houston, March 2023
  • Intersolar 2023 convention, Long Beach, February 2023
  • University of Texas annual renewable energy law conference, Austin, January 2023
  • Infocast projects & money conference, New Orleans, January 2023
  • Cost of Capital: 2023 Outlook (live podcast), January 2023
  • BofA Securities clean energy and hydrogen conferences, New York, December 2022
  • Infocast southeast renewables summit, Charlotte, December 2022
  • "California Burning" (live podcast), November 2022
  • Independent Energy Producers annual meeting, South Lake Tahoe, September 2022
  • Inflation Reduction Act (live podcast), August 2022
  • Infocast CCS and decarbonation summit, Houston, July 2022
  • ACORE annual renewable energy finance forum, New York, June 2022
  • Counsel, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York)
  • Legislative assistant, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington)

Insights

Transferability: Tax Credit Sales

Webinar | April 27, 2023

Cost of Capital: 2023 Outlook

Webinar | January 13, 2023

Book talk: California Burning

Webinar | November 17, 2022