Seth Doughty focuses his practice on transactional matters in the energy industry with a special emphasis on power procurement, tax equity financing, and build-transfer agreements. He has a focused interest in energy storage projects and is a co-author of the United States’ Department of Commerce’s forthcoming Understanding Energy Storage handbook.

In the power procurement area, Seth has drafted and negotiated a wide variety of power purchase agreements, contracts for differences, and other purchase and sale agreements, including for energy, capacity and resource adequacy, renewable energy credits, energy efficiency and distribution deferral products. He is experienced in handling procurement of offtake from conventional, renewable and energy storage technologies for both the “in-front-of-the-meter” and “behind-the-meter” projects. He has represented utilities, developers, and corporate buyers in regulated and unregulated markets.

In the tax equity space, Seth has acted for Sponsors and Tax Equity Investors in nearly 3 gigawatts of tax equity investments for solar, wind, and hybrid energy storage projects throughout the United States. He has represented either the purchaser or the seller in build-transfer agreements relating to over 3 gigawatts of solar, wind and battery storage capacity in regulated and unregulated spaces.

Prior to joining the firm, he worked in-house at one of the largest Southern California utility companies. There, he gained experience drafting and negotiating a variety of power procurement agreements and valuable insights about utility customers.

While in law school, Seth was a senior editor for the Southern California Law Review.

As a member of the Corporate Department, Debra focuses her practice on renewable energy transactions, general corporate matters, franchising, licensing and distribution matters, as well as other business growth strategies.

Debra’s corporate practice includes counseling clients, both publicly and privately held, on transactions related to capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, brand extension programs, joint ventures and strategic alliances in a variety of industries. She has extensive experience advising clients on renewable energy transactions, including the structuring, development and financing of renewable projects throughout North America and Europe. Debra has served as counsel for major investment banking clients, large developers, sponsors, utilities, and other lenders and investors in the development, implementation, acquisition, structuring and financing of renewable assets, including the negotiation of acquisition and financing documents (including tax equity and back leverage), strategic investments, PPAs, EPCs, and various agreements related to state and local incentives and renewable energy credits.

Debra also counsels clients on distribution, franchise and dealer relations, terminations, transfers and regulatory compliance. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions involving franchise systems, development of domestic and international franchise strategies, preparation of franchise and license agreements and related disclosure materials, advising on compliance programs and distributor consolidation matters, as well as franchisee and dealer terminations. She has worked with hundreds of franchisors and suppliers in a wide variety of industries, including energy, food service, retail, beverage (alcohol and non-alcohol), hospitality, automobile rental, convenience store, sports and entertainment, cosmetology, healthcare, real estate, industrial goods, clothiers, cosmetics, and residential and light commercial services.

Debra has served as pro bono counsel to the National Association of Women Business Owners, coordinates the Firm’s staffing of, and regularly volunteers at the D.C. Bar’s Landlord Tenant Resource Center, and has provided pro bono legal assistance to multiple charitable organizations, including FAIR Girls, No One Left Behind, UNITAS, the Human Rights Campaign and the Northern Virginia Coalition.

Advises leading energy and infrastructure developers, investors, lenders and Fortune 500 companies on complex project development, project finance, M&A and strategic capital transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Leads major digital infrastructure matters at the convergence of data centers, power and capital, including powered-site development, hyperscale power arrangements, project and infrastructure finance, strategic investment and platform transactions.

Guides clients across the full infrastructure lifecycle, from development, commercialization and financing through growth capital, acquisitions, dispositions and other strategic transactions.

Advises renewable energy and storage developers on sophisticated project financings, tax equity and tax credit transactions, PPAs and other commercial arrangements, including projects positioned to serve rapidly growing data-center and technology-sector electricity demand.

Advises governmental and private-sector clients on strategic capital and critical supply-chain investments involving energy, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing and infrastructure supporting the AI economy.