Gary Barnum,
Partner, Stoel Rives LLP
Gary Barnum has a broad corporate practice, with an
emphasis on finance, tax -
motivated transactions, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
His primary
focus in recent years has been the utility industry,
with particular emphasis in
the renewable energy area. However, he has also a wide
range of experience
representing financial service companies, manufacturers,
retailers, and other
industry groups.
Gary Barnum is listed under the headings of project
finance, and structured and
equipment finance in The Best Lawyers in America®
(2007 edition).
Gary Barnum has handled a wide range of transactions,
including partnership
(and limited liability company) formations and syndications,
mergers and
acquisitions, public offerings, syndicated credit facilities,
private placements,
leveraged lease and project financings, utility financings,
asset backed
financings and securitizations, commercial paper programs,
and derivative
arrangements. In addition to significant experience
in non-recourse and other
project financing arrangements, he has also been involved
with a wide variety
of tax-motivated transactions, including low-income
housing credits and state
tax credit programs, Federal and state energy credit
transactions, and
industrial development and pollution control projects.
Representative Transactions:
· Represented a equity investors in connection
with investments in IRC §45-
qualified Wind Projects throughout the United States.
· Represented developer in connection with the
financing of a 10MW
geothermal electric-generation project.
· Represented a power generation company in separate
transactions in
connection with purchase and sale of multiple power
projects located in
California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan and Nevada
· Represented a power generation company in a
asset-backed private placement of notes, combined with a term loan facility,
involving the
financing of multiple natural gas-fired combined cycle
facilities.
· Represented a power generation company in the
sale of its general
partnership and carried interest in a 240 megawatt natural
gas-fired
cogeneration power production facility (had previously
represented this
company in connection with the original construction
financing, long-term
financing, refinancing and syndication).Represented
a power generation company in the sale of its general
and limited partnership interest in a 25.3-megawatt
waste-to-energy power production facility.
· Represented a power generation company in the
development, construction and financing of several waste
-to-energy
power production facilities.
· Represented a finance company in connection
with the financing of several geothermal power production
facilities.
· Represented a national syndicator in connection
with multiple syndications to various institutional
investors of
investment funds engaged in the acquisition, development
and operation of Federal tax -credit affordable housing
projects throughout the United States.
· Represented developers in the development,
construction and financing of Federal tax -credit affordable
housing
projects throughout the United States.
Professional Activities
Member, Business Section of the Oregon State Bar, the
Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.
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