Renewable Energy Site Control: Title Curative Strategies for Defects, Leases, Easements, and Minerals

Ms. Carroll represents clean energy developers with respect to real estate, finance, contract negotiation, and other matters. She advises on utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects regarding long term ground lease provisions, site control and related real estate, title insurance, and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Clean Law, Ms. Carroll worked for industry-leading law firms servicing insurance companies. She has robust insurance coverage experience, having represented clients on a variety of complex issues involving primary and excess general liability, first party property, third party casualty, and bad faith claims. A former litigator, Ms. Carroll has litigated insurance coverage and commercial disputes in federal and state courts across the country.

Ms. Niver represents banks, insurance companies and debt funds in construction and permanent loans, debt restructurings and secondary market transactions, as well as working with market-rate and affordable housing developers and owners on financings, acquisitions and sales, joint venture arrangements, condominium regimes, and leases for all product types, including multifamily, retail, office and hotel, and frequently as part of complex mixed-use development and redevelopment and master planning projects nationwide. In addition to her broad background in CRE finance and development generally, Ms. Niver has had a career-long focus on affordable housing and community development, both as a real estate and commercial finance attorney, and formerly as an urban planner specializing in affordable housing finance and policy. She has extensive experience in community development lending, impact finance syndications and programmatic and policy issues related to affordable housing, and routinely provides legal advice to profit and nonprofit developers, financial institutions, investors, and community development entities engaged in all types of complex real estate development and financing transactions, specifically social impact investing and tax credit finance.

Ms. Yanaki has extensive experience in commercial real estate development matters, including the acquisition, disposition and development of various types of projects, including retail, office, student housing, industrial, educational institutions, and renewable energy. Her practice includes drafting and negotiating transactional agreements, including purchase and sale agreements, lease and sublease agreements, loan agreements, development agreements, guaranties, indemnities, redemption agreements and other ancillary documents, and due diligence review for asset acquisitions and dispositions.