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Solar Financing Tax Equity Structures: Sale-Leasebacks, Inverted Leases, and Partnership Flips

Choosing the Right Structure, Weighing Advantages and Drawbacks of Various Structures

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Description

There are currently three main tax equity structures for financing solar energy deals: sale-leasebacks, inverted leases, and partnership flips. There are also several variations on these basic structures.

Supply-chain difficulties and current tax law are forcing some changes in deal papers. Congress has restored and added clean energy tax credits and other incentives to their full level and also imposed several paragraphs of fine print in the form of wage, apprentice, and domestic content requirements.

Listen as our authoritative panel discusses the pros and cons of the various structures and the impact of recent regulations on deals and other current issues.

Presented By

Gabrielle Jacques
Senior Counsel
Norton Rose Fulbright, LLP

Ms. Jacques is a Senior Associate in Norton Rose Fulbright's New York office. Gabrielle's practice is focused on federal income tax law, with particular emphasis on renewable energy transactions.

Hilary Lefko
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright, LLP

Ms. Lefko focuses her practice on all areas of federal income tax law, with a particular emphasis on tax controversy and renewable energy tax issues. She represents developers and investors in various energy and renewable energy projects, including transactions involving section 45 production tax credits for the production of electricity from renewable resources, including the purchase and sale of wind, open-loop biomass, landfill gas, geothermal and refined coal facilities. Ms. Lefko also advises on section 48 investment tax credits for solar projects, the Section 1603 Treasury Grant Program and other renewable energy incentives.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, November 1, 2023

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  1. Current state of the solar finance market and trends for the near future
  2. Choosing the appropriate tax equity structure
    1. Sale-leaseback
    2. Inverted lease
    3. Partnership flip
  3. Evaluating the tax risks
  4. Current issues in deals

The panel will review these and other noteworthy issues:

  • When to choose one structure over another
  • What are the main issues on which the parties spend the most time in negotiations?
  • What is the current market on such things as construction-start strategies, developer fees, basis step-ups, change-in-law risk, flip yields, DROs, tax insurance, unwinds, and withdrawal rights?