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Description
The increase in SPACs targeting the renewable energy sector is part of a larger trend towards ESG-driven investing. Energy counsel, investors, and sponsors must navigate complex legal, tax, and business challenges associated with SPACs to take advantage of the opportunities they present.
A SPAC is a shell company with no operations listed on a stock exchange to acquire a private company without going through the traditional IPO process. A carefully structured SPAC can facilitate the growth and development of clean energy, but counsel must take various constraints and special considerations into account.
Listen as our panel discusses issues for SPAC formation, tax considerations for structuring transactions, and key challenges for sponsors and investors.
Presented By

Mr. Dundon's practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings and financing transactions, primarily in the energy industry. He has represented large and mid-cap private equity funds and their portfolio companies, as well as large public and private corporations.
Ms. Morgan co-heads V&E’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice group and is a member of the firm’s partnership admissions committee. She is an experienced securities lawyer who focuses on capital-raising transactions for clients in the energy industry and other sectors. Ms. Morgan represents public companies, private companies, investment banks, management teams and private equity in all forms of capital-raising transactions, including IPOs, registered offerings of debt and equity securities, private placements of debt and equity securities, preferred equity investments, at-the-market continuous offering programs (ATMs), tender offers, exchange offers and private debt exchanges. She advises clients, including public companies and their boards of directors, on securities disclosure, corporate governance and compliance matters and ESG matters.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Live Online
On Demand
Date + Time
- event
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
Outline
- Recent developments of SPACs in renewable energy
- Overview of SPACs and key features
- Structuring considerations and issues of concern for sponsors and investors
- Tax considerations
- Best practices for counsel, sponsors, and investors
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Determining the structure of SPACs and other types of investment vehicles for renewables
- How do the incentives created under SPACs differ for the sponsor and the investors?
- What are the potential tax consequences to investors?
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