Justin Boose

Justin Boose is an energy partner specializing in conventional and renewable energy transactions and domestic energy security matters. He is located in the firm's Los Angeles office.

Areas of Practice

Justin is well known in the energy industry for representing sponsors, developers, investors, private equity and infrastructure funds, and regulated and nonregulated utilities on all types of transactions for renewable and traditional energy projects. His experience is heavily concentrated in solar, wind and energy storage projects, but also includes fuel cell, anaerobic digester, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, cogeneration, ethanol, biogas, biomass, waste-to-energy, water, carbon capture and mitigation, green hydrogen, electric vehicle charging, e-mobility and energy efficiency projects. He advises clients at every step of the project life cycle, including origination, development, construction, finance, operation and disposition.

Justin has long been recognized as an innovative thought-leader in the renewable energy community. His clients are breaking new ground in the development and deployment of energy transition technologies and sustainable infrastructure development. He is privileged to work with them in creating a sustainable energy transition.

Justin regularly handles tax equity transactions (partnership flip, leasing structures), debt transactions (term debt, mezzanine debt, construction debt, back-leverage), private equity investments (internal rate of return-based flips, general partner/limited partner structures), merger and acquisition transactions (membership interest/asset purchase agreements) and project development transactions (purchase power; engineering, procurement and construction; operation and maintenance; and related service agreements).

Justin also represents clients on energy trading and hedge transactions (power, renewable energy, natural gas, renewable energy certificates and emissions allowances) and is conversant with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), Edison Electric Institute (EEI), North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) and other standard and nonstandard form trading documentation.

Honors

• Leading Lawyer - Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy, Chambers Global, 2025
• Leading Lawyer - Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy, Chambers USA, 2024, 2025
• Energy Law, Best Lawyers, 2023-2025
• Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, The Legal 500 USA, 2023, 2024

Articles

• "Renewable Financing: A Closer Look at YieldCos," North American Clean Energy, January-February 2015
• "US Project Finance: Key Developments and Trends," Practical Law, 2014
• "Understanding Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariffs," North American Clean Energy, July-August 2014
• "The Case for Solar REITs," Renewable Energy World, February 2013

Speaking Engagements

• "Fireside Chat: New Structures in Tax Equity Finance," Infocast Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit, March 16, 2025
• "Fireside Chat: Pushing the Envelope: New Frontiers in Project Finance," Infocast Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit, March 12, 2024
• "Projects & Money," January 17-19, 2024
• "Energy Storage as Grid Assets: Expanding Transmission Capacity to Accelerate Renewable Growth," February 15, 2023
• "The Business Case for Green Hydrogen," January 25, 2023
• "The Portfolio Effect: Financing Issues in Community Solar and C&I," Infocast Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit, March 9, 2022
• "Solar Market Outlook and Business Development Landscape Executive Briefing," Infocast Solar Power Finance and Investment Summit, March 2018
• "Shark Tank," Storage Week Conference, February-March 2018
• "Energy Private Equity Fund," Stafford Webinar, 2017
• "Storage Financing Vehicles," Infocast Storage Week Summit, 2017
• "Ancillary Markets – Compensation for Providing Stabilization Services to Renewable Generation," Infocast Projects and Money Conference, 2017
• "Track One Session," Infocast Solar Power Finance and Investment Summit, March 2016
• "Overcoming the Challenges of Grid-Connected Storage Projects," Infocast Storage Week, January 2016
• "Power Market Outlook – Development Opportunities and Performance Standards," Infocast Projects and Money, January 2016
• "Bringing Storage to the New York Market," Infocast Storage Week, March 2015
• "Tax Equity, Structures and Their Impact on Issuers and Investors," Infocast Solar Securitization Summit, September 2014
• "Net Metering: Outlook and Implications for Eastern Solar Markets," Infocast Distributed Solar East Conference, March 2014
• "How to Sell Your Project to an Aggregator," Infocast Solar Power Finance and Investment Summit, February 2014
• "Regulator and Utility Perspectives on Distributed Solar Generation," Infocast Distributed Solar East Conference,
  June 2013
• "Strategies in Accessing Capital," Infocast Distributed Solar East Conference, April 2012
• "Utility Perspectives on Distributed Solar Generation," Infocast Distributed Solar East Conference, April 2012

Memberships

American Bar Association

Energy Bar Association

New York State Bar Association