Seth Kirshenberg is a nationally recognized leader in public-private partnerships (P3), structured project finance, and energy projects having served as lead attorney on more than $50 billion in transactions. His practice spans P3, energy production and storage, nuclear energy, energy efficiency, and real estate development. He advises federal, state, municipal and tribal governments, universities, developers, financiers, investors, and rating agencies on acquiring, selling, structuring, developing, operating, and leasing both private and governmental projects. Seth has led some of the largest P3 university and government projects in the country—including energy, housing, hospitals, an NFL stadium, an NBA and NHL arena, data centers, infrastructure, airports, resilience projects, government buildings, and manufacturing facilities. His international experience includes assisting with financing P3 projects in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Central America (some of which were awarded P3 deals of the year).
Seth brings more than 25 years of experience in federal real estate transactions across the United States. He has assisted federal agencies—including military departments, VA, GSA, and U.S. Department of Energy—and state and local governments with P3 arrangements, acquisitions, development, financing, and dispositions. He regularly counsels public and private sector clients on structuring federal acquisitions, dispositions, exchanges, leases, and other complex federal transactions.
Beyond his transaction practice, Seth services as the Executive Director of Energy Communities Alliance the national organization representing local governments adjacent to nuclear energy, DOE, NNSA and national laboratory facilities. He works on nuclear energy policy and projects and is a frequent speaker on nuclear energy issues in domestic and international conferences and meetings. He has published several papers on financing and structuring nuclear energy projects, stakeholder engagement, real estate conveyances, used nuclear fuel issues, and nuclear policy and has worked on federal legislation facilitating nuclear and clean energy development and federal power purchases.
In the energy sector, Seth regularly represents financiers, investors, and developers in energy savings performance contracts (ESPC), utility privatization, and other energy transactions, including those involving tax credits. His project experience encompasses utility-scale battery storage, geothermal, smart-grid technology, photovoltaic systems, low-flow turbine generation, small modular reactors, wind, water, wastewater, and combined heat and power (cogeneration).
