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Seth D. Kirshenberg

Partner

Seth is the lead attorney for billions of dollars of P3, energy and real estate structured finance and development projects.  He advises governments, developers, financiers, investors and rating agencies in structuring, developing, operating and leasing private and governmental projects.

Seth is the lead attorney for over $35 billion of P3, energy production, energy storage, nuclear, energy efficiency, and real estate, structured finance and development projects. He advises governments, universities, developers, financiers, investors and rating agencies in acquiring, selling, structuring, developing, operating and leasing private and governmental projects. He has worked on some of the largest P3 university and government projects in the country (energy, military and university housing, hospitals, stadiums, infrastructure, resilience projects, government buildings, and others). He has also worked on financing of international award winning P3 projects.  He acted as lead outside counsel for the Capital One Arena (NBA/NHL) P3 project in Washington, D.C and works on large public development and infrastructure and projects around the country.

In addition, he works on federal real estate transactions throughout the United States. For over 25 years he has assisted local, federal and state governments with some of the largest federal agency acquisition and disposition projects. He regularly counsels’ government and private sector clients on how to structure federal acquisitions, dispositions, exchanges, leases, and other projects.

Seth is also the Executive Director of Energy Communities Alliance the organization of local governments adjacent to nuclear energy, DOE, NNSA and national laboratory facilities. He works on nuclear energy policy and projects and regularly speaks on nuclear energy issues in domestic and international conferences and meetings. He has published several papers on financing nuclear energy projects and has worked on federal legislation facilitating nuclear and clean energy development.

Further, in the energy area he regularly works for the financiers for energy savings performance contracts (ESPC/UESC/ESAs) and other energy projects (with and without tax credits). His projects have included utility scale battery, geothermal, smart-grid, photovoltaic, low-flow turbine generation, small modular reactors, wind, water, wastewater, and co-generation (combined heat and power).  He worked for the utility developing the first SMR in the United States on federal real estate and power purchase agreements.  He also developed several reports for DOE on how to finance nuclear reactors.
 
He has published several books and articles and regularly speaks at national conferences. 
 
 

  • Assists clients to work with various offices and the U.S. DOE and DOD leadership in order to address energy policy and funding issues.
  • Assists several organizations to develop “energy parks” on federal facilities.