Christopher T. Demet
Counsel, Corporate & Financial Services
Chris is a Counsel in Willkie’s Corporate & Financial Services practice group, based in the Firm's New York office.
Chris represents clients within the renewable energy industry, including project sponsors, lenders, and investors, in financing transactions including tax equity and debt financings, and in M&A, joint venture, and cash equity transactions, along with other strategic transactions. Chris has represented clients in transactions relating to wind, solar, biofuel, fuel cell, and other energy generating assets.
Chris represents clients within the renewable energy industry, including project sponsors, lenders, and investors, in financing transactions including tax equity and debt financings, and in M&A, joint venture, and cash equity transactions, along with other strategic transactions. Chris has represented clients in transactions relating to wind, solar, biofuel, fuel cell, and other energy generating assets.
Experience
- Recognized in Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, and Compliance by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America.
Represented:*
- Parties to various tax equity and debt financing transactions in domestic wind and solar energy generating
assets under development across dozens of states, including utility scale, C&I, and community solar assets. - Leading solar developer in the tax equity financing, construction and back-leverage debt financing of its 215
MW solar and battery energy storage project located in Arizona. - Global bank in the tax equity financing of a 272 MW solar project located in Texas.
- Buyers and sellers in acquisitions and sales of wind, solar, and biomass energy generating assets, among
other assets. - Joint venture between a leading global investment bank and asset manager in the acquisition of tax equity
interests in 20+ operating wind projects across the US. - Global infrastructure fund in an indirect equity investment in a solar project under development with tax
equity and debt financing in place.
*Certain of the matters listed above were completed while at Chris’s prior law firm.
Credentials
Education
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2014 University of Minnesota, B.A.