Cleantech & Renewable Energy
Optim Cleantech & Renewable Energy offers ‘cradle-to-success’ legal services for clean technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy business. Our lawyers have decades of legal experience in the fields of project finance, venture capital finance, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, property and environmental law.
Members of the Optim Legal team are well versed in clean, green and renewable technologies. They have acted for a range of organisations applying cutting-edge technology to make more efficient use of key resources while reducing adverse environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewable Energy Projects and Infrastructure
Developers and financiers of renewable energy projects and technologies have access to an elite team of lawyers that combines expertise in the following areas:
- Environment & Planning – navigating the complex environmental and natural resource regulatory environments
- Corporate – joint-venture, partnership and PLC agreements acquisitions, mergers, divestitures and private equity investments in Australia and overseas
- Banking & Finance – project and infrastructure finance, lease financing, mezzanine and subordinated debt financing
- Property – site leases, purchase and sale agreements
- Projects & Infrastructure – preparation and negotiation of power sales contracts, engineering procurement and construction agreements, equipment purchase agreements, operation and maintenance agreements
- Litigation – team members have acted in landmark construction, environmental and planning litigation.
Transitioning companies
We can advise clients in traditional industry sectors who are seeking to respond to the environmental and natural resource imperatives they face in relation to the potential use and sale of greenhouse gas emission reduction and renewable energy credits.
Cleantech ventures
We act as trusted advisers to early-stage ventures advising on:
- business structures, including research and development and other special purpose joint-ventures
- securing intellectual property rights, and other IP issues such as trademarks and licensing.corporate transactions and a range of commercial agreements to support building expansion plans
- private equity transactions and later-stage funding
Supporting a Sustainable Economy
Optim Legal offers a 10% discount to clients whose primary business activity is reducing adverse environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions.
