CleanTech

Regulatory, financial and tech company expertise.

Goodwin’s clean technology and energy practice focuses on entrepreneurs, operating companies, and investors who are pioneers in the clean tech and energy markets. We’re currently counsel to over 500 technology-based clients, including some of the leading wind, solar and biofuels companies and represent 200 venture capital and private equity firms, leveraging relationships with investors on behalf of our clients.

Successful clean tech ventures often bring together different industry and professional sectors. We work the same way, collaborating in interdisciplinary teams to provide more cost-efficient and extraordinarily effective counsel. Our internal network helps clients find private equity financing and secure intellectual property rights. We guide clients through M&A transactions and provide a variety of financial services. We help clients develop and finance clean technology manufacturing facilities and renewable energy power generation projects. Litigators with extensive courtroom experience in the tech sector protect client interests and provide strategies for avoiding litigation when possible. Our collective expertise helps clients capitalize on opportunities while anticipating and minimizing the risks in such ventures.

As part of our client commitment, we’re well attuned to new and evolving government policies that foster growth in the industry. With more than 20 former government officials in our practice, we understand the intricacies of government agencies and the decision-making process, and advocate for fair and reasonable outcomes that will support the future of clean technology.

The energy industry faces a rapidly shifting landscape of market challenges, regulatory hurdles and technological changes.Energy companies consistently rely on Goodwin’s highly successful, multi-faceted transactional, regulatory and litigation practice. We help our clients succeed in nuclear, solar, wind, renewable and alternative energy technologies.

Clients in a broad spectrum of industry sectors including manufacturing, consumer products, hardrock mining, conventional and renewable energy, clean tech, private equity, financial services, educational institutions, and real estate investment and development work with Goodwin’s renowned Environmental Practice to resolve their most difficult environmental challenges. These challenges include multi-party litigation, contested administrative rulemaking and permitting proceedings, new legislative initiatives, major enforcement actions, compliance investigations, Brownfields redevelopment projects, and management of complex sites, particularly those involving contaminated sediments or vapor intrusion.

Companies involved in cross-border transactions face numerous regulatory hurdles relating to issues such as the export and re-export of sensitive goods and technologies; investments and other dealings having national security implications; and relationships with persons and entities that may be governed by U.S. economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption laws. Goodwin’s National Security and Foreign Trade Regulation practice is adept at navigating these hurdles for our clients, who are engaged in a variety of businesses and industry sectors, including technology, clean technology, financial services, transportation, real estate, energy, and defense manufacturing, among others.

As a growing technology company, your prospects are exciting and your challenges are unique – from securing funding, protecting IP, and navigating the regulatory environment, to differentiating yourself in the marketplace, managing customer acquisition and scaling your business. We get it. We are proud to bring a comprehensive, coordinated approach that interconnects business, new technologies and the law.

At Goodwin, we share your entrepreneurial spirit. We developed Founders Workbench, a free online legal advisory resource to help entrepreneurs navigate many of the legal and organizational challenges commonly faced by start-ups and emerging companies. We partner with you to grow your business and realize your potential more effectively – with a combination of legal experience and business savvy that can scale with management teams from the earliest stages of development through mature public company. We support clients at all stages of the corporate life cycle with legal advisory related to company formation, IP protection, licensing, commercial agreements and venture financing to IPOs, M&A, corporate governance, board matters and more.

With 180+ lawyers dedicated to the industry, we have one of the largest and most recognized technology practices in the United States. Consistently rated in the top five most active of all law firms for venture capital, IPOs and M&A, we draw on our deep experience and network of clients and investors to provide the most effective and efficient counsel for today’s emerging companies.

Energy

Environmental Litigation

National Security + Foreign Trade Regulation

Technology