プロフィール
Ashley Keenan represents developers, lenders, equity investors, sponsors, and utilities in project development, project finance, and corporate transactions related to electrical generation, energy technology development, and infrastructure projects. She works with companies across the energy and banking sectors, handling mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and debt and equity financings.
Ashley focuses her practice on renewable energy, conventional energy, and infrastructure development. She guides clients through the complexities of project finance, helping structure and negotiate financing arrangements for wind, solar, storage, and other renewable energy facilities. Her work includes drafting and negotiating power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, and construction contracts. Ashley also handles regulatory compliance matters and assists clients in navigating federal and state permitting processes for energy projects.
In corporate transactions, Ashley represents buyers, sellers, and investors in acquisitions and divestitures of energy assets and companies. She structures joint ventures between developers and investors, negotiates equity investments in renewable energy projects, and advises on corporate reorganizations. Her finance work encompasses representing borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured credit facilities, project financings, and capital markets transactions.
Concentrations
- Energy project M&A and finance
- Energy project finance and development
- Renewable energy and energy storage projects
- Electric vehicles and EV deployment models
- Joint ventures
- Water and sustainable infrastructure
- Midstream LNG
- Infrastructure finance
- Digital infrastructure
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Represented a multinational insurance company in connection with a joint venture for the development of fiber networks in the United States.°
- Represented a multinational electricity and gas utility company in an agreement to sell the company’s U.S. onshore renewables business.°
- Represented a solar developer in connection with the construction financing and mezzanine loan for a 185 MW ac solar plus co-located 400 MW energy storage system.°
- Represented a global investment firm in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of community solar projects in development in the United States.°
- Represented a solar owner, operator, and developer in its acquisition of late-stage development community solar projects in the northeastern United States.°
- Represented a wind and solar developer in connection with construction financing for several wind and solar projects subject to build transfer agreements.°
- Represented a private equity fund in the sale of a U.S. utility-scale renewable energy platform.°
- Represented an energy infrastructure holding company in the sale of tax credits associated with renewable natural gas facilities, a transaction that marked one of the first tax credit transfers following the enactment of the transferability provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. Separately assisted on the original acquisition and development of the renewable natural gas projects and had been advising them on potential traditional tax equity structuring ideas when the option of a sale of the tax credits became viable.°
- Represented a developer, operator, and owner of wind, solar, and battery-storage energy projects in North America in the acquisition of an approximately 300-megawatt battery storage project under development.°
- Represented an American utility and power generation company in a tax equity financing of a four-hour battery storage system, with an approximate capacity of 80 megawatts.°
- Represented an energy infrastructure holding company in its joint venture to develop, own, construct, and operate renewable natural gas projects in the United States.°
- Represented a global manager of alternative investments in connection with a senior secured credit facility for an innovative, U.S.-based real estate company focused on delivering solar developers and landowners the maximum value for their solar land and leases to finance the next stage of growth of the borrower’s platform including financing land for solar, battery storage, and other energy transition projects in the United States.°
- Represented a private equity sponsor in an acquisition financing of a fixed base operator located in the southeastern United States and a senior secured term loan.°
- Represented an independent power producer in the refinancing for its 1,050-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas-fired generation plant.°
- Represented an American utility company in its acquisition of an early stage, estimated 159 megawatt solar generation project.°
- Represented an insurance company in connection with a $100 million investment in a leading provider of intelligent solar, storage, and electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for commercial and industrial customers.°
- Represented an independent power producer and solar developer in a $175 million corporate financing transaction.°
- Represented an independent power producer and solar developer in a joint venture with a private equity sponsor to fund the development of large solar-plus-storage projects in the southwestern United States.°
- Represented a lender in connection with the $450 million acquisition project financing of an 850-megawatt dual-fuel, simple-cycle power generation facility.°
- Represented an American utility company in its purchase of an operating 199-megawatt wind energy facility.°
- Represented an independent distributed generation solar power producer that acquires, co-develops, constructs, finances, owns, and operates distributed and small utility-scale solar and storage projects throughout the United States in its sale.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Keenan prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Attorney, Greenwood Energy, 2015-2016
- Counsel, Atlantic Power Corporation, 2012-2015
- Law Clerk, First Wind Energy, LLC, 2011-2012
- Legal Intern – Renewable Energy Bylaw Research, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, 2011-2012
受賞歴・所属団体
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Corporate Law, 2025
- Member, Boston Bar Association, 2012-Present
学歴・資格・言語
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法務博士, Suffolk University Law School
- Blog Editor, Journal of High Technology Law
- B.S., Business Administration, cum laude, Suffolk University
- Massachusetts
- 米国 ニューヨーク州