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Roger's practice focuses on all aspects of contracting and financing for energy, environmental and infrastructure projects and companies. He has advised lenders, project developers and financial intermediaries in numerous project and structured financings, asset acquisitions, and portfolio divestitures in the US and overseas.
In this connection, Roger has provided counsel for a wide range of energy and environmental regulatory and financial incentive issues. He is also active in the development of innovative fund and risk management programs to facilitate structured and project finance investments.
Currently, Roger is handling the financing of several types of clean energy projects and companies, including ethanol, biodiesel, gasification, biomass, waste-to-energy, wind, solar and landfill gas. He also advises specific projects and emerging companies in the related fields of distributed generation, environmental technology, carbon aggregation and trading, biotechnology products and energy facilities and system security.
Roger has served as Deputy Administrator for Finance and Environment of the Federal Energy Administration, on the Environmental Protection Agency's Financial Advisory Board, on the White House Staff, and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has continued to spearhead legal change in recent years as Chairman of the ABA's Renewable Energy Committee, its Special Committee on Energy and Environmental Finance, and as Chairman of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships. | 