Elliot Hinds

Elliot Hinds is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Century City office.

Areas of Practice

Elliot focuses his practice on corporate and energy matters. While he is deeply engaged in energy transactions, he also works with clients in a variety of other capital-intensive industries, including manufacturing, health care, and technology.

Elliot works extensively on mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, project development and finance, and joint ventures. The projects he has worked on include renewable energy (including wind, geothermal, solar, and biomass), natural gas, cogeneration and coal-fired electric power, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and bioethanol facilities. He has handled many billions of dollars of energy project finance transactions and worked on some of the first merchant facilities to be developed and/or owned in a fully deregulated environment. He represents several wind and solar energy project developers, technology companies (some of whom bridge the energy and technology sectors), manufacturers of equipment, lubricants, and other products and companies in the health care space.

Honors

Most Influential Minority Lawyers in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Business Journal. 2016

Corporate Lawyer of the Year, Century City Bar Association, 2015

Top 25 Clean Tech Lawyers in California, Daily Journal

Mid-career minority attorneys excelling in the legal profession, Lawyers of Color's Second Annual Hot List for the Western Region of the United States

Insights

Articles

• Community Solar Needs Clear, Flexible State Regulations, Law360, July 17, 2019
• Energy - Rapid Tech Changes Creating Winners and Losers, Electric Light & Power, February 2, 2016
• The Emergence of an Electric Energy Storage Market, Electricity Journal, March 2014
• Creating Financeable Power Purchase Agreements for Military Renewable Energy Projects, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) 2014 Industry Review, February 2014
• Effective Feedstock Management is Essential to a Successful Biomass Conversion Facility, Project Perspectives, Spring 2013
• Feed in Tariffs Emerge As Key Driver for Solar Development, Solar Industry Magazine, 2012
• End of An Era: Keys to Project Finance In A Post-1603 Environment, Solar Industry Magazine, March 2012
• Financing For Renewable Energy Projects - How one community college system overcame financing challenges to build a greener campus, Community College Journal, October/November 2011

Finance & Bankruptcy Law Blog Posts

• Funds Available to Businesses Under the Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act (CARES ACT Title IV), March 31, 2020

Speaking Engagements

•Presenter, It's a Trap: Tools and Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Commercial Contracts, Deal or No Deal 2019: The Rise of the Deal, Santa Clara, CA (November 7, 2019)
•Panelist, Renewable Energy Storage Projects: Financing Options, Deal Structures, Tax Issues, and Regulatory Challenges, Strafford Webinar (May 21, 2019)
•Panelist, Financing & Tax Challenges with Solar + Storage Projects, SEIA Finance & Tax Seminar, New York, NY (March 1, 2018)
•Presenter, Alphabet Soup: Bonds & Tax Credits, Solar Power International, Las Vegas, NV (September 12, 2017)
•Presenter, Financing and Tax Challenges With Solar+Storage Projects SEIA Finance & Tax Seminar, New York, NY (June 1, 2017)
•Presenter, Storage A to Z: Project Lifecycle and Development, 27th Annual Energy Storage Conference and Expo, Denver, CO (April 20, 2017)
•Presenter, Energy Storage Project Development and BESSs: Lessons Learned and Future Solutions, 7th Annual Next-Generation Energy Storage 2017, San Francisco, CA (February 14, 2017)
•Moderator, Guaranteed Performance: Storage Project Financing & Warranties, 26th Annual Energy Storage Association Conference, Charlotte, NC (April 27, 2016)
•Presenter, A Market Making Moment for Large-Scale Energy Storage? 6th Annual Knowledge Foundation Next-Generation 2016 Energy Storage, San Diego, CA (April 18, 2016)
•Presenter, Pushing the Envelope: How California Policy Has Driven an Electric Grid Revolution, AEHS 26th Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air, San Diego, CA (March 23, 2016)
•Speaker, Commercializing Energy Storage Technologies and Financing Renewables, The Knowledge Foundation Next-Generation 2016 Energy Storage Podcast (February 18, 2016)
•Presenter, Dealing with Contingency Terms - Asset Risk Management in Energy Storage Projects,” Infocast's 9th Annual Storage Week, San Diego, CA (January 25, 2016)
•Panelist, How Utilities Make Decisions About Storage, Energy Storage Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX (May 2015)
•Presenter, Standards for Dollars: Embracing Performance Standards That Enable Large Scale Financeability, Energy Storage Association 25th Annual Conference and Expo, Dallas, TX (May 27-29, 2015)
•Panelist, Solar + Storage, Solar Power Generation 2015, San Diego, CA (February 4, 2015)
•Panelist and Moderator, Solar + Storage hybrid systems, Webinar (December 18, 2014)
•Speaker, Pricing Energy Storage + Solar, Solar Power International 2014, Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2014)
•Speaker, Market Drivers Realizing the Value of Energy Storage, PV America 2014, Boston, MA (June 24, 2014)
•Speaker, Energy Storage Mandate in California - A Progress Report on Procurements, California Energy Summit, San Francisco, CA (May 28, 2014)
•Speaker, Assessing Storage Roles, Requirements and Procurements, 7th Annual Storage Week, Santa Clara, CA (February 12, 2014)
•Moderator, The Evolution of Debt Financing Panel, Infocast Wind Power Finance & Investment Summit 2014, San Diego, CA (February 5, 2014)
•Speaker, The Future Of The Industry: How Will The Dust Settle? Opening Keynote Plenary, 6th Annual Solar Power Generation (SPG USA 14), San Diego, CA (February 4, 2014)
•Speaker, Market Trends in Renewable Energy Project M&A, Renewable Energy Law Conference, San Diego, CA (January 23, 2014)
•Speaker, Trends in Solar M&A, Webinar (November 19, 2013)
•Speaker, Financing Energy Storage Projects - Making a Market to Attract Investment, Power-Gen International, Orlando, FL (November 12-14, 2013)
•Speaker, Strategic Alliances, Solar Power International Conference, Chicago, IL (October 23, 2013)
•Speaker, Energy Storage & Financing: New Market Opportunity, Solar Power International, Chicago, IL (October 2013)
•Speaker, Financing Vehicles for Tribal Energy & Telecommunication Projects, NAFOA's 2013 Fall Finance & Tribal Economies Conference, Seattle, WA (September 9, 2013)
•Speaker, Renewable Energy Investment, IRS Investment, Tax Credit and the Solar Opportunity, (National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development), RES, CA, Temecula, CA (June 18, 2013)
•Moderator, Obstacles to Scaling Storage Solutions: Cost and Corporate Strength of Solution Providers, Infocast 6th Annual Storage Week 2013, Austin, TX (April 4, 2013)
•Speaker, Deal Structuring: Current Options and New Directions - Panel Discussion, Finance, Solar Power-Gen 2013 Conference, San Diego, CA (February 13-15, 2013)
•Speaker, Penetrating Niche Markets: Sports Teams, Nonprofits, Schools & Military, PV America East Conference, Philadelphia, PA (February 5-7, 2013)
•Speaker, CEO Panel, Solar Power Generation USA, Newport Beach, CA (January 15-16, 2013)
•Speaker, Tribal Renewable Energy Solutions and Partnerships: Collaborating through the Headwinds of Change Workshop, RETECH Conference, Washington, D.C. (October 14-16, 2012)
•Speaker, 2012 Fall Finance and Tribal Economies Conference, San Diego, CA (September 10-11, 2012)
•Speaker, Tribal Economic Development Conference, Native Nation Events, San Francisco, CA (May 30-June 1, 2012)
•Speaker, Tribal Energy Panel, NAFOA Conference, New Orleans, LA (March 19-21, 2012)