Tom Amis is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Washington office where he co-heads the firm’s Renewable Energy Group. He has developed and financed projects in a number of industry sectors over the course of his career, with an emphasis on electric power projects. For the past six years, his practice has focused on the renewable energy sector.

Mr. Amis leads an integrated renewable energy practice, incorporating expertise in project development and finance, renewable energy policy, carbon management and renewable energy technology. This synergistic approach positions the group to add significant value to renewable energy transactions.

Acting for both developers and lenders, he has negotiated joint development agreements; joint venture, partnership, and other ownership documentation; turbine supply contacts; balance of plant contracts, REC sales agreements; transmission and interconnection agreements; operating agreements; financing documents; and land use agreements. He also is highly experienced in developing projects structured around CERs generated pursuant to the Kyoto protocol.

Mr. Amis received his J.D., with honors, from Columbia Law School in 1982. He received his M.B.A., also with honors, from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, in 1983. Mr. Amis received his M.S. from The London School of Economics and Political Science in 1979, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1978. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2007 and serves as adjunct professor of project finance and renewable energy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He lectures widely on topics relevant to the renewable energy industry.