Cooley Godward Kronish has pulled quite a coup on Alston & Bird. This week, Cooley brought on energy partners Nik Patel and R. Thomas Amis, the latter of whom served as chair of Alston & Bird’s renewable energy group.
In the coming months, Amis said, between 10 and 12 more lawyers will be making the jump from Alston & Bird to Cooley.
At Cooley, Amis will co-chair the firm’s roughly 50-lawyer clean energy and technologies practice. Both Amis and Patel are based in Washington and focus their practices on project development and finance transactions in wind energy, biofuels, biomass electricity generation, waste to energy, carbon mitigation, merchant transmission, energy efficiency, concentrating solar and natural gas.
Amis said he was interested in joining Cooley because it will allow his team, which focuses on renewable energy project development and finance practice, to combine its expertise with the firm’s “existing strengths in the venture capital and technology areas of the energy sector.”
“This was a chance to be part of a game changer,” Amis said. “The clean energy sector is an area with amazing growth potential. Our expertise combined with the firm’s abilities on the technology side of companies makes for a very complementary match.”
Amis said his team does work for a number of renewable energy companies, including Enexco, Iberdrola Renewables, Element Power, Clean Line Energy, and Equilibrium Capital Group.
Dennis Garris, managing partner of Alston & Bird's Washington office, did not immediately return calls for comment.
Isn't this about the 6th Law Firm Tom Amis has been at?
Posted by: K. Butler | March 10, 2010 at 06:14 PM