Graham Noyes is the Managing Attorney of Noyes Law Corporation (NLC). NLC works solely on fuel and carbon law, particularly the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, other state level fuel policies, 45Z federal clean fuel tax credits and the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. Graham represents low carbon fuel producers, project developers, companies with carbon sequestration technologies, and fuel distributors on state and federal policy campaigns, rule makings, regulatory analysis, and credit generation strategies. For over a decade, Graham has represented SAF producers to establish and expand favorable SAF policies. Graham represented SAF producers in the original coalition effort with A4A, United Airlines and SFO Airport that secured CARB and Oregon DEQ approval for the crediting of SAF in California’s LCFS and Oregon's Clean Fuel Program. He also represented SAF producers in the recent New Mexico rulemaking that established favorable SAF crediting. Graham’s SAF work extends to state, federal and international SAF policies and regulations.
Husch Blackwell is leading the charge for clean energy development. We are an industry-focused law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys, 20 offices across the U.S., and serving clients around the world in all major industries. Our biofuels team represents developers and clients in all facets of project development for renewable products including ethanol, biodiesel, renewable natural gas, landfill gas. Our services include financing; feedstock procurement engineering, procurement, and construction; electricity and gas grid interconnection; energy and co-products offtakes, associated add-on financing and insurance; and the optimization and monetization of tax credits, offsets, and regulatory and voluntary renewable energy credits and attributes. Whether your challenge is the negotiation of feedstock agreements or equity capital formation, Husch Blackwell understands the biofuels industry and partners with emerging and established businesses to secure our nation’s energy future. For more information, visit huschblackwell.com.
Kutak Rock’s Renewable Energy Development group serves clients across the biofuels sector, including plant owner/operators, lenders, insurers, and marketing companies with agribusiness, corporate, finance, land use, merger and acquisition, permitting, securities, tax and regulatory services. Founded and centered in the farm belt, and with over 550 attorneys in 19 offices across the US, Kutak Rock has both the resources and expertise to meet the increasingly complex needs while also understanding the unique perspectives of the SAF industry.
Based in Washington, D.C. and renowned for more than four decades for dedication to the protection, enhancement, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is one of the most highly regarded intellectual property specialty law firms in the world. Its team of attorneys, registered patent agents, technical specialists, specialized trademark paralegals, and law clerks include some of the country’s most respected practitioners of IP law, tackling innovations across a broad spectrum of industries. The firm’s practitioners represent Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups, inventors, venture capital firms, and universities in a client service driven environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. Visit the firm online at sternekessler.com.
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP is a 1350 attorney/45 office international transactional law firm with a focus on energy, chemicals and infrastructure project finance; private placements; tax exempt and taxable bond financings; construction; international; tax and corporate structuring; IP; regulatory and legislative compliance and advocacy; litigation, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution; and other practice areas worldwide.