Jocelyn Lavallo
USA Guide 2023
Band 3 : Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
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Experience
Jocelyn E. Lavallo’s practice focuses on the financing, development, purchase, and sale of energy and infrastructure projects, with a primary concentration on solar, wind, and energy storage transactions in the United States. She regularly represents financial institutions and developers in a variety of complex project financings, including construction and term debt financings, partnership flips, sale/leasebacks and asset acquisitions and sales. Jocelyn is on the Advisory Board for Foley’s Energy Sector and is also a member of the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Team.
Jocelyn has led numerous financing transactions involving dozens of large utility solar and wind projects and over a thousand commercial and industrial solar and solar+storage projects. She has also advised clients in the development, sale, and financing of projects involving newer technologies, including energy efficiency equipment, fuel cells, EV charging stations, biogas/RNG, microgrids, and combined heat and power plants (CHP). She also works extensively with “as a Service” contracts for the provision of a wide range of energy and energy-adjacent services.
Jocelyn has extensive experience with drafting and negotiating EPC contracts, equipment supply contracts, and operations and maintenance agreements for renewable energy projects, as well as a deep understanding of various types of revenue contracts and other project documents for utility scale and C&I projects. She is the author of the comprehensive “C&I Solar Due Diligence Review Manual for Tax Equity Transactions.”