Michael P. Joyce
First Avenue Plaza
44 Cook Street
Suite 320
Denver, CO 80206
Two California Plaza
350 South Grand Avenue
Suite 2100
Los Angeles, California 90071
Michael P. Joyce’s practice focuses on energy and infrastructure finance.
Michael has represented clients in numerous cutting-edge transactions in the energy and infrastructure field, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy sectors such as solar, wind, and storage. He also has considerable experience with geothermal, biomass, coal, gas-fired, and nuclear projects, as well as with joint ventures and the disposition and acquisition of energy and infrastructure assets.
Mike is ranked by Chambers Global and Chambers USA in Projects: Renewables and Alternative Energy. Prior to joining the firm, Michael was a partner in the Los Angeles office of an AmLaw 50 Firm.
Mike is Co-Practice Group Leader of V&E’s Energy Transactions and Projects practice group.
Experience Highlights
Blackstone Credit and ClearGen, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company, in the formation of a strategic partnership between ClearGen and GreenStruxure, a Schneider Electric and Huck Capital joint venture, to develop, own and operate up to $500 million of renewable energy microgrid systems for C&I customers
Numerous tax equity investors in their initial investments in utility scale wind, solar, and storage projects including—with respect to solar and storage—commercial, industrial, and residential assets, utilizing partnership flip transactions, sale leaseback, and inverted lease structures
MN8 Energy in connection with the acquisition from Recurrent Energy and the development, debt and term financing of a 300MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plus 140.25MW/561MWh storage project in California. The project will sell power pursuant to 5 separate power purchase agreements, 4 of which include energy storage
A major financial institution as tax equity investor in the financing of a 520MW combined photovoltaic (PV) solar and battery storage facility in ERCOT, a portion of the output of which is to be sold under a hedge with the balance of the energy and the storage component being utilized on a merchant basis
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power in the acquisition, joint development, and tax equity financing of a several hundred megawatts of shovel-ready C&L solar and solar-plus-storage projects across the United States
Numerous tax equity investors in tax equity financing of various wind repowering projects throughout the United States
Cypress Creek in a mezzanine debt facility, a preferred equity issuance, and recapitalization intended to optimize its capital structure as part of its long-term growth strategy
Tax equity investors and sponsors in the financing of numerous solar and wind projects selling power to Community Choice Aggregators
Multiple tax equity investors in the sale and leveraged lease-back of wind, solar and geothermal projects
A sponsor in the cash equity financing of several portfolios of residential and commercial solar projects with different financing parties
A leading solar developer in connection with a sale of operating assets and subsequent sale of the company
Credentials
- Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D., 2002
- Claremont McKenna College, B.A.,1998
- Chambers Global, Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy (USA), 2016–2020, 2023 and 2024
- Chambers USA, Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy (Nationwide), 2015–2024
- Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Project Finance, 2012 and 2022-2024; Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2022 and 2023; “Leading Lawyer” in Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2022-2024
- Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023 and 2024
- Law360, “Rising Star” in Project Finance, 2016
- Daily Journal, “Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers in California,” 2016
- IFLR1000 U.S., “Rising Star” in project finance, 2014
- Frequent speaker on substance abuse and mental health issues in the legal profession
- Admitted only in California
- Colorado Application Pending
- Event RecapNovember 7, 2024
- Press ReleaseOctober 31, 2024
- Deals & CasesOctober 23, 2024
- Deals & CasesOctober 1, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsJune 12, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsJune 6, 2024
- Event RecapMay 8, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsFebruary 15, 2024
- Event RecapJanuary 31, 2024
- Deals & CasesJanuary 10, 2024
- Deals & CasesNovember 29, 2023
- Deals & CasesOctober 3, 2023
- InsightSeptember 18, 2023
Published by Renewable Energy SmartPod
- Rankings & AwardsJune 12, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsJune 1, 2023
- Deals & CasesMay 2, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 17, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsFebruary 16, 2023
- December 15, 2022
Published on Nasdaq.com December 9, 2022
- Deals & CasesNovember 21, 2022
- Deals & CasesSeptember 29, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsJune 16, 2022
- InsightJune 14, 2022
- Press ReleaseJune 14, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsJune 1, 2022
- Event RecapApril 19, 2022
- Deals & CasesMarch 29, 2022
- Event RecapOctober 13, 2021
- Deals & CasesMay 25, 2021
- Press ReleaseFebruary 3, 2021