Richard Kanoff

Partner

O 617-456-8132 F 617-456-8100 rkanoff@princelobel.com

Practice Areas

Industries

Renewable Energy

Richard Kanoff is chair of Prince Lobel’s Renewable Energy Industry group. He has devoted his career to helping private and public clients understand and navigate the often complex world of energy, climate change, innovation and technology. Richard helps clients manage regulatory risk, develop projects, secure financing and make decisions. Richard often appears in regulatory forums and federal courts involving energy infrastructure projects throughout New England.

Richard works with a diverse group of emerging and established private and public companies, start-ups, non-profits, individuals, and municipalities and focuses on renewable energy and clean technology law, regulatory policy and litigation including permitting, siting, finance, regulatory compliance, project development and transactional matters.

Richard’s clients include clean coal and other fossil fuel‐related generation, and providers of bio-fuels, biomass, energy and demand management, smart grid, solar, wind, storage, fuel cells and other distributed generation technologies. He also represents independent power producers (IPPs), including an association of IPPs in New England. Richard has particular experience managing multifaceted legal issues associated with developing, siting, permitting, financing and operating energy facilities, and navigating electrical transmission, interconnection and ISO policies, interstate gas pipelines, state and federal incentives, and with renewable energy/climate change regulations.

As part of his practice, he presents clients in complex litigation in regulatory agencies and federal courts, including United States Court of Appeals (1st Circuit), at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and before state energy regulatory commissions in New England.

Renewable Energy/Storage/Finance

Counsel to a national solar company in the development, diligence, and financing of approximately 250 MWs of commercial scale solar/storage projects in New England, New York, Maryland, and Georgia.
Counsel to a national solar developer with respect to the acquisition and diligence of over 50 MWs of commercial scale solar/storage in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Counsel to a national solar developer relating to the acquisition of commercial scale solar projects, including a brownfield development, in Massachusetts.
Counsel to a national solar developer with respect to multiple projects, including a large roof top project, in Rhode Island.
Counsel to a landowner/developer in the proposed development of a roof top project in Rhode Island and in a large-scale 16 MW commercial project in Maine.
Counsel to prominent bank in debt financing the development and operation of a roof top solar facilities on a well-known big box retailer in MA; responsible for due diligence, risk assessments, regulatory advice, and transaction documentation.
Counsel to a national hedge fund in its acquisition of numerous projects in Massachusetts.
Counsel to an international bank it is financing of solar projects in Massachusetts.
Counsel to a well-known retail grocery chain in its net metering and energy related transactions in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Counsel in transactions regarding the applicability of investment/production tax credits for solar, wind and biomass projects.
Counsel to an energy storage company in the development, permitting, leasing, and financing of its energy storage (flywheel) technology.
Counsel to a solar developer in North Carolina in connection with the acquisition and financing of $20 million in PV facilities in North Carolina in a complex multi-party transaction involving equity and debt financing, deal structuring, tax implications, and drafting and review of purchase and sale, credit, investment, and operating agreements.
Counsel to numerous landowners in transactions relating to the option/leasing of land for the development commercial scale solar projects.
Counsel to a wind developer in the siting of a wind facility in New Hampshire.

Litigation/Regulatory Matters

Counsel to an independent power association in complex regulatory proceedings in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with respect to issues relating to competitive markets and policies.
Counsel to a stakeholder group in proceedings at the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board.
Counsel to numerous cities and towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire relating to siting, permitting and approval of utility infrastructure.
Counsel to a stakeholder group in regulatory proceedings in opposition to approval of a gas fired peaking plant.

Education

J.D., cum laude, George Washington University
B.A., Lafayette College

Bar Admissions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Memberships & Affiliations

Energy Bar Association
Boston Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
American Bar Association