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Alan Claus Anderson

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Alan Claus Anderson is the vice chair of the firm's national Energy practice group.  He has extensive experience representing and serving as lead deal counsel and outside general counsel to public and private companies in the energy industry.  He advises domestic and international oil and gas, wind and solar companies in all phases of the development process.  Mr. Anderson provides counsel to companies throughout the energy spectrum including the largest generator of wind and solar production in North America; one of the largest European-based solar companies on its entry into the United States and successful projects throughout North America; and a leading German-based company focused on wind, solar and bioenergy. He also represents a leading North American electric power generation development and asset management company with 6,000 MWs under management and a renewable energy division with approximately 5,000 MWs of additional wind power projects across the United States.

Mr. Anderson also regularly represents oil and gas companies and serves as their outside general counsel. He advises them in the full range of activities including reviewing, structuring and negotiating acquisitions and development projects both domestically and internationally, and was selected for membership in the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.  Mr. Anderson also represents numerous clients in the negotiation and execution of oil and gas exploration, joint operating and participation agreements. As former in-house counsel at a publicly traded oil and gas company, he has led numerous successful negotiated oil and gas joint development projects.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
    • Environment, Energy & Resources Section
  • American Wind Energy Association
  • Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
  • Invest Midwest Venture Capital Forum's Cleantech/Alternative Energy Track
    • Selection Committee, 2007-present
  • Kansas Bar Association
    • Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section
  • Kansas City Area Development Council
    • Advanced Energy Task Force
  • Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association
  • The Missouri Bar
  • Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
  • Solar Electric Power Association
  • Washington State Bar Association

Experience

 
Renewable Energy

  • Represented a tax equity investor in a $145 million acquisition and financing of a 60-megawatt Nebraska wind project
  • Represented lenders in a $240 million financing of a 150-megawatt Missouri wind project
  • Represented wind energy developer in the acquisition of a 100-megawatt wind project and developer's negotiation of power purchase agreement with related utility
  • Advised solar developer in third-party power purchase agreement project with non-profit power purchaser
  • Advised solar developer on a 3-megawatt photovoltaic project as shortlisted respondent on tax advantaged proposal for Colorado project
  • Advised largest mall owner REIT on third-party power purchase agreement proposals for California projects
  • Representation of lenders in the financing of a 23 million gallon per year integrated biomass to cellulosic ethanol facility in Kansas, together with a 20 MW cogeneration plant that will provide steam and electricity to the ethanol facility
  • Representation of lenders in the project financing of a 201 MW wind project in Kansas
  • Representation of solar developer in the development of multiple feed-in-tariff photovoltaic projects in Ontario, Canada
  • Representation of wind developer in the sale of a 131 MW fully developed wind project with a power purchase agreement in Kansas
  • Representation of wind developer in the development and financing of a 165 MW wind project in Kansas

Oil & Gas
  • Representing oil and gas exploration and production company in production payment financing
  • Represented oil and gas company in acquisition and joint development of Middle East project
  • Negotiated a 35-year oil and gas production sharing agreement with the Republic of Chile for the exploration and production of natural gas
  • Represented oil and gas company involving negotiation and execution of heavy oil drilling services project in Madagascar
  • Represented international oil and gas company on joint development agreement of Botswana oil and gas licenses
  • Represented oil and gas drilling company in its worldwide drilling and E&P operations including Canada, Africa, Australia, Asia and Central and South America
  • Represented oil and gas E&P company in a Rule 506 broker-dealer private placement of up to $10 million in limited partnership interests
  • Represented oil and gas non-operated working interest company in Rule 506 private placement of limited partnership interests related to Texas drilling program
  • Represented oil and gas fund in Rule 506 private placement of tax sensitive limited partnership interests
  • Represented oil and gas company in Rule 506 private placement of limited partnership interests in drilling program approved for individual retirement accounts help by trust companies
  • Representation of independent oil and gas company in a broker-dealer private offering of convertible notes to acquire and fund oil exploration and production activities in Saskatchewan, Canada

Publications & Presentations

April 2012
North American Windpower, Volume 9, Number 3
Although federal policy remains in flux, the U. S. wind energy market will likely prove too big for international investors to ignore.
Co-Authors Alan Claus Anderson and J. Britton Gibson
October 4, 2011
Kansas Energy Conference
Presentation given in Wichita, Kansas by Polsinelli Shughart Energy Vice Chair Alan Claus Anderson.
May 12, 2011
Energy Vice Chair Alan Claus Anderson spoke at the 3rd German Energy Conference 2011 in Berlin on "Successful Market Entry in the USA - Best Practices."
April 28-29, 2011
Novogradac & Company, Financing Renewable Energy Conference
Presentation given in San Francisco, California
April 24, 2011
Energy Vice Chair Alan Claus Anderson and Shareholder Britton Gibson spoke at the Novogradac "Financing Renewable Energy Conference" in San Francisco.
April 2011
Presentation at University of Missouri-Columbia by Polsinelli Shughart Energy Vice Chair Alan Claus Anderson
March 30, 2011
Advancing Renewables in the Midwest
Presentation given in Columbia, Missouri, on renewable energy company and facility location and attraction
October 2010
Second Annual Energy Symposium: Expanding Business Opportunities in Energy
Moderator; Event held in Kansas City, Missouri
February 2010
North American Wind Power, Zackin Publications, Inc.
Co-Authors Alan Claus Anderson and J. Britton Gibson
October 2009
University of Missouri-Kansas City Continuing Legal Education
Moderator
October 2009
Kansas Wind and Renewable Energy Conference
Speaker
2001
Missouri Methods of Practice, Fourth Edition
Co-Author