gold Sponsor
| Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
www.ballardspahr.com
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP is a business law firm that offers legal advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private investment funds, securities, securitization, transactional finance, and valuation. Its areas of practice also include bankruptcy and capital recovery, labor and employment, land use, product liability and mass tort, taxation, eminent domain, employee benefits, energy and project finance, environmental law, estate planning and administration, family wealth management, franchise and distribution, intellectual property, and investment management. The firm also provides legal advisory services to construction, consumer financial services, technology and emerging companies, real estate, resorts and hotels, housing, healthcare, and telecommunications industries. Ballard Spahr was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional offices in Baltimore, Maryland; Denver, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; Voorhees, New Jersey; Washington, District Of Columbia; and Wilmington, Delaware.
| silver Sponsor | Troutman Sanders
www.troutmansanders.com
Troutman Sanders LLP is an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers and 15 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1897, the firm’s heritage of extensive experience, exceptional responsiveness and an unwavering commitment to service has garnered strong, long-standing relationships with clients across the globe. These clients range from multinational corporations to individual entrepreneurs, federal and state agencies to foreign governments, and non-profit organizations to businesses representing virtually every sector and industry.
| Silver Sponsor | Winston & Strawn LLP
www.winston.com
Winston & Strawn LLP, founded in 1853, is one of the nation's oldest and largest law firms. With nearly 1,000 attorneys in offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Newark, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Moscow, Russian Federation, San Francisco, Geneva, Switzerland, Paris, France, and London, England, the firm provides a full range of legal services to clients throughout the United States and abroad, including Fortune 500 companies, major commercial and financial institutions, governments and governmental entities, as well as small and midsize companies, individuals and entrepreneurs from virtually every industry. | Silver Sponsor | GE Energy Financial Services
www.geenergyfinancialservices.com
GE Energy Financial Services' (EFS) experts invest globally with a long-term view, backed by the best of GE's technical know-how and financial strength, across the capital spectrum in one of the world's most capital intensive industries, energy, to help their customers and GE grow. | silver Sponsor | Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP
www.sonnenschein.com
With 800 lawyers and other professionals in 14 offices in the U.S. and Europe, and a global reach throughout the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, Sonnenschein serves the legal and public interest needs of many of the world's best-known and most admired businesses, nonprofits and individuals. Founded in 1906, Sonnenschein is a leader in innovative legal services, serving our clients through integrated, inter-office cooperation and teamwork among practice groups to provide efficient, effective and timely legal services and business counseling.
| Bronze Sponsor | Evolution Markets
www.evomarkets.com
Evolution Markets, LLC structures transactions and provides brokerage, consulting, and risk management advisory services for environmental credit markets; energy markets such as over the counter coal and natural gas; and weather derivatives market. The company specializes in carbon finance and greenhouse gas brokerage. In addition, the company through a joint venture with Starsupply Petroleum has created Evolution Carbon International to provide brokerage services to the international coal trading market. Evolution Markets, LLC was founded in 2000 and is based in White Plains, New York. | Nasdaq Reception Sponsor | Acciona Energy
http://www.acciona.com | Nasdaq Reception Sponsor | SunPower
http://us.sunpowercorp.com
| Nasdaq Reception Sponsor | SolFocus
http://www.solfocus.com
SolFocus is a provider of large scale, ground-mounted concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems for utilities, power plant developers and municipalities. SolFocus is the leading developer and manufacturer of solar energy systems based on Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) technology. The company’s innovative design combines high-efficiency solar cells (approaching 40%) and advanced, patented reflective optics, to provide systems which are positioned to deliver the lowest levelized cost of energy of any solar solution available. | Nasdaq Reception Sponsor | Deutsche Asset Management
| Reception Sponsor | Baker & McKenzie
www.bakernet.com
Baker & McKenzie represents developers, lenders and investors in all aspects of the renewable energy industry including biofuels, windpower, solar, carbon and climate change, geothermal, landfill gas and cleantech transactions. Our extensive experience means that every project receives the benefit of lawyers who know the industry, the players and how to get deals done. Please visit www.bakernet.com/energy | Reception Sponsor | Milbank
www.milbank.com
Milbank is a leading global law firm in renewable energy project development, finance and M&A with over 100 deals closed. Among numerous accolades, Milbank was recently ranked by Euromoney/Dealogic the Number 1 Global Renewables Legal Adviser for 2007 and the Number 1 North America Renewables Legal Adviser for 2007. | Strategic Communications Sponsor | Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, Inc.
| Badge Sponsor | Ewing Bemiss & Co.
http://www.ewingbemiss.com
Ewing Bemiss & Co. is an independent investment banking firm that has been committed to the alternative energy sector for over a decade completing more than $2 billion in merger and acquisition and financing transactions in the sector. Ewing Bemiss brings the highest level of professionalism and insight to each client. | Oval Bar Sponsor
| IHS
www.ihs.com
IHS is a leading global source of critical information and insight, dedicated to providing the most complete and trusted data and expertise. IHS product and service solutions span four areas of information that encompass the most important concerns facing global business today: Energy, Product Lifecycle, Security and Environment. By focusing on customers first, IHS enables innovative and successful decision-making for customers ranging from governments and multinational companies to smaller companies and technical professionals in more than 180 countries. IHS has been in business since 1959 and employs approximately 3,800 people in 20 countries.
| Lobster Bar Sponsor
| NTR
http://www.ntr.ie
The macro factors of climate change, resource sustainability and security of energy supply create structural growth opportunities for the NTR Group. NTR’s strategy is to be a Leading International Developer and Operator in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Waste Management.
Founded in 1978 to develop and operate toll roads, NTR has grown and diversified throughout the last 30 years by building on a strong entrepreneurial and project development heritage. Over the past decade, the Group has evolved from infrastructural developments in Ireland to become one of the foremost international pioneers in renewable energy and sustainable waste management. NTR has taken strategic positions in wind energy, solar energy and corn-based ethanol through investment in Wind Capital Group, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar and Green Plains Renewable Energy. NTR’s waste management business, Greenstar, runs facilities across North America, UK and Ireland. | Badge Sponsor | Equinox Carbon Equities, LLC
http://www.equinoxcarbonequities.com | General Sponsor
| SgurrEnergy
www.sgurrenergy.com
SgurrEnergy is a leading independent multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy specializing in renewable energy. We have the capability to deliver at every phase of a project, from the early stages of site selection, feasibility and design right through to project management of the construction phase and operation and maintenance. Our consultants have extensive renewable energy experience worldwide. To date we have assessed over 30,000MW of renewable energy development internationally and this figure is growing rapidly every month. Our global client list includes utilities, financiers, developers and many other public and private sector organizations. | General Sponsor
| Caja Madrid
http://www.cajamadrid.es
Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid operates as a savings bank in Spain. It primarily offers products and services in banking, insurance, and asset management and brokerage sectors. The company provides an array of products and services, including guarantees, credit lines, loans, leasing products, bill discounting, mutual funds, factoring, customized financing, financial advice, and foreign trade operations. Its deposit products include time deposits, saving deposits, demand deposits, and others. The company’s loan portfolio comprises home mortgage loans, business and consumer loans, and customer loans. In addition, the company holds a portfolio of investments in firms operating in various sectors, including utilities, technology, real estate, services, and infrastructure. As of December 31, 2004, the company operated 1920 branches in Spain. The company was founded in 1702 and is based in Madrid, Spain. | Exhibitor | Brainloop | Exhibitor | PA Consulting Group
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