Cleantech -- Carbon Markets and Trading

Morrison & Foerster has led the way in the Cleantech sector for decades, representing clients in related industries for more than 30 years. While carbon markets and trading emerge in the United States and start to scale in Europe, investors and companies are seeking to understand what carbon assets they already own, and which carbon liabilities they should mitigate. Facing both voluntary and regulated approaches globally, the firm represents investors, emerging companies, and established companies who are looking to optimize their carbon value.

Morrison & Foerster can provide advice on carbon markets and trading industry-specific challenges, including:

• Help ensure the proper legal ownership of your carbon reduction value, whether emissions allowances, project finance, or new technologies.
• Advise your company in identifying market opportunities that optimize the economic value of your carbon reduction value by trading on voluntary or regulated markets, including Clean Development Mechanism credits.
• Counsel on new technologies that affect carbon emissions, and how to protect your intellectual property associated with innovative processes, new products, or other pioneering approaches.
• Provide your firm with transactional representation in the purchase and sale of emission units that meet the existing and emerging regulatory requirements where you operate.
• Assist in tracking your carbon emissions to successfully capture untapped asset value or revenue growth.

Morrison & Foerster can also provide a wide range of legal services, such as:

• Help emerging and privately owned companies succeed at every stage of development – from initial business formation, to raising venture capital financing and achieving a successful exit through a sale, public offering, or merger.
• Advise publicly listed companies on a full range of securities laws and related matters, including the disclosure and regulatory obligations of the SEC, national exchanges and associations, Sarbanes-Oxley and other corporate governance matters.  We can also counsel your board of directors and committees on corporate governance and other issues.
• Advise on how to capture the full value of your intellectual property, trade secrets, trademarks and other innovations.  We also counsel you on an overall intellectual property portfolio management and strategy.
• Help you scale and grow through assistance on strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other capital-raising activities such as venture capital and private equity.
• Defend your firm’s interests through our best-in-class litigation, arbitration, and mediation services, and protect the full value and competitive advantage of your assets, revenue, and income – including your intellectual property (e.g., patents, trademarks, trade secrets), securities, capital structure (e.g., stock options, equities, debt), environmental position (e.g., carbon credits, land use) and more.