Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP continues to deepen its bench strength in the energy and infrastructure sector with the addition of renewable energy and tax equity partner, Anne Levin-Nussbaum. She joins a series of recent lateral partners around the country including James Grice, Bruce (Eddie) Lowry, David Thompson, Michael McKinley, and of counsel Michael Borovik to augment their renewable energy team. Levin-Nussbaum arrives from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, P.C.
“Anne’s deep tax credit experience bolsters the firm’s energy and infrastructure team through her years of work in renewable energy transactions and project financings,” said Grice, co-chair of the Energy and Infrastructure Team and chair of the Renewable Energy and Electric Power Practice. “Our clients will significantly benefit from her industry experience and knowledge in this specialized area.”
Levin-Nussbaum, a federal income tax lawyer for over 25 years, currently focuses her practice on transactions involving the development, financing, sales and acquisitions of renewable energy projects and other matters related to energy tax credits, depreciation and other tax incentives for clean energy transition and alternative energy production. She has extensive experience representing developers, lenders, and investors in tax equity transactions utilizing flip partnership, sale leaseback and inverted lease structures to finance renewable energy projects such as community and utility scale solar, wind, geothermal, combined heat and power and municipal trash. Her practice also includes representing buyers and sellers in M&A transactions, providing tax opinions and structuring advice to sponsors and tax equity, tax controversy work, advising tax credit insurers and policyholders and reviewing PPAs, EPCs, safe harbor supply contracts, leases, tax appraisals, financial models and more.
Levin-Nussbaum is a valuable resource on the broad range of clean energy tax credits and deductions available through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) and subsequent guidance issued by Treasury and the IRS. She frequently writes and speaks on the IRA and is advising clients regarding new opportunities related to the domestic content adder, energy communities, microgrids, energy-efficient building property, direct pay and transferability.
Bill Sullivan, chair of the Federal Tax Practice, said, “Anne adds depth to our Federal Tax team and increases our ability to serve the needs of an ever-growing group of clean energy stakeholders. We are excited to welcome her to our New York office.”
