Shearman & Sterling advised the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in connection with the issuance of a $197 million loan guarantee to SoloPower, Inc. in support of the construction and operation of state-of-the-art thin-film solar module manufacturing facilities at two sites in Portland, Oregon and an existing site in San Jose, California.

The Shearman & Sterling team included partners Patricia G. Hammes (New York-Project Development & Finance), Robert N. Freedman (New York-Project Development & Finance), Lisa Brill (New York-Real Estate), Scott W. Doyle (Washington, DC-Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation), and Samuel A. Waxman (New York-Intellectual Property Transactions); counsel Jeffrey L. Salinger (New York-Real Estate/Environmental); and associates Ranbir S. Chowdhary (New York-Project Development & Finance), Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham (New York-Project Development & Finance), David Dubrovsky (New York-Project Development & Finance), Timothy Franklin (New York-Intellectual Property Transactions), Christopher Greer (New York-Real Estate/Environmental), Erin O'Callaghan (New York-Real Estate) and Matthew Shoenthal (New York-Real Estate).