Anne C. Loomis | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Anne is a partner in the firm’s Tax Practice Group. She focuses her practice on federal, state, and local tax planning with an emphasis on the unique tax issues facing rate-regulated public utilities and other energy industry clients. Having previously served as tax counsel for a Fortune 500 corporation specializing in electric generation and distribution and gas transmission, Anne has extensive experience working on acquisitions, dispositions, and reorganizations. Anne regularly advises clients on structuring investments that produce federal and state tax benefits, with an emphasis on energy tax credits.

Anne has represented clients in IRS audits, IRS appeals conferences, controversies with state taxing authorities, and the U.S. Tax Court, and in the preparation of requests for private letter rulings from the IRS.

Adam C. Kobos | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Adam is a nationally recognized attorney whose practice encompasses a wide array of tax matters for energy industry clients, including utilities, tax equity investors, and project developers and sponsors. Adam regularly represents clients who develop, acquire, or invest in renewable energy projects (including wind, solar, geothermal, waste-to-energy, biomass, hydroelectric, and other renewable energy generation facilities), energy storage facilities, and electric vehicle charging and other alternative fuel refueling facilities. He helps clients qualify for federal, state, and local tax incentives and implement transaction structures that maximize the value of those incentives, including partnership flips, sale-leasebacks, and inverted leases.

Adam also represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, transactions involving partnerships, LLCs, and other pass-through entities, and tax controversy matters.

Roger S. Reigner | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Since 1985, Roger has practiced in the areas of federal, state, and local tax planning and controversies, with an emphasis on the unique tax and accounting issues facing rate-regulated public utilities. He has recently focused on matters such as the use of tax credits and incentives for the acquisition of utility scale renewable energy projects, sales and use tax advice and litigation, property tax advice and litigation, non-shareholder contributions to capital, VEBA taxation, and the taxation of nuclear decommissioning trust funds.

Roger has represented clients in numerous tax controversies with the IRS at the audit and appeals level, as well as in the preparation of private letter rulings and technical advice for IRS National Office consideration. Although most controversies have been resolved at the administrative level, when necessary, Roger has represented clients in tax litigation before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Court, the Court of Appeals as well as state and local courts, boards, and other tribunals.

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II. Credit Enhancements for Energy Community, Domestic Content, and Low-Income Community | 11:30am – 12:00pm

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III. Direct Pay and Transferability of Tax Credits | 12:10pm – 12:25pm

IV. Implications of the IRA for Transactions | 12:25pm – 12:40pm