Program Details
2026-11-13 14:30:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-11-13 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThis advanced hour audits a wind or solar option-and-lease clause by clause, the way lender counsel runs site-control diligence. Each defect is sorted into one of three tiers: holds closing, cured by endorsement or estoppel, or accepted as risk. Attendees leave able to predict which defects lender counsel will refuse to close over and which endorsement or estoppel will clear, and they leave with an annotated red-flag checklist that carries sample fix language.
Nura Azzam Yanaki
Lauren Shapiro Newberry 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTThis hour surveys the statutory decommissioning security frameworks that govern wind and solar projects, with attention to the variety of approaches states have adopted. Developer-side counsel sees how salvage formulas work under statutes, such as those in Texas and Oklahoma, where the pledged-debt term shrinks the salvage credit, and how counties diverge on whether to bar, haircut, or gross up salvage. The session also covers statutory and county update cycles and the conflicts that arise when landowners demand security provisions in the lease that go above and beyond what the applicable statute requires. Attendees leave with a counsel’s review checklist for navigating the interplay between statutory decommissioning obligations and landowner requests.
Nura Azzam YanakiLauren Shapiro NewberryLauren Shapiro is Counsel in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin office, where she practices real estate and title law in the energy industry. She advises utility-scale renewable energy projects on site control and title insurance, reviews title commitments, prepares closing instruction letters, and drafts the curative instruments that resolve title defects for developers. Her transactional work includes drafting purchase and sale agreements, letter agreements, and other real estate documents for energy projects. In 2024 she was part of the Norton Rose Fulbright team that acted as real estate counsel for Sol Systems in the construction loan and tax equity financing of Phase II of the 152 MW Eldorado Solar Project in Saline County, Illinois.
Nura Azzam Yanaki is a commercial real estate attorney in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Chicago office whose development practice covers renewable energy projects alongside retail, office, student housing, industrial, and educational properties. She drafts and negotiates the transactional documents that carry a project from acquisition through financing, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, loan agreements, development agreements, guaranties, and indemnities, and she runs due diligence on asset acquisitions and dispositions. The firm has named her on its real estate teams for Matrix Renewables’ acquisition of a 4.6 GW utility-scale solar development portfolio in the central United States, the preferred equity and debt financings of Matrix’s 210 MWac Stillhouse Solar project in Bell County, Texas, and Perennial Power Holdings’ joint venture with CEP Solar covering more than 1.5 GW of solar and battery storage projects in Virginia.
Lauren Shapiro is Counsel in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin office, where she practices real estate and title law in the energy industry. She advises utility-scale renewable energy projects on site control and title insurance, reviews title commitments, prepares closing instruction letters, and drafts the curative instruments that resolve title defects for developers. Her transactional work includes drafting purchase and sale agreements, letter agreements, and other real estate documents for energy projects. In 2024 she was part of the Norton Rose Fulbright team that acted as real estate counsel for Sol Systems in the construction loan and tax equity financing of Phase II of the 152 MW Eldorado Solar Project in Saline County, Illinois.
Nura Azzam Yanaki is a commercial real estate attorney in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Chicago office whose development practice covers renewable energy projects alongside retail, office, student housing, industrial, and educational properties. She drafts and negotiates the transactional documents that carry a project from acquisition through financing, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, loan agreements, development agreements, guaranties, and indemnities, and she runs due diligence on asset acquisitions and dispositions. The firm has named her on its real estate teams for Matrix Renewables’ acquisition of a 4.6 GW utility-scale solar development portfolio in the central United States, the preferred equity and debt financings of Matrix’s 210 MWac Stillhouse Solar project in Bell County, Texas, and Perennial Power Holdings’ joint venture with CEP Solar covering more than 1.5 GW of solar and battery storage projects in Virginia.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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