CHAPTER 2 COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT - DOING THE DEAL: THE MOAPA SOLAR DEVELOPMENT

• Jurisdiction: United States

Energy & Mineral Development in Indian Country
(Nov 2014)
CHAPTER 2
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT - DOING THE DEAL: THE MOAPA SOLAR DEVELOPMENT
Lynn H. Slade
(Moderator) Partner
Modrall Sperling
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Glenn M. Feldman
Member
Dickinson Wright PLLC
Phoenix, Arizona
Stan Webb
Regional Realty Officer
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Phoenix, Arizona
Jennifer Carleton
Shareholder
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Las Vegas, Nevada

[Page 2-1]

LYNN H. SLADE is a partner in the Albuquerque office of Modrall Sperling. For over 30 years, he has focused his practice on energy development and federal Indian law. In his Indian law practice, Lynn represents energy developers, lenders, manufacturers, and asset managers in structuring transactions and resolving disputes arising from economic development in Indian country. His energy practice involves, in the current parlance, "all of the above," including conventional (oil & gas and coal) and renewable (wind, solar, and hydro) energy resources. He has been involved with all of these resources in Indian country settings. Lynn is co-chair of Modrall Sperling's Native American Law Practice Group, a former trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and an advisor to ALI's proposed Restatement of the Law of the American Indian (3d). He has served as adjunct faculty (federal public lands) at the University of New Mexico School of Law. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he served as editor of the New Mexico Law Review.

GLENN M. FELDMAN is a member of the law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC of Phoenix, Arizona. Glenn is a 1973 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. Glenn's practice is devoted exclusively to Federal Indian Law, with heavy emphasis on Indian gaming and reservation economic development activities. He is counsel to a number of Indian tribes, tribal...