Areas of Expertise

Who Can Benefit from Our Services

Any company that:

  • wants the benefit of a commercially-oriented and highly experienced lawyer without the financial burden of another full-time employee or big law firm partner hourly rates.

  • is engaged in the energy transition and wants to access U.S. Government funds in a more efficient and less painful way.

  • is developing a project in the energy transition that values insight into what all of the other stakeholders in the project are thinking.

  • is seeking seeks strategic guidance in navigating complex legal landscapes.

  • wants to increase its role in the energy transition.

  • A Fractional General Counsel

    ✓ Is an elegant solution that allows your Company to gain access to an experienced General Counsel who can – efficiently and affordably – fill leadership gaps, solve specific problems or help the company expand, experiment or improve in new areas.

    ✓ Can work for your Company on a long-term or project basis or serve in the interim while your Company is searching for a full-time professional to fill the role.

    ✓ Will develop a good understanding of your Company’s business, risk appetite, and policy approaches. This allows her to collaborate more effectively with your business and the leadership to provide strategic and legal advice and to assist you in policy making and business decisions that are not specifically legal in nature and, therefore, not suitable for outside counsel.

    ✓ May retain and work with outside transactional counsel on behalf of your Company, to ensure that outside counsel is working efficiently and providing the advice that the company needs.

    ✓ Can serve the same role as an experienced in-house lawyer but does so more flexibly and often more efficiently as an independent contractor rather than as a full-time employee.

    The Fractional General Counsel arrangement can be a win-win for all involved, offering right-sized fees, predictability of legal costs, and development of institutional knowledge in the business.

  • ✓ Any company that wants the benefit of a commercially-oriented and highly experienced lawyer, but cannot afford another full-time employee or expensive law firm partner hourly rates.

    ✓ A legal perspective can be valuable in almost every business matter, and at some point, every business encounters legal needs that require the assistance of an attorney. Because of budget constraints, some businesses try to do their own legal work, without the benefit of a lawyer, by using boilerplate contracts and entering into all types of agreements without any legal review. Others hire a junior lawyer who doesn’t yet have enough experience to spot issues or fully address the company’s legal needs or who does not understand how to properly mitigate issues. Unfortunately, those choices can result in costly outcomes down the road because of litigation, contracts that don’t accurately reflect the business deal, or contracts that do not mitigate risk appropriately.

    ✓ With fractional general counsel, your company can afford to have a seasoned in-house lawyer who is deeply familiar with the business and can handle most of your company’s legal needs without the high cost of a full-time employee.

  • If you answer “yes” to any of the following questions, you should hire a Fractional General Counsel:

    ✓ Do you spend time managing legal matters for your organization that you could be spending on growing your business?

    ✓ Do you regularly have a non-lawyer drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing your contracts?

    ✓ Do your corporate policies need to be updated to reflect your current risk appetite and/or best practice?

    ✓ Does someone in your company without a legal background supervise work performed by outside attorneys and the cost of their services?

    ✓ Do issues such as human resources matters interrupt your ability to focus on your business?

    ✓ Do you currently use outside attorneys for matters that do not require legal specialization, such as tax or intellectual property?

    ✓ Would you like to have a lawyer who:

    o Understands all aspects of your company’s business, including the objectives of the CEO, the management team, and the Board;

    o Appreciates the financial impact of each business decision, establishes ways to generate revenue through stringent contract negotiation, drafting, and management, and properly budgets and controls the company’s legal spend;

    o Creates innovative ways to make the legal department a profit center, while limiting legal risk and exposure;

    o Collaborates and develops relationships with all levels and departments of the organization to truly understand the inner workings of the company and objectives of the business; and

    o Charges substantially less than big law firm partners.

ETAG is a specialized advisory firm with more than twenty years of experience working on energy transition matters across the entire spectrum of stakeholders in the U.S. and around the world, including:

Project Developers and Operators

We work with project developers in developing strategies, scoping projects, sourcing equity and debt financing, and negotiating solid contractual relationships.

We have significant experience helping the private sector access U.S. government grants, equity, and debt and other development finance funds from global institutions.

Corporate Strategies, Objectives, Visions, Missions

ETAG serves as an executive peer to the C-suite to develop strategies, discuss ideas, and make vital decisions.

We develop long-term strategic plans and a roadmap to achieve each long-term objective.

We design and establish vision and mission statements.

Fractional General Counsel

Strategic Advisory Services

Who Needs Our Strategic Advisory Services?

  • Companies that are involved in the energy transition.

  • Companies that want to seek federal funding for their energy transition projects in the U.S.

  • Companies that want to see federal funding for their energy transition projects outside of the U.S.

  • Companies that want to monetize their PTC/ITC.

  • Companies that want to create a strategy to participate more fully in the energy transition.

  • Companies that want their stakeholders to know how they are contributing to the energy transition.

Debt and Equity Investors

We work with corporate and project debt providers and financial and strategic equity investors across the equity spectrum, from venture capital to development capital to private equity, to assist them in their legal due diligence and risk underwriting and to draft and negotiate legal documentation.

Corporate Governance

ETAG provides organizational structures that promote good governance.

We design and draft corporate policies.

We implement and facilitate training on corporate policies.

Private Sector and
Public Sector Investors

We help private sector companies understand and efficiently work with government financing programs.

We help government financing programs understand how they can work with private sector companies more efficiently and productively.

Enterprise Risk Programs

ETAG provides reliable and impartial advice concerning risk management.

We solve problems and identify strengths, overcome weaknesses, and develop strategies to resolve issues.

We support strategic change management programs.