Session: Complimentary legislation? Cap and trade, renewable tariffs, and renewable energy targets

Based in Washington, D.C. Rick heads up EEA's North American office. Rick is an attorney by training with extensive transaction expertise in the energy and environmental fields. At EEA, he oversees US and Latin American deals on behalf of Trading Emissions PLC, an AIM listed carbon and clean energy investment fund. Rick was also a founder and part of the executive management of Leaf Clean Energy Company, a US focused clean energy private equity vehicle. 

Prior to joining EEA Rick was a senior attorney with the Washington, DC based law firm of Van Ness Feldman where his practice focused climate change policy and transactions. Rick has also lived and worked in Brazil for three years while working with a Felsberg & Associados where his practice focused on cross-border transactions, foreign investment and climate change matters. During that time he advised some of the first CDM projects and was a principal protagonist for an early effort to develop a Brazil specific carbon fund. Rick is fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish.

Rick has an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Lafayette College and a J.D. from Seton Hall University Law School.