Three Norton Rose Fulbright companions have been honored as 2024 Notable Leaders in Sustainability by Crain’s New York Business. Christine Brozynski, Benjamin Koenigsberg and Christy Rivera (New York) have been acknowledged on this particular editorial report that honors the highest leaders in New York who’ve had a measurable environmental influence inside their industries.
Brozynski was acknowledged for her apply which focuses on the financing and improvement of vitality tasks, together with main the financing for one of many largest photo voltaic tasks in the USA, the 600 MWac Hornet Photo voltaic undertaking in Swisher County, Texas, developed by Vesper Vitality. This deal was one of many first to make the most of a tax credit score sale construction, paving the way in which for future offers of this sort.
As Co-Head of the Norton Rose Fulbright’s US Initiatives workforce, Koenigsberg has led a few of the sustainability authorized market’s main transactional work together with a number of utility scale photo voltaic and wind tasks and a multibillion greenback transmission undertaking which is able to assist New York meet its local weather targets.
Rivera was honored for her work on the US$11bn financing of the most important clear vitality infrastructure undertaking in US historical past, consisting of the three,515 MW SunZia Wind undertaking and a associated 550-mile HVDC transmission line between New Mexico and Arizona. She additionally represents builders and lenders within the financing and improvement of photo voltaic, storage and RNG tasks.
To qualify for this award, nominees should serve in a senior management function within the New York metro space and have made important contributions to sustainability locally. Alternatives have been made via a nomination and editorial overview course of.
Profiles of the honorees have been included on-line at CrainsNewYork.com and within the print situation of the publication on April 15.
