{"id":195205,"date":"2010-01-18T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2010-01-18T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:46:23","slug":"vinson-elkins-opens-palo-alto-office-to-go-after-renewable-energy-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195205","title":{"rendered":"Vinson &amp; Elkins Opens Palo Alto Office to Go After Renewable Energy Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><\/p>\n<p>International law firm Vinson &amp; Elkins sees untapped billable hours in renewable energy and is therefore opening <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velaw.com\/resources\/pub_detail.aspx?id=16504&amp;Source=PaloAlto&amp;Link=2\" ><\/a>a new office in Palo Alto, Calif., to capture\u00a0 a slice of this growing market.<span id=\"more-5619\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The office is opening with three partners and will be managed by Boyd Carano who has moved to Northern California from the firm&#8217;s Houston office. Kyle Fox and Margaret Sampson of Austin have also joined Carano in Palo Alto. Fox has extensive experience advising early-stage companies and Sampson is a partner with Vinson &amp; Elkins&#8217;s intellectual property practice.<\/p>\n<p>Carano tells us that the firm could add a partner and three or four associates by the end\u00a0 of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Law firms have been staffing up with environmental\/greentech lawyers, (see <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/08\/clean-energy-lawyer-joins-mintz-levin\/\" >here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/08\/wilson-sonsini-goodrich-rosati-grows-clean-energy-practice\/\" >here<\/a>), although a lot of the hiring has been in Washington, which these days is the epicenter of cleantech funding, with the Department of Energy overseeing nearly $40 billion in dedicated funds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/9C22A0Socl0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International law firm Vinson &amp; Elkins sees untapped billable hours in renewable energy and is therefore opening a new office in Palo Alto, Calif., to capture\u00a0 a slice of this growing market. The office is opening with three partners and will be managed by Boyd Carano who has moved to Northern California from the firm&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}