GridNEXT 2018 Speaker
Eleanor "Cacki" Chote Jewart
Partner
Husch Blackwell
Cacki is a skilled and trusted advocate, partnering with clients to achieve their goals. She creatively solves problems as they arise, anticipates issues and prepares well to avoid last-minute surprises.
A strong communicator, Cacki leads a multidisciplinary team and has years of experience managing projects large and small.
Cacki focuses on the renewable energy industry and has practiced real estate law for almost 20 years. In the renewable energy context, she leads teams in project development and project investment. Cacki has closed more than 2,500 MW worth of projects for sponsor/developers and more than 1,500 MW worth of projects for tax equity investors and lenders.
She and her team handle early, mid-stage and late-stage projects, including construction and post-construction asset management, with a particular focus on real estate, environmental, regulatory, and state and local tax matters. She advises on all types of financing documents for developers and investors and negotiates leases, easements, surface use agreements, shared facilities agreements, build-out agreements, management agreements, construction contracts, purchase and sale contracts, and loan documents.
Cacki is the leader of the Renewable Energy team and serves on the firm’s Executive Board.