[Webinar] Eco-friendly Finance Is Infrastructure: The $100 Billion Prospect for Green Banking companies – June 2nd, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT | Womble Bond Dickinson

June 2nd, 2021

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

With bold weather, electrical power, and sustainability commitments emerging at the countrywide and community concentrations in the United States, considerable financial commitment will be essential to satisfy this need. Eco-friendly financial institutions are poised to meet up with this instant by leveraging community bucks to unlock massive amounts of private sector cash in line with these commitments, providing work in addition to environmental and financial gains. To accelerate the effect currently remaining made by point out, city, and community green banking companies, the federal government is taking into consideration a national eco-friendly bank. Green banking professionals will be in conversation to explore successes, issues, and opportunities to build a potential the place all banking is green banking.

Speakers

Damon Burns

Damon Burns
President and CEO
Finance New Orleans

Damon Burns is a New Orleans indigenous and general public finance qualified with a lot more than 10 years of encounter in entrepreneurship, investment banking, corporate banking and economic improvement. He is presently the President & CEO of Finance New Orleans. The Finance Authority is a housing and financial growth finance company that has financed around $600 million of cost-effective housing and economic progress initiatives in New Orleans.

Eli Hopson

Eli Hopson
CEO
DC Inexperienced Lender

Eli Hopson is CEO of DC Environmentally friendly Financial institution, where he prospects the strategic and operational implementation of DC Environmentally friendly Bank’s systems and fosters relationships with important companions and stakeholders. His considerate and decisive strategy has so much effectively led DC Green Bank by means of the obstacle of launching operations throughout the COVID-19 global pandemic. Less than his steady management, DC Green Lender has created its to start with economic choices, recognized strategic interactions, and explored options to know the District’s bold Clean Power aims and DC Environmentally friendly Bank’s mission of getting the built-in hub of data and investment to speed up DC’s transition to a sustainable and flourishing foreseeable future.

Alex Kragie

Alex Kragie
Director
American Eco-friendly Bank Consortium

Alex Kragie is the Director of the American Green Financial institution Consortium. Formerly, Alex was the Performing Executive Director of the Montgomery County Inexperienced Financial institution, the nation’s 1st county-stage Eco-friendly Bank. He has also led perform on the Nevada Clean Energy Fund and other Coalition for Inexperienced Capital initiatives.

Kerry O'Neill

Kerry O’Neill
CEO
Inclusive Prosperity Money

As CEO, Kerry provides her working experience with the varieties of institutional worries – and options – related with clean up power investing for our communities that will need it most and brings together it with a passion for bringing the rewards of cleanse power to underinvested neighborhoods and markets. Kerry has been past lucky to function with the superb Connecticut Inexperienced Lender crew to deploy award profitable products and solutions for very low-to-moderate cash flow communities – and is thrilled to be performing with the team that has spun out into Inclusive Prosperity Cash to deliver these products and solutions to a broader current market. Kerry’s favored estimate is “Be the modify you desire to see in the world” and simply cannot consider she has the very good fortune to come to perform just about every day and do just that, exhibiting her children it definitely is feasible.

Mike Dow

Mike Dow
Husband or wife
Womble Bond Dickinson

Mike concentrates his exercise on public and job finance. He represents lenders, buyers, underwriters, issuers, borrowers, and other participants in taxable and tax-exempt transactions for infrastructure projects, like renewable energy, electricity effectiveness, producing, transportation, and health and fitness and larger education amenities, among the many others. His knowledge features public choices and non-public placements of transactions that make the most of condition and nearby incentives, federal tax credits and other enhancements.

Mark Henriques

Mark Henriques
Partner
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Mark focuses on sophisticated business scenarios, like the defense of class steps.He has served a guide counsel on four $5M+ class steps filed in North Carolina federal courts because 2018.He has correctly litigated instances involving building, real estate, fraud, unfair trade procedures, non-compete, non-solicit and non-disclosure agreements, and breach of agreement. Mark has served as very first chair in extra than nine jury trials, five of which lasted a week or lengthier. He has correctly argued instances in advance of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court docket. Mark is also a NCDRC accredited mediator and AAA panel member.