Rochelle leverages her extensive experience representing wind, solar, storage, and other energy companies throughout the United States to successfully counsel clients through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and project development transactions, with a focus on power purchase and other project offtake agreements.
Developers, sponsors, purchasers, sellers, and investors rely on Rochelle’s guidance and solution-oriented approach when buying or selling projects or navigating each phase of a project’s lifecycle – from inception to construction and through financing and operation.
In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Rochelle specializes in power purchase agreements (PPAs) and represents clients in the negotiation of traditional physical offtake PPAs with both utilities and private commercial and industrial offtakers, as well as financial and virtual PPAs, including ISDA and other hedge and swap agreements, as well as renewable energy credit (REC) transactions. Rochelle has successfully negotiated and helped clients execute dozens of corporate PPAs for renewable energy projects totaling more than 3 GW in the aggregate.
Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Rochelle served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marvin P. Isgur of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas.