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Ingrid Rechtin

Ingrid Rechtin provides strategic legal advice to public and private companies in the life sciences, technology, energy, consumer goods and manufacturing sectors, ranging from start-ups to global corporations.

Her experience includes:

  • joint ventures
  • mergers and acquisitions, including product divestitures
  • venture capital investments (including corporate venture capital)
  • financings, including development funding transactions
  • licensing and complex commercial transactions
  • general corporate matters.

In addition, Ingrid has advised on numerous strategic investments in IP, including acquisitions and divestitures of patent portfolios and complex patent monetization transactions.

Earlier this week, President Trump released the outline of his infrastructure plan, which includes over three dozen proposals intended to reduce delay, inefficiency and redundancy in the project permitting process.  The plan contemplates amendments to major federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act.

Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015.  The law establishes ambitious energy efficiency and renewable energy goals for California, including increasing from 33% to 50% the procurement of California’s electricity from renewable sources and doubling the energy efficiency savings through energy efficiency and conservation.

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On March 19, 2014, the California Energy Commission, the state’s primary energy policy and planning agency, announced that it was initiating a regulatory process leading to the regulation of 15 categories of consumer appliances as to usage of electricity, natural gas, and water.  This comes in part in response to the three-year drought period in