Elias Hinckley

Elias Hinckley focuses his practice on solving a broad range of clean energy business, tax and policy challenges for his clients around the world. Mr. Hinckley has provided tax and business support to public utility, banking, private equity, real estate, engineering, construction, manufacturing and alternative energy companies, including successfully structuring complex financing solutions, by obtaining and integrating tax incentives, grants, loan guarantees, and regulatory attributes with the traditional financial and energy markets. He has experience representing clients across energy sectors, including solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, hydroelectric, batteries, fuel cells, energy efficiency, demand response, transmission natural gas and advanced coal.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hinckley was a partner and leader of the clean energy practice for a large national law firm, handling issues ranging from global operation of natural gas markets to positioning new technologies for policy programs. He co-developed and chaired the firm’s clean technology and venture business incubator program.

Mr. Hinckley’s prior experience also includes building a national alternative energy tax practice for one of the world’s largest professional services firms. He co-authored that firm’s global climate change strategy, and co-led the sustainability practice with specific responsibility for the global energy industry and the global tax practice.

Mr. Hinckley also acts as a strategic advisor on energy policy and markets, and is an adjunct professor of International Energy Policy at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He teaches seminars on international energy policy focused on the dramatic and dynamic changes affecting energy policy, regulatory and market landscapes, and how energy use and production will evolve in the future.