Alex Lewis

Alex Lewis advises developers, manufacturers, corporate investors, private equity firms and financial institutions on the federal income tax aspects of renewable energy project development and finance. He assists clients with the qualification, monetization and preservation of energy tax credits. Based in Portland, he counsels clients in the clean fuels, solar, battery and energy storage, domestic manufacturing, hydrogen, wind and carbon capture industries.

Alex helps clients navigate the full range of federal energy tax credits. These include investment tax credits (ITCs) and production tax credits (PTCs) for renewable electricity, hydrogen, clean fuels, carbon capture and sequestration, and domestic manufacturing. He advises on energy property qualification, transfer and direct pay of credits, domestic content requirements, and prevailing wage and apprenticeship rules. He also works with clients on foreign entity of concern (FEOC) analyses and helps design structures that keep credit eligibility intact under those restrictions.

He provides tax advice across the project life cycle, supporting clients in the structuring, financing, development, acquisition, disposition and operation of renewable energy projects. His transactional work includes tax credit monetization, tax equity investments, purchases and sales of individual projects and development platforms, and the structuring and coordination of project finance transactions, joint ventures and U.S. inbound investments.

Before joining Holland & Knight, Alex was an attorney in the Portland office of an international law firm. While in law school, he served as a judicial extern for Judge Michael L. Robinson of the North Carolina Special Superior Court for Complex Business Cases and as deputy director of the Wake Forest Pro Bono Project.

Alex is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Oregon.