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|                      | Washington, D.C. 20036\                       |
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# Practice Description

Keith Martin's principal areas of practice are tax and project finance.
He is a transactional lawyer who advised 97 companies last year and
worked on transactions in the United States and 12 foreign countries. He
also lobbies Congress and the Treasury Department on policy issues.

# Activities and Affiliations

-   Speaker: Mr. Martin is a frequent speaker on issues affecting the
    project finance community. Recent talks include at the Platt\'s
    Financing US Power conference in New York in November 2004, the
    annual meetings of the Independent Energy Producers in California
    and the Gulf Coast Power Association in Texas in September 2004, the
    Euromoney Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York, a distressed
    energy assets conference in Houston and the Ocean Energy 2004
    conference in Florida in June 2004, the Global Windpower 2004
    conference in Chicago in March 2004, a school on foreign tax
    planning conducted by the Tax Executives Institute in Houston in
    February 2004, the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation winter meeting
    and the landfill gas industry annual conference in January 2004, the
    Financing Wind Power Projects conference in December 2003, the
    Edison Electric Institute tax meeting in Santa Fe in November 2003,
    the Buying, Selling & Investing in Energy Assets conference in San
    Francisco in October 2003, conferences on opportunities in the
    distressed power sector in London and Chicago in July 2003, and an
    Edison Electric Institute meeting for utility tax directors in
    Vancouver in June 2003.

-   Editor: *Project Finance NewsWire*, and a contributing editor of
    *International Tax Report*, *Practical US/International Tax
    Strategies* and *Natural Gas & Electricity* magazine.

-   Author: He is the author of more than 120 articles on project
    finance subjects. Recent papers include:

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-   "Canadian Income Funds," in *Project Finance NewsWire,* December
    2003

-   "Tax Issues in Project Sales," *Project Finance NewsWire,* February
    2003

-   "Tax Issues and Incentives for Windpower Projects," *Project Finance
    NewsWire*, December 2002

-   "Potential Effects of Invading Iraq," *Project Finance NewsWire*,
    October 2002

-   "Corporate Inversions," *International Tax Review*, May 2002

-   "Synfuel and Section 29 Tax Credits," *Proceedings, Energy and
    Mineral Law Institute*, May 2002

-   "Storm Over Argentina," *Project Finance NewsWire*, February 2002

-   "Fallout from Enron," *Metropolitan Corporate Counsel*, January 2002

-   "Municipal Power Deals," *Project Finance Monthly*, February 2001

-   "Latest Tax Angles for Latin American Projects," *Practical Latin
    American Tax Strategies*, September 1999

-   "Cross Border Leasing," *Proceedings, EEI Tax School*, July 1997

-   "Tax Issues and Opportunities in Restructuring Contracts," *Project
    Finance International*, April 1997

-   "Beware the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," *International
    Commercial Litigation*, October 1996

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-   Honors: He is listed as one of the world's leading project finance
    lawyers in the latest Chambers global directory published in London.

# Education and Professional Background

-   Wesleyan University, B.A., 1974

-   George Washington University, J.D., 1977

-   The London School of Economics, M.Sc., 1978

-   Legislative Assistant, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D.-Washington),
    1974-1977

-   Counsel, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-New York), 1979-1982

-   Joined Chadbourne & Parke LLP in 1983 as a partner

# Practice Areas

-   Tax

-   Project finance

-   Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.S. trade sanctions