Government Advisory

We assist private and publicly-held companies with a wide range of government financing activities including:

• Loan guarantees through the DOE Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF)
• Grants through the DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI)
• Funding programs through the Department of War, Office of Strategic Capital (OSC)
• Funding through the Department of War and DOE for rare earth and critical minerals
• Funding through the Department of Commerce, Chips Program Office
• Funding through the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and U.S. Export-Import Bank (USEXIM)
• Funding programs for early-stage energy research through DOE, ARPA-E

Our unique skill-set is to help companies navigate the government finance challenge using investment banking and project finance skills, not K Street lobbying strategies.

If you are looking to develop and document the most promising financial strategy, obtain the best advice on transaction structuring, develop a convincing financial model, assist in negotiation with very knowledgeable Wall Street executives who are currently at the DOE, DOW or Commerce, we are the only investment bank that has experienced DOE people to help you.

HamiltonClark is a “one-stop shop,” able to advise both on government programs and assist our clients in raising private sector capital and project financing, which is often required for EDF loan guarantees and CMEI cost-share grants.

Learn more about our Government Advisory Team:

Ken Cestari: Former Acting Chief Counsel and Deputy Chief Counsel at the DOE LPO (EDF)

Rob Edwards: Former Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy DOE and Director Outreach and Business Development Division at the DOE LPO (EDF)

John Ravis: Former finance consultant to the DOE LPO’s (EDF) credit underwriting team

Doug Schultz: Former Chief Operating Officer for the DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) and was the Head of Origination for the LPO (EDF).