Smith, S. Stewart

Euclid Irving has nearly 30 years of experience representing clients in project finance, utility finance, and commercial and structured finance. He has substantial experience in financing a variety of facilities in limited recourse structures in the United States and in foreign countries, including power generating, pulp and paper, and engineered wood products facilities. His clients have included U.S. and international developers, EPC and power train providers, lenders, and engineering companies. He regularly represents leading international infrastructure and engineering firms in the turnkey supply of power generating facilities in the developing world.

He also has extensive experience advising electric utilities and providers of capital to utilities in financings at all levels of the utility capital structure, SEC reporting, and power supply issues. His transaction experience includes utility mergers and acquisitions, mortgage bond financings, and energy trading.

Euclid is a member of the board of directors of Green Mountain Power Corporation, where he chairs the audit committee of the board. Through his practice and board affiliation, he has acquired a deep knowledge of power industry issues and current issues relating to corporate governance.

Euclid regularly represents secured and unsecured lenders and borrowers in commercial lending and structured finance transactions, including acquisition financings, asset-based loans, and credit enhancement facilities.

From 1979 to 1981, Euclid was a foreign legal apprentice in the law firm of Anderson Mori & Rabinowitz, in Tokyo Japan.

Euclid is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation and a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Bar Association.