National law firm Husch Blackwell represented SKS Development LLC (“SKS”), a national biogas developer creating waste‐to-energy facilities that generate renewable natural gas (“RNG”), in securing a strategic investment from SWEN Capital Partners (“SWEN CP”), a Paris-based investment firm with over $8 billion in assets under management, to accelerate project development.
“The Husch Blackwell team’s skill and industry knowledge were instrumental in our ability to negotiate and close this valuable deal,” said Nathan Kennedy, SKS’ Chief Operating Officer.
SKS develops, constructs, and operates biogas facilities across multiple states, and has longstanding relationships in the dairy and food processing industries. In partnership with SWEN CP, SKS plans to maintain its strong focus on the dairy sector while pursuing emerging opportunities involving other organic waste resources capable of generating renewable energy.
The current SKS portfolio includes seven RNG production facilities in various stages of construction, operation, or expansion in the United States. Once fully operational, these facilities, which use anaerobic digestion to process the organic waste generated at 13 different dairy farms, are expected to produce nearly 1.5 million dekatherms of RNG annually.
The Husch Blackwell team was led by partners David Gardels, Victoria Sitz, Andrew Eastman, and Doug Jones, and included attorneys Gabriel Riekhof, Tanner Whited, and Megan Christopher, and senior paralegal Colleen Tieman.
For further information, please refer to the Dec. 3, 2024, SKS Development news release.