Georgia Emily Bellett

georgia.bellett@lw.com

+1.213.891.8307

Profile

Georgia Bellett advises energy companies, financial institutions, private equity firms, and project developers on a range of transactional and regulatory environmental matters, including climate change, renewable fuel programs, carbon neutrality, voluntary and compliance-grade environmental commodities, and low-carbon project development, including carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects.

Georgia’s experience includes transactional diligence, contract negotiation, and permitting.

Before joining Latham, Georgia worked in the banking and financial services practice of a leading New Zealand law firm. There, she advised some of New Zealand’s largest banks and corporations on a wide range of debt capital markets, corporate finance, and regulatory matters. She also completed a five-month secondment at Meridian Energy, New Zealand’s largest renewable energy generator and electricity retailer.

Experience

Georgia’s experience includes advising:

Attero in connection with the development of CO2 capture, transportation, and sequestration at Attero’s waste-to-energy facility in the Netherlands
Ardian in connection with carbon credit transactions globally
Bregal Sphere on its participation in Imperative’s US$114 million funding close for the Spekboom ecosystem restoration project in South Africa, which scaled the project to 60,000 hectares of funded restoration and combined streaming capital from a syndicate of institutional investors with a World Bank outcome bond, anchored by an offtake agreement with Amazon
CNX Resources on environmental attribute and federal tax matters
Carbon TerraVault Joint Venture, a carbon management partnership between California Resources Corporation and Brookfield, on its first carbon dioxide injection at its Carbon TerraVault I project, a CCS project located in Kern County, California (ongoing)
Chevron on environmental commodity transactions, including carbon offset credits
Elimini on the marketing and sale of carbon removal credits from a European BECCS project
Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator on a US$1.5 billion REDD+ carbon credit transaction announced at COP-26 across 25 global companies, including Amazon, Salesforce, Unilever, Bayer, and Nestle (ongoing)
Harvestone Low Carbon Partners on various matters related to clean fuel tax credits and its CCS projects
Holganix in connection with the development of a soil carbon project in the US and associated matters
Indigo on the development of its Indigo Carbon business, including on a transaction with Microsoft for the sale of carbon removal credits
Mombak, a Brazilian carbon removal startup, on the structuring, negotiation, and drafting of the carbon-forward purchase agreement with Microsoft
Occidental Petroleum on multiple CCS transactions
Terradot on long-term purchase agreements and an equity investment to catalyze Terradot’s enhanced rock weathering projects
Toyota on the expansion of its electric vehicle charging station capabilities and development of renewable energy generation projects
A Norwegian chemical company on the development of two blue ammonia facilities with CCS capabilities in the US
A CCUS company on a transaction with Microsoft for the offtake of carbon removal credits

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

California

Education

LLM, University of California, Berkeley, 2022
Certificate of Specialization in Renewable Energy and Clean Technology
BS in Neuroscience, University of Otago, 2017
LLB (Hons), University of Otago, 2017