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At ETAG, we have multi-disciplinary experience with unique perspectives from wearing many different hats. We work with the public and private sector, with project developers and financiers, and with debt and equity investors.  We have been on the executive leadership teams of large and small organizations and on investment committees.  We have worked with some of the largest corporates in the world, as well as start-ups.  We have worked all over the world, from the U.S. to the ‘stans to Latin America and Africa.  We understand the big picture of companies’ strategic objectives and the details of everyday operations.  We have been trained in the nuts and bolts of infrastructure project finance at top-tier global law firms.

Kimberly Heimert is an accomplished General Counsel and Strategic Advisor with 30 years of experience focusing on climate change and the energy transition.  She has 10 years experience in top-tier global law firms in the U.S., Asia, and Europe and 15 years of corporate experience, eight as General Counsel.  She has expertise across debt and equity investing, infrastructure development and financing, renewable energy development, financing, and operations, and investment fund creation and fundraising.

As Founder and CEO of Energy Transition Advisory Group, Ms. Heimert works with various clients on domestic and international renewable energy and energy transition matters. Most recently, she has advised private sector clients and the U.S. Government in connection with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) and Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), as well as the Department of Defense Office of Strategic Capital. Ms. Heimert also regularly advises foreign governments on how to attract foreign investment and foreign investors on how to effectively invest in emerging markets.

Kimberly Heimert

Ms. Heimert has worked with the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition at the Wilson Center to strengthen the U.S. role in global infrastructure and is a non-executive director for AltEnergy Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: AEAE), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, asset acquisition, stock purchase or other business combination with one or more businesses to advance alternative energy technologies and infrastructure globally. 

Ms. Heimert began her career with more than ten years of experience at top-tier NY-based law firms (e.g., White & Case, Chadbourne & Parke, and Shearman & Sterling) in New York, Uzbekistan, London, and Washington, D.C., before becoming a Managing Director and Counsel at GE Energy Financial Services (a part of GE Capital) in 2005.

Her private sector and commercial DNA led her to an offer to help the U.S. government kick-start utility-scale renewable energy investments with private sector, where she was part of the leadership team of the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office that worked with the private sector to invest approximately $42 billion in 42 commercial renewable energy projects in just two years.  Due to her commercial nature and the private sector sensibility she brought to DOE, Ms. Heimert was asked by President Obama to become the General Counsel of OPIC (now the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)).  While at OPIC, she was on the Investment Committee and was recognized as a commercial lawyer and leader who brought the private sector perspective to DFI investing.  During Ms. Heimert’s tenure, she was deeply involved in the strategy shift that caused OPIC to increase its annual investments by approximately 25%, resulting in annual investments of $4 billion and annual profits of approximately $400 million.

Ms. Heimert re-joined the commercial world in 2018 as the General Counsel of the Africa50 Infrastructure Fund, an $880 million investment fund that develops and invests equity in African infrastructure projects.  In addition to being on the Senior Leadership Team, she was responsible for the transactional and corporate legal and compliance teams, was the primary liaison and advisor to the Board of Directors and its Committees, and supervised the establishment of an enterprise risk framework regime. Ms. Heimert also was significantly instrumental in growing Africa50 from a start-up to a fully functioning investment fund with a net asset value of more than US$400 million.  She co-led Africa50’s work to develop the Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund, a private equity investment fund with a goal of raising US$500 million from third-party global and African institutional investors to invest in African infrastructure projects.

Ms. Heimert earned a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Broadcast Journalism, summa cum laude, from The American University. She also completed a Harvard Business School Executive Education Program mini-MBA course for General Counsels.