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Kim Diamond is a corporate finance and capital markets lawyer with a diversified practice. Her experience includes the representation of domestic and international commercial banks, financial institutions, asset managers, funds, sponsors, large corporations, and others in numerous complex multi-million and multi-billion dollar transactions in the public and private markets. Ms. Diamond’s fund and structured finance experience spans a broad range of asset classes, including loans, bonds, bank trust preferred securities, insurance trust preferred securities and REIT trust preferred securities, as well as securities back by commercial mortgages and receivables from other asset classes. She has represented clients based in South America, Australia, Canada, Iceland, and other foreign countries. In addition to her extensive private practice experience in large international law firms, Ms. Diamond also served as Counsel for the Fixed Income desk at Credit Suisse.
Ms. Diamond is involved in various renewable and alternative energy initiatives. She is currently national Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Carbon Trading and Energy Finance Committee, and is the editor of the ABA's Carbon Trading and Energy Finance Committee Newsletter, a publication covering current issues, policy matters, and other recent legal developments in the areas of climate change mitigation, project finance transactions, commodities and derivatives, and international carbon emissions regulation and trading. For the most recent newsletter, click here.
Presentations
- Moderator, "The Current State of Carbon Trading," American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, June 7, 2010.
- Co-Presenter, "Capitalizing on Wind Rights During the Evolution of Wind Policy Standards," American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) WINDPOWER 2010 Conference & Exhibition, Dallas, TX, May 25, 2010.
- Presenter, "The Benefits of Wind Power for New Jersey," LWVNJ Alternative Energy for New Jersey Conference, Princeton, NJ, April 10, 2010.
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Kimberly E. Diamond's presentation on the benefits of utility scale offshore and onshore wind power for New Jersey, delivered at the New Jersey League of Women Voters' Alternative Energy for New Jersey Conference, is highlighted.,
TheAlternativePress.com, April 13, 2010
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Cornell University Law School
(J.D., 1998)
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University of Michigan
(A.B., 1989)
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New York
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New Jersey
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- American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER)
- Vice Chair, Congressional Relations Task Force
- Vice Chair, Carbon Trading and Energy Finance Committee
- Environmental Commission, Berkeley Heights, NJ
- Mayor-Appointed Member
- Chair, Water Usage Team, Sustainability Subcommittee
- Women of Wind Energy
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