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Kenneth A. Johnson

Associate

Kenneth A. Johnson

Associate

Kenneth (Ken) Johnson focuses on mergers and acquisitions, regulatory affairs, and strategic joint ventures and commercial transactions. He also has experience developing organizational structures for regulated industries, aligning compliance obligations with access to capital. He represents institutional, industrial, and infrastructure clients in the energy, mobility, and manufacturing sectors, with experience that includes multi asset portfolios, campus scale service agreements, and mission critical technology and commercial facilities with specialized energy requirements.

His practice spans corporate transactions, energy and capital markets, and industry specific regulatory frameworks. Ken’s enterprise perspectives are shaped by his work as a founding member of the University of Michigan Health System Finance Development Program prior to law school, and he maintains active membership in the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Energy and Environment Committee. He is also a member of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s MichAuto initiative, and particularly enjoys engaging with policymakers and industry leaders on regulatory and market developments in the energy and mobility space.

Ken also counsels public benefit organizations and advises nonprofit clients in Detroit, across Michigan, and nationally on governance and strategic matters. Prior to joining Foley as a summer associate in 2018, he worked on bond issuances and real estate transactions for public schools and municipalities in Lansing.

Representative Experience

  • Facilitating the equity sale of seven family-owned landfill gas-to-power facilities in Michigan and Kentucky to a publicly traded pipeline company for conversion to renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities.
  • Representation of various solar development companies in project sales, of an energy cooperative in the asset sale of 2000+ MW of natural gas-fired power generation asset pursuant to a Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and supporting the acquisition by an international trading company of domestic shipping and wood-pellet production facilities.
  • Transactional support for leading manufacturers in the automotive, innovative technologies, waste, healthcare, and heavy-industry sectors, with an emphasis on transactions to acquire or divest from product lines, corporate reorganization, and entity dissolutions.
  • Representations of leading cannabis producers in combinations, licensing compliance, and in negotiating joint-venture agreements with major vertically integrated industry participants.
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