Akin Gump Staking Clean Energy Claim in S.F.

Rick Gittleman sees the future of energy. It looks renewable, with a lot of it California-based.

Gittleman, an Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner who handles energy infrastructure financing and transactions, just relocated five weeks ago from Akin's D.C. office to San Francisco to head up the firm's renewable energy initiative. Akin Gump expects to add four more partners in San Francisco in a bid to extend its energy practice from traditional oil and gas companies and utilities to solar, wind and other types of power.

What are they thinking?  After the jump ...