Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that its client, Consolidated Edison Development, Inc. (CED), a developer and owner of renewable gas and transmission assets with a focus on the Northeastern United States, along with Texas-based Panda Power Funds, plans to build a 20-megawatt solar farm on a 100-acre site in Pilesgrove, New Jersey. The farm will be connected directly to the electrical grid via the Atlantic City Electric distribution system. Greenberg Traurig’s team advising CED on the solar project included Robert Wexler, a shareholder in the Corporate and Securities Practice of the New Jersey office; Steven Fleissig, a shareholder in the Real Estate Practice in the New Jersey office; and Charles Schwenck, Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources Practice in the Los Angeles office.

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP today announced a major victory for its client, UK-based Smith & Nephew, a worldwide leader in wound care.  On October 18, 2010, a Texas Federal Court ruled that patents licensed to San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) on negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) are invalid.  NPWT is the treatment of difficult-to-heal open skin wounds with the application of negative pressure.