Michele brings over 20 years of experience in project and corporate finance, solar energy start-ups, operations, institutional investment and regulation, and general corporate law to IPC’s focus on providing bringing green finance capital and expertise to underserved markets. She worked for 13 years at Barings LLC, an institutional asset manager, as Counsel and later as Associate General Counsel and Managing Director, where she ran the Regulatory and Trading Legal Team, which handled all of the corporate, regulatory, and trading matters for the global firm.  

At Barings, Michele gained in-depth experience in institutional investment, operations, and corporate finance. She previously served as Assistant Vice President and Counsel for Corporate and Retirement Income at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, the parent company of Barings LLC. Prior to moving in-house, she was outside counsel in the Projects and Structured Finance Group at Bingham McCutchen LLP, where she worked on all aspects of project finance deals in the electric power industry, and on corporate finance transactions.  As part of her project finance work, Michele worked on equity and debt financings, securities offerings, development, construction, and portfolio acquisitions, and dispositions of energy projects. In addition, she is a Founding Investor & Advisor for Sungage Financial, a residential solar loan pioneer.