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Sean Moran

Sean Moran

Vinson & Elkins LLP, United States

Work Department

Tax

Position

Sean focuses on asset finance, with an emphasis on financing, acquiring, and disposing of renewable energy, zero carbon, and infrastructure assets. Instrumental in creating the structure that has become the standard for renewable energy deals in the United States, Sean has handled many of the country’s largest and most complex renewable energy financing transactions, including numerous first-of-its-kind deals.

In the course of his practice, Sean represents Fortune 50 companies, investors, sponsors, and developers. His clients include some of the largest investors in the renewable energy market, collectively investing billions of dollars in renewable energy generation. His projects include wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and waste-to-energy facilities that generate electric power in all but a couple of states.

Recently, he has represented both investors and sponsors in the development of solar and storage facilities, off-shore wind power facilities, and fossil fuel power facilities that sequester carbon.

Sean is ranked by Chambers USA as a Band 1 lawyer nationally in Projects: Renewables and Alternative Energy.

Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1988 (Fordham Law Review, Member) New York University School of Law, LL.M., Tax, 1994 Fordham University, B.S., 1981

Mentions

Finance • United States

Project finance

Energy • United States

Renewable/alternative power