O'Melveny & Myers LLP stands out for its strength in tax equity financing, one of the major recent topics in the US renewable energy market. The team also covers traditional M&A and financing matters in the renewables space and has recently advised on transactions involving sizeable wind farm and solar project portfolios. Junaid Chida chairs the wider energy group at the firm and assists clients with structuring and management of M&A and financing transactions. He is based in New York, while chair of the project development and real estate practice Michael Hamilton is a further key name. Jeff Hoffner is a seasoned counsel on construction and financing of renewable energy projects and Arthur Hazlitt stands out among the advisors on tax credits in the renewable sector. Both are also based in New York.
Key clients
- MPS Infrastructure
- CS Energy, LLC
Work highlights
- Represented CS Energy in its negotiation of the sale of an approximately 20MW portfolio of five solar projects in New Jersey.
- Advised the Sustainable Investing Group within Goldman Sachs’ Asset Management on providing tax equity to ClearGen to support an acquisition of wind farm portfolios from MUFG.