Sheppard

Corporate

Michael Malfettone counsels entities across the energy transition economy, working at the junction of private equity and sustainable infrastructure to match capital sources and deployment strategies to business goals and shape transaction frameworks. He helps clients evaluate pathways for deals, surface opportunities and design bespoke structures that advance growth and investment objectives.

The core of Michael’s work spans corporate acquisitions, growth capital and control equity investments, project M&A, joint ventures and hybrid equity financings. Engagements range from infrastructure funds deploying capital through various investment strategies, to developers acquiring renewable portfolios, to clean technology platforms, equipment manufacturers and infrastructure service providers seeking scale through business expansion or strategic investment.

Michael Malfettone is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's New York office.

Areas of Practice

Michael has over a decade of experience assisting clients in a wide range of energy transactions, with a practice strategically focused on the intersection of sustainable infrastructure and private equity. Michael regularly advises clients in the renewable energy, energy transition and sustainable infrastructure space in connection with corporate and project-based M&A and finance transactions across different industry technologies, assets and verticals. Clients often turn to Michael with their most complex issues and transactions, relying on his industry expertise, deep understanding of their business, and experience with conceptualizing, negotiating and documenting a myriad of bespoke and first-of-its-kind deal structures.

Private Equity – M&A, Buyouts and Equity Investments

Michael represents private equity funds (with an emphasis on infrastructure funds) and other institutional and strategic investors in a variety of investment transactions, ranging from lower to upper mid-market M&A, leveraged buyouts, platform and bolt-on acquisitions, divestitures and exit transactions to early stage, minority and growth equity investments spanning across the sustainable infrastructure and clean technology sectors.

Energy Projects – M&A, Joint Ventures and Project Financings

Michael advises independent power producers, developers, asset managers, investors and other financing parties in connection with acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, joint development arrangements and cash and tax equity financings of renewable and energy transition projects and portfolios throughout the United States and internationally. Michael has worked on the acquisition, development, construction and financing of well over 20,000 megawatts of distributed generation and utility-scale solar, wind, battery storage and hydroelectric projects as well as hydrogen, renewable natural gas, biofuels and other energy transition technologies.