Active across the global energy market, Sidley Austin LLP regularly supports clients on the financing, development, acquisition, and disposal of utility-scale energy projects, with additional strength in emerging and innovative transaction structures. Leadership of the practice is shared between three senior partners: Houston-based Cliff Vrielink, Kenneth Irvin in Washington DC, and New York partner Tara Higgins. Higgins advises a broad mix of developers, lenders, multilateral institutions, and private equity investors on matters involving conventional power, hydroelectric, solar, and wind assets. In Los Angeles, Andrea Wang Lucan is a key contact for energy project development and finance work, with experience spanning joint ventures, equipment procurement arrangements, and power purchase agreements.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Key clients
- Nexus Renewable Power
- NRG Energy, Inc.
- RBC Community Investments, LLC
- Ørsted Onshore North America
- Northern Biogas
- Harrison Street
- JP Morgan Green Economy Banking
- Morgan Stanley Capital Group
- American Electric Power and Kentucky Power Company
- Vistra Corporation
- Invenergy
- Primergy Solar, LLC
Work highlights
Represented Harrison Street, an investment management firm exclusively focused on alternative real assets, in the formation of a renewable-energy focused joint venture with Competitive Power Ventures Group (CPV), an electric power generation development and asset management company.
Represented Nuveen, LLC in providing a senior secured term loan facility to a subsidiary of Redaptive, Inc.
Represented RBC Community Investments on behalf of a tax equity syndicate making a tax equity investment of more than US$500 million in rPlus’s Green River Energy Center project, a 400 MWac solar photovoltaic facility and 400 MW/1,600 MWh battery energy storage facility located in Emery County, Utah.
Practice head
Cliff Vrielink; Kenneth Irvin; Tara Higgins
Other key lawyers
Andrea Wang Lucan