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Ira M. Palgon
Partner
Ira focuses on a broad array of structured financing transactions, with experience representing banks, investment banks, and institutional and private investors in complex asset-based and non-asset-based transactions.
Scott A. Zimmermann
Partner
Scott Zimmermann represents companies in the solar, energy storage, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources markets. He also helps clients in developing industries such as water and electric vehicles.
Nicole Gambino
Senior Of Counsel
Nicole Gambino is Senior Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. She specializes in tax matters related to project finance, with a focus on renewable energy and infrastructure assets. Her clients include developers of solar, wind, and energy storage facilities. Nicole has also represented financial institutions and other investors that finance utility-scale wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass facilities, as well as investors in new market tax credit transactions. She has extensive experience utilizing a variety of structures to finance these assets, has worked on numerous cutting-edge deals, and has advised clients more broadly in their debt financings, initial public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.
Ken Sanocki
Partner
Ken Sanocki is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on a broad range of structured and project finance transactions in the energy sector. Ken has extensive experience in tax equity, tax credit transfers, construction financing, securitizations, and other structured financings, particularly for portfolios of distributed energy resources, and he applies this experience for clients pursuing the development of energy asset classes with commercial, industrial, and institutional customers, as well as community solar and utility-scale energy generators.
Prior to joining the firm, Ken was vice president of legal at Sunrun, where he oversaw all project finance legal matters, including tax equity financings, tax credit sale agreements, securitizations, warehouse facilities, and other complex debt facilities. At Sunrun, Ken led more than 50 tax equity financings totaling over $10 billion, drafting all necessary documents and deliverables and generally managing all legal aspects of such financings. Ken previously served as the company’s deputy general counsel, assistant general counsel, and senior counsel.
Earlier in his career, Ken was senior counsel for global structured and project finance at SunEdison and a project finance associate at Milbank.
Prior to joining the firm, Ken was vice president of legal at Sunrun, where he oversaw all project finance legal matters, including tax equity financings, tax credit sale agreements, securitizations, warehouse facilities, and other complex debt facilities. At Sunrun, Ken led more than 50 tax equity financings totaling over $10 billion, drafting all necessary documents and deliverables and generally managing all legal aspects of such financings. Ken previously served as the company’s deputy general counsel, assistant general counsel, and senior counsel.
Earlier in his career, Ken was senior counsel for global structured and project finance at SunEdison and a project finance associate at Milbank.
Omar Jooma
Associate
Omar Jooma is an associate in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. His practice focuses on representing sponsors, developers, and borrowers in project and structured finance, acquisitions, and project development transactions. He also advises lenders, tax equity investors, private equity funds, and other investors in the renewable energy and clean technology sectors.
Jason Slagle
Partner
Jason Slagle is a partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm's energy and climate solutions practice. Jason’s practice focuses on advising clients across solar, wind, energy storage, CCUS, green hydrogen and ammonia, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources, and other renewable technology industries. He represents emerging and established companies, private equity and debt investors, and project developers in private equity finance, debt project finance, structured finance, project development and start-up counseling. Jason’s practice also includes joint ventures, cross border transactions, and sales and acquisitions of project assets and special purpose entities, as well as general corporate matters.
Matthew A. Bogdan
Partner
Matthew Bogdan is a partner in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm's energy and climate solutions practice. Matthew advises clients on a broad range of issues affecting the energy, infrastructure, and clean technology industries throughout the project development and financing process. He has extensive experience in the wind, solar, energy storage, electrical vehicle (EV) charging, renewable natural gas, data center, biofuels, hydropower, energy efficiency, hydrogen, and distributed energy sectors. Matthew’s clients are developing and financing the energy transition that will transform the United States over the next decade.
Stanford A. Renas
Partner
Stanford (Stan) A. Renas is a partner in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. A leading practitioner in the project finance market, Stan has extensive experience advising financial institutions, energy companies, and multinational corporations on a broad range of complex structured finance, project finance, derivatives, and trade finance matters, with a focus on the energy and climate solutions sector.
Jared Kawalsky
Of Counsel
Jared Kawalsky is Of Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Century City office. Jared's transactional tax practice includes structuring complex clean energy deals to maximize the value of federal tax incentives, including investment and production tax credits. He has drafted and negotiated tax provisions included in partnership agreements, transfer agreements, credit facilities, and security documents. He also has experience advising stakeholders in cross-border merger and acquisition transactions involving businesses in a variety of industries on tax structuring and related considerations.
Bob Hemm
Senior Counsel
Bob Hemm is senior counsel in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice.
Karli Upfill-Brown
Senior Counsel
Karli Upfill-Brown is senior counsel in the Century City office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. Her practice focuses on advising clients across the climate technology space, including solar, wind, energy storage, energy efficiency, grid services, electric vehicle charging, carbon capture and storage, decarbonization processes, water efficiency, and recycling. She has also worked on key commercial contracts for the development of data centers in the United States.
Katherine Ashbolt
Associate
Katherine Ashbolt is an associate in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. She advises clients on major transactional work and projects relating to energy and infrastructure. She has experience with a range of climate technologies, including solar, wind, energy storage, energy efficiency, grid services, electric vehicle charging, carbon capture and storage, decarbonization processes, water efficiency, and recycling.
Kelly Cook
Associate
Kelly Cook is an associate in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. She assists clients in the renewable energy and climate technology sectors with major corporate, infrastructure, and financial transactions. She also guides clients on regulatory compliance with state and federal energy laws.
Sylvia Koh
Associate
Sylvia Koh is an associate in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm's energy and climate solutions practice. Sylvia's practice focuses on advising clients across solar, wind, energy storage, CCUS, green hydrogen and ammonia, energy efficiency, distributed energy resources, and other renewable technology industries. She represents emerging and established companies, advising on private equity and project finance, hybrid tax equity finance, tax credit transfers, corporate joint ventures and M&A, and project development.
Clara Liang
Associate
Clara Liang is an associate in the Boston office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is part of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice.
James Newhouse
Associate
James Newhouse is an associate in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is part of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. James helps developers, investors, and offtakers structure, negotiate, and close complex and often first-of-their-kind commercial transactions in the energy sector, including power purchase agreements, virtual power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, and agreements to deploy EV charging infrastructure. He works closely with clients to identify and allocate risk across these transactions so that they can move transactions efficiently to execution.
Narayan Subramanian
Associate
Narayan Subramanian is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice. He advises cleantech companies and clean energy developers on transactions and regulatory matters.
Lydia Wu
Associate
Lydia Wu is an associate in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her practice focuses on renewable energy projects and emerging climate technology companies.