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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.
Nicholas Gladd
Partner
Nicholas (Nic) Gladd is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s energy and climate solutions practice. Nic helps independent power producers, clean energy project developers, technology companies, and investors manage risk and find competitive advantages in the increasingly complex and dynamic power sector. He is experienced in helping clients both navigate and shape regulatory frameworks at the federal and state levels, counseling on power market design, and structuring and negotiating commercial agreements for clean energy generation and energy storage projects and operating assets.
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.
Elise N. Zoli
Partner
Elise Zoli is a partner in the energy and climate solutions practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses on advancing strategic alliances in the clean energy, water, agriculture, and de-carbonized sectors.
Todd G. Glass
Partner
Todd leads a market-leading energy development and finance practice focused on the representation of energy companies, project developers, and investment banks.
Peter D. Mostow
Partner
Peter represents renewable and other energy sector clients in transactional matters.
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.
Gregory P. Broome
Partner
Greg's tax practice includes experience in M&A, IPOs, and renewable energy and project development and finance.
Matthew Christiansen
Partner
Matt Christiansen is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the energy and climate solutions practice. As a former general counsel at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and one of the nation’s leading energy regulatory attorneys, Matt represents a diverse range of clients, including independent power producers, hyperscalers and other large energy consumers, and trade associations, both before FERC and in the development of energy and digital infrastructure, such as data centers.
He has extensive experience with major FERC proceedings involving energy market rules, generator and load interconnection procedures, and the development of electric transmission facilities and natural gas infrastructure. Matt specializes in crafting novel arguments that combine his unparalleled experience at FERC with his understanding of the relevant statutes, regulations, and court precedent, as well as in representing clients at every stage of the regulatory proceeding, including initial pleadings, rehearing requests, and appeals, where necessary.
Matt also represents clients in negotiations involving the development of both energy infrastructure and digital infrastructure. He has particular expertise in negotiating FERC-jurisdictional agreements and in applying his experience with the relevant rules and regulations to secure the most favorable outcome for his clients.
As FERC’s general counsel, Matt oversaw a team of more than 200 lawyers on all manner of adjudicatory and rulemaking matters and was involved in nearly every aspect of the commission’s work, including supervising the its activity in federal courts throughout the country. He has extensive knowledge of FERC rules and regulations under the Federal Power Act and Natural Gas Act, particularly with respect to energy markets and the development of electric transmission facilities and interstate natural gas pipelines.
Prior to becoming general counsel, Matt was a legal advisor to FERC Commissioner Richard Glick and an attorney-advisor in FERC’s Office of General Counsel. Before joining FERC, Matt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Honorable Jesse M. Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Matt is a lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where he teaches Advanced State and Federal Electricity Law.
He has extensive experience with major FERC proceedings involving energy market rules, generator and load interconnection procedures, and the development of electric transmission facilities and natural gas infrastructure. Matt specializes in crafting novel arguments that combine his unparalleled experience at FERC with his understanding of the relevant statutes, regulations, and court precedent, as well as in representing clients at every stage of the regulatory proceeding, including initial pleadings, rehearing requests, and appeals, where necessary.
Matt also represents clients in negotiations involving the development of both energy infrastructure and digital infrastructure. He has particular expertise in negotiating FERC-jurisdictional agreements and in applying his experience with the relevant rules and regulations to secure the most favorable outcome for his clients.
As FERC’s general counsel, Matt oversaw a team of more than 200 lawyers on all manner of adjudicatory and rulemaking matters and was involved in nearly every aspect of the commission’s work, including supervising the its activity in federal courts throughout the country. He has extensive knowledge of FERC rules and regulations under the Federal Power Act and Natural Gas Act, particularly with respect to energy markets and the development of electric transmission facilities and interstate natural gas pipelines.
Prior to becoming general counsel, Matt was a legal advisor to FERC Commissioner Richard Glick and an attorney-advisor in FERC’s Office of General Counsel. Before joining FERC, Matt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Honorable Jesse M. Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Matt is a lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where he teaches Advanced State and Federal Electricity Law.
U.P. Peter Eng
Partner
Specializes in strategic patent and innovation counseling for technology start-ups.
Ben Hoch
Partner
Ben advises clients on the entire spectrum of corporate finance and financial restructuring matters; he represents companies in a wide array of industries, including tech, energy, electric utility, internet, construction, manufacturing, retail, and aerospace industries.
Randy Lewis
Partner
Randy Lewis is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focuses on the representation of technology and growth companies at all stages of their development, from seed-stage start-ups to mature public companies across industry sectors, but with an emphasis on the energy, infrastructure, internet services, internet infrastructure, consumer products, and sustainability sectors.
Austin March
Partner
Austin March is a partner in the Austin office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focuses on corporate and securities matters for both public and late-stage private companies, as well as for financial institutions, venture capital firms, and other investors. Austin has represented clients across a wide range of industries, including energy and cleantech, autonomous vehicles, fintech, software, life sciences, medical technology, manufacturing, hospitality, and logistics. Austin works with public and private companies on a range of transactions, including financings, initial public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. He also advises clients on matters such as general corporate law, fiduciary duties, and governance and public company disclosure, as well as reporting with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bob O'Connor
Partner
Bob serves as a strategic partner to his clients and their boards of directors through a broad range of complex financing and strategic corporate transactions at all stages of their development.
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.
Manja S. Sachet
Partner
Manja focuses on intellectual property and technology matters in commercial and strategic corporate transactions.
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.
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.
Andrew J. Hirsch
Partner Emeritus
Andy represented companies in diverse industries and has three decades of leadership in the development and evolution of venture lending.
Andrew T. Braff
Senior Counsel
Andrew Braff is senior counsel in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on infrastructure and energy project development, project finance, and other commercial transactions. Andy's work primarily involves assisting developers of solar, biomass, biofuels, biogas, geothermal, wind, CHP, renewable chemical, carbon capture and sequestration/utilization (CCS/CCUS), and energy storage projects, as well as zero emission vehicle infrastructure, manufacturing facilities, and datacenters. His experience includes advising on, negotiating, and drafting complex construction and commercial documentation, including: engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreements; build-transfer agreements; supply and offtake agreements; contract manufacturing agreements; equipment purchase and sale agreements; operation and maintenance (O&M) agreements; and real property sale and lease agreements. Andy's practice also includes advising on joint ventures, acquisitions (asset and equity), federal government contracts, and assisting clients in securing non-dilutive government financing for project development, including through the U.S. Department of Energy's and Department of Agriculture's Loan Guarantee Programs.
Andrew Bryant
Senior Counsel
Andrew Bryant is senior counsel in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on federal partnership and corporate taxation matters related to technology and life sciences companies. He has significant experience in advising public and private companies regarding tax matters in mergers and acquisitions, emerging company formation and planning, equity and debt financings, initial public offerings, and corporate restructurings. More recently, Andrew has devoted a significant portion of his practice to tax issues related to renewable energy and project development and tax equity financings.
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.