Hagai Zaifman

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HAGAI ZAIFMAN is a leading practitioner in the renewable energy and energy transition tax space. Hagai advises developers, sponsors, leading private equity and strategic investors, and lenders in connection with wind, solar, battery storage, clean hydrogen, fuel cell, biogas, carbon capture, and other alternative energy projects, as well as conventional power generation facilities.

Hagai has extensive experience structuring, planning, and negotiating renewable energy and energy transition transactions, with particular emphasis on tax equity financing through flip partnerships and leases, projects’ development, repowering transactions and dispositions, including advising on the qualification for, and monetization of, the various available clean energy tax credits, such as the Section 45 production tax credits (PTC), Section 48 investment tax credits (ITC), Section 45Q carbon capture and sequestration tax credits, section 45V clean hydrogen tax credits, and other renewable energy tax incentives and credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Prior to joining Sidley, Hagai was the Tax Director at GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS), one of the leading investors in renewable energy projects in the United States. In this role, Hagai led the GE EFS tax team and oversaw all tax aspects of the business, including underwriting, structuring, investing, managing, and disposing of its debt and equity portfolio.