Hagai Zaifman

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HAGAI ZAIFMAN is a leading practitioner in the renewable energy and energy transition tax space. He advises developers, sponsors, leading private equity and strategic investors, and lenders in connection with wind, solar, battery storage, fuel cell, biogas, carbon capture, advanced manufacturing and other alternative energy projects, as well as conventional power generation facilities. Hagai has extensive experience structuring, planning, and negotiating renewable energy transactions, with particular emphasis on tax equity financing through flip partnerships, preferred equity, leases, projects’ development, repowering transactions and dispositions. Hagai is regularly advising clients on the qualification for, and monetization of, the various available clean energy tax credits, as well as on the changes and developments to the tax credit regime following the enactment of the OBBBA.

Prior to joining Sidley, Hagai was the Tax Director at GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS). 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 the business’ debt and equity portfolio of US and foreign wind and solar projects.