Paul Tanaka

Paul leads Kirkland’s Global Environmental Practice, which advises some of the world’s most sophisticated and dynamic clients on complex and evolving environmental legal issues. Paul’s clients rely on him to identify and strategically manage environmental regulatory compliance and other environmental liabilities. He is a big-picture thinker and creative problem solver that clients count on to be both commercial and practical, and to create bespoke and efficient solutions for everything from environmental crises to more routine matters of compliance and governance and all aspects of transactions. His experience includes work on high-profile energy and infrastructure projects and transactions, including traditional energy as well as energy transition-focused transactions and projects, such as solar, energy storage, wind, geothermal, energy efficiency, and carbon capture, utilization and sequestration.