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Tara A Higgins

Tara A Higgins

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Sidley Austin LLP
 Sidley Austin LLP

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional

USA

5 years ranked

Projects

USA

16 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

TARA HIGGINS is a co-leader of Sidley’s global Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She focuses her practice on domestic and cross border energy, transportation and infrastructure transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investor arrangements, financings and restructurings of all types, and project development. She has particular experience in the renewable energy and sustainability space.

Tara represents private equity and strategic investors, developers and lenders, and other financiers. She has experience with conventional power, hydroelectric, solar, wind, battery and storage, biomass and other alternative energy projects, midstream gas gathering and processing, interstate gas pipelines and gas storage facilities, water and waste treatment plants, industrial plants, and infrastructure and transportation projects.

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Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional - USA

Band 1
Individual Editorial
Tara Higgins has an impressive breadth of expertise across the renewables sector, where she offers expert representation in the development and financing of single projects and portfolios. She also advises on the acquisition and sale of both assets and project companies.
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Projects - USA

Band 2
Individual Editorial
Tara Higgins has an impressive breadth of expertise across the renewables sector, where she offers expert representation in the development and financing of single projects and portfolios. She also advises on the acquisition and sale of both assets and project companies.
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Strengths

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  • Tara Higgins is extraordinarily talented. She is practical, good-humored and works well with counsel on the other side to find reasonable solutions on complicated deals.

    Projects: Power & Renewables: TransactionalChambers Global Guide

  • Tara is an amazing lawyer with wide expertise in the energy space. She is a go-to resource for technical legal, pragmatic and strategic advice. 

    Projects: Power & Renewables: TransactionalChambers Global Guide

  • Tara is paramount in customer service. She is wonderful at issue spotting and thinking big picture things. She is a commercial lawyer who tries to get parties to a solution.

    Projects: Power & Renewables: TransactionalChambers Global Guide

  • Tara is a superb finance professional. She is also keenly attuned to commercial dynamics and is super efficient in deal execution.

    Projects: Power & Renewables: TransactionalChambers Global Guide

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