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Hagai Zaifman

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:30 +0000

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, 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 infrastructure and renewable energy 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 IRC Section 45 production tax credits (PTC), IRC Section 48 investment tax credits (ITC), IRC Section 45Q carbon capture and sequestration tax credits, IRC section 45V clean hydrogen tax credits, and other renewable energy tax incentives and credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Jared M. Fishman

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000

Jared Fishman is a partner in the Firm’s Financial Services and Capital Markets Groups. He advises clients across the banking, broker-dealer and trading platforms, asset and wealth management, and fintech and payments industries on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, minority and control investments, joint ventures and partnerships, and capital markets transactions. He also regularly counsels clients on the full scope of bank regulatory matters, including chartering and licensing initiatives, regulatory approvals in connection with transactions, and ongoing compliance and supervisory matters, as well as public company advice, including on shareholder activism, corporate governance, disclosure, and general corporate matters. He also serves as a co-head of the Firm’s Cybersecurity practice and a coordinator for the securities and technology M&A practices.

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Justin J. DeCamp

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000

Justin J. DeCamp is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. He maintains a wide-ranging practice with a significant focus on finance, bankruptcy, and restructuring-related matters. He has represented financial industry and corporate clients in a broad range of high-stakes litigation in federal district, appellate, bankruptcy, and state courts, including in a wide range of debtor-creditor, contractual, merger, employment, and other complex business and financial disputes, mass tort litigation, securities litigation, and avoidance actions, as well as in numerous regulatory and enforcement proceedings and arbitrations.

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Kelann Stirling

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:17 +0000

Head of Project Finance & Development and a partner in the Finance and Infrastructure Groups, Kelann Stirling has spent over 20 years advising clients on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects within and outside of the United States. She advises clients on optimal and holistic financing solutions, including senior secured project financings, holdco loans, backleverage financings and development capital and 4(a)(2) private placements, as well as multi-source financings for large scale infrastructure projects. She has significant experience in energy and infrastructure restructurings and acquisition financings and has advised clients on numerous projects covering a wide range of asset classes, including conventional power, solar, wind and battery storage, carbon capture and sequestration, liquefied natural gas (LNG), midstream gas gathering and processing facilities, energy transition technologies and digital infrastructure.

Kelann has been recognized for her project finance work by both Chambers USA and Chambers Global (2021-2026), and sources note that “Kelann possesses an acute legal mind, analyzes the most complex issues in full depth and delivers practical advice.” “She is very creative, very hard-working and up to speed on the market” (Chambers USA). She was also listed as a key lawyer for Project Finance by Legal 500 in 2025 and named a “Rising Star Partner” in Project Finance by IFLR1000 in 2021 and by Law360 in 2019.

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Richard Jacobsen

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:01 +0000

Richard Jacobsen serves as Lead Partner for Orrick’s 450-lawyer global Litigation practice, leader of Orrick’s Financial Services Litigation team and member of the firm’s 11-member Board of Directors.

The world’s largest financial institutions and other corporate leaders call on Rich to first chair their most complex, high-value litigation. For over two decades, he has successfully defended clients against billions of dollars of claims, securing some of the most favorable settlements and trial and appellate victories that have set precedents and significantly impacted the finance industry and reduced his clients’ exposure. He is among the youngest partners to be named a New York Law Journal Distinguished Leader on the basis of this record. He leads a team that has been named twice as Law360 Banking Group of the Year (2022 & 2025) in recognition of their courtroom results.

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Carole G. Miller

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:50 +0000

Carole is a nationally recognized employment defense litigator and firm leader with a distinguished career spanning more than three decades. As Co-Chair of Maynard Nexsen’s Financial Services practice, she directs the employment work for the firm’s financial services clients and has earned a reputation as the go-to litigator for defending high-stakes employment disputes involving major financial institutions.

Carole represents a premier clientele that includes Fortune 500 banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, and other leading financial services companies in employment-related disputes before courts, FINRA, and other arbitration forums across more than 35 states. Clients turn to Carole for her proven track record of success defending these claims and her deep understanding of the financial services industry’s unique regulatory landscape—a combination of litigation skill and industry insight that makes her a trusted advisor to institutions navigating complex employment matters.

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Daniel D. Bartfeld

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:49 +0000

Dan Bartfeld is a partner in the New York office of Milbank LLP and is the Chair of the firm’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group (which has over 190 dedicated energy/infrastructure attorneys) and is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee. Mr. Bartfeld also serves as the co-chair of the firm’s Digital Infrastructure Practice Group.

Mr. Bartfeld represents financial sponsors/portfolio companies, financial institutions, multinational companies and developers in their most important transactions, including in a wide range of digital (data centers, GPUs, fiber and associated powered land), power (renewable/conventional), critical minerals/supply chain, transportation infrastructure/logistics, LNG/midstream/shipping and energy-related matters in the US and globally.

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Manny Mevs

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:36 +0000

In Manny’s practice, he has represented different sides of both public and private transactions, depending on the project. Thus, his clients may be an issuer or an underwriter, a lender or a borrower. He also has experience with prime and sub-prime automobile loans and leases. But whichever side of the deal he is on, his goal is always to help his client get a positive outcome.

In addition, Manny has helped clients with dealer floorplan receivable securitizations and warehouses, secured warehouse lending facilities as well as revolving credit facilities and structured term loans.

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Kevin Manz

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:36 +0000

Kevin Manz is a partner in the Finance and Restructuring practice group resident in the firm’s New York office.

Kevin represents public and private companies in a variety of capital markets and corporate matters spanning a broad range of industries. He has extensive experience advising clients on public and private offerings of both equity and debt securities, including IPOs, secondary offerings, liability management transactions and securities issued in connection with mergers and acquisitions. In particular, Kevin is an industry leader with respect to special purpose acquisition companies and related financing and business combination (deSPAC) transactions.

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Jonathan M.A. Melmed

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:36 +0000

Jonathan Melmed is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Corporate Department as well as its Global Private Equity and M&A practice with over 25 years of experience. Jonathan represents private equity funds, pension plans, sovereigns, family offices, hedge funds, corporate clients and investment banks re U.S. and international M&A, private equity and complex corporate transactions. Jonathan has extensive M&A and PE experience across many sectors, including in the energy, power, infrastructure, financial services, media, telecommunications, fiber, telecom, technology, life sciences, health care, pharma, and real estate/REIT sectors. Jonathan is also the Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Energy Power & Infrastructure practice, leads our Canada practice and co-leads our Energy Transition practice. Jonathan has one of the most active renewable energy/clean tech and digital infra Private Equity and M&A practices in the world. Jonathan has served on the firm’s policy/management committee.

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