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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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Eli M. Katz

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:35 +0000

Eli Katz is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. He serves as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure Industry Group and is a member of the firm’s Tax Department and Project Development & Finance Practice. Over the past two decades, Eli has advised clients on some of the most notable transactions closed in the power and renewable energy sector. His clients include leading independent power producers, large financial institutions, and private equity, infrastructure, pension, and sovereign wealth funds.

He primarily handles energy tax incentives, project development and financing, joint venture arrangements, capital raising and deployment structures, mergers and acquisitions, and leasing transactions both internationally and in the United States.

Eli is ranked by Chambers Global for Projects in Renewables & Alternative Energy – USA and Chambers USA for Nationwide Projects in Renewables & Alternative Energy. He has also repeatedly been recognized by Legal 500 US for his work in Project Finance and Tax.

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Philip Rogers

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:57 +0000

Philip Rogers has practiced international tax law since 1983.

Philip concentrates his practice in international tax, including legal and operational structuring, general international tax planning matters, global transfer pricing strategy and documentation, cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, and international tax controversy. He has led dozens of international structuring projects for companies across a wide spectrum of industries and jurisdictions, and his clients include leaders in the financial, high technology and consumer products industries.

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Frank Ikonero Mugabi

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:57 +0000

Frank Mugabi is a partner in DLA Piper’s Tax Department and is based in New York. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate taxation, both public and private-equity sponsored, including corporate mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as corporate separations, reorganizations and workouts. Frank’s corporate taxation experience has ranged from structuring and negotiating complex transactions, to internal pre-deal restructuring and planning in connection with the preservation and use of tax attributes. Additionally, Frank advises on a wide range of international tax matters for clients in various industries, including repatriation planning, foreign tax credit planning, and Pillar 2 planning.

Frank is recognized by Chambers USA for his technical knowledge in a wide range of areas of the tax law. Similarly, Frank is recognized by Legal 500 USA for his experience in international tax matters and non-contentious tax matters.

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Maruti R. Narayan

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:56 +0000

Maruti Narayan advises US and foreign-based multinationals on a broad range of international tax matters, including supply chain structuring, IP migration, US income tax treaties and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. In addition to advising multinationals, Maruti has advised extensively on legislative drafting, both with respect to United States law as well as for non-US governments.

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Craig R. Springfield

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:41 +0000

Craig Springfield has been a partner with Davis & Harman LLP since 1998. His federal tax advisory practice focuses on the taxation of life insurance, annuities, long-term care insurance, accelerated death benefits, health insurance and other insurance products. Craig frequently represents insurance companies to obtain private letter rulings and other forms of guidance from the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury. He also has extensive experience working with clients to obtain closing agreements that address various compliance issues, including under sections 7702 and 7702A of the Code and for failures to satisfy withholding and reporting obligations. Craig has worked on various legislative matters, e.g., the tax treatment of long-term care insurance combination products and the Medicaid rules governing qualified state long-term care insurance partnerships.

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Jasper L. (Jack) Cummings, Jr

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:28 +0000

Jack Cummings is counsel in Alston & Bird’s Federal Tax Group in Raleigh and Washington, D.C. He served as IRS associate chief counsel (corporate) and chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation. His books include The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (with Robert Hanson); The Supreme Court’s Federal Tax Jurisprudence, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, second edition in 2016; and The Supreme Court, Federal Taxation and the Constitution, published by the American Bar Association in 2013. In addition, he regularly authors a column in Tax Notes (“What Were They Thinking?”). During 2018 and 2019, Jack published 12 in-depth articles in Tax Notes explaining all the major international provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. He is currently revising the BNA Portfolio on Lobbying and Political Expenditures. Jack is a graduate of Duke University, summa cum laude, Yale Law School, and the Graduate Tax Program of NYU Law School. He has also successfully argued a state tax case in the U.S. Supreme Court, Fulton Corp. v. Faulkner, 516 U.S. 325 (1996). Chambers USA recognized him as a senior statesperson in Tax Law in North Carolina. In 2019, The Best Lawyers in America® recognized Jack as the “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation and Controversy – Tax, in addition to being annually recognized in Tax Law.

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Colin W. Fraser

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:05 +0000

Colin Fraser is a commercial litigator with experience in all phases of litigation in federal and state courts, and in arbitration and mediation, with a principal focus on complex matters. He is experienced in managing cases at the trial court level, including all aspects of discovery, motion practice, and trial. He also has experience prosecuting appeals before the Ninth Circuit and the California Court of Appeal. Colin also represents clients before legislative and regulatory bodies at the local and state levels.

Colin has handled cases with claims exceeding several billion dollars in potential liability and has experience in a broad range of areas affecting business clients, including contract law, intellectual property litigation, anti-trust, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), false advertising, unfair competition, real estate disputes, and shareholder disputes.

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Antonio Longo

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:30 +0000

Antonio is a Partner in the tax department and has extensive experience in tax law, with a focus on international, corporate, personal, and employment taxation, as well as in the resolution of tax disputes. Antonio has expertise in audit, tax compliance activities, and tax risk management systems. He also provides assistance in complex cases of wealth and succession planning.

Antonio assists Italian and multinational companies operating in various sectors, including insurance, pharmaceutical, industrial, technological, food, and retail. He is the main tax contact in the firm’s insurance team and support clients on management incentive plans and strategies related to the international mobility of workers.

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P. Prestin Weidner

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:25 +0000

Prestin Weidner’s practice primarily involves federal and state tax structuring, planning and advice for business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, investment transactions, real estate transactions, recapitalizations, the formation of partnerships, joint ventures and other business entities, employment agreements and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, and equity and equity-based compensation plans. He also advises fund sponsors and investors on fund formations and investments, including co-investments. Prestin also engages in general business and corporate matters, including drafting and negotiating agreements for investment and acquisition transactions, entity formations, employment agreements, and equity incentive and other compensation plans.

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