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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Solar Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Power
  • Responsible Business

Lana Le Hir パートナー

オレンジ・カウンティ

She focuses on innovating creative solutions for all types of utility scale renewable power purchase agreements and carbon offset and removal agreements. This work includes virtual, physical, master-confirm portfolios, block delivery, aggregation, 24/7 hourly delivery, load following, battery storage, REC agreements, on-site solar, and green tariff direct agreements. Lana leverages her deep sell-side experience as Senior Counsel to one of the largest renewable energy developers in the world, with her extensive corporate buy-side knowledge, and background in electrical engineering, to advise effectively and close deals swiftly. Lana and her team at Orrick are at the forefront of corporate renewable energy procurement and are setting the industry standards for implementation of energy justice and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) considerations.

Prior to joining Orrick, Lana was a Senior Associate at an international law firm where she managed portfolio growth for leading corporate purchasers and developers representing over 3.5 GWs of renewable transactions. She also served as Senior Counsel to Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, for 8 years, where she was responsible for its entire US portfolio of power purchase agreements (7.5 GWs). Before her legal career, Lana managed a product engineering team in the development of a new cutting-edge wireless technology for consumer electronics.

Practice:

  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Responsible Business
  • Nuclear

Alfred Weightman パートナー

ロンドン

Alfred represents major corporate purchasers and developers in negotiating renewable energy PPAs. His advice helps buy-side clients to reduce their energy costs and meet their clean energy targets. He also advises developers in securing long-term project revenues by structuring and negotiating bankable PPAs. His experience covers all major European jurisdictions, including Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and the UK.

Alfred’s experience also extends to grid connection arrangements, energy storage, energy regulation and other energy transition matters.

Prior to joining Orrick, Alfred was a Senior Legal Director at a leading solar developer and, before that, was the EMEA Region Lead for Energy at Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest buyer of renewable energy. He also spent nearly a decade at an international law firm, assisting clients in meeting their net-zero climate targets.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets
  • Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)

Yael Perl パートナー

シリコン・バレー

Yael has extensive experience with advising founders, investors and boards of tech and life sciences companies at all stages and advises on cutting edge deals and complex transactions, with a focus on venture capital financings, debt financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. She practices across a variety of industries, including software and technology, energy, gaming, healthcare and life sciences. Yael’s practice also includes advising venture capital firms and strategic corporate investors in their investments into technology and life sciences companies.

Yael’s broad-based domestic and international experience also includes advising Israeli venture capital funds, high-tech firms and startups while practicing at some of the top-rated firms in Tel Aviv.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Power
  • Data Centers
  • Responsible Business

Teresa Hill パートナー

シアトル

Focused on helping public and private companies in achieving their global “net zero” carbon commitments, Teresa has a particular emphasis on negotiating renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs). She has partnered with some of the largest corporate buyers of renewable energy, working to expand the global footprint of their energy portfolios in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Teresa has extensive experience with wind, solar and storage projects and, specifically, the negotiation of development-related agreements, including virtually and physically settled renewable power purchase agreements.

Prior to joining Orrick, Teresa was a partner in the energy and infrastructure group of a global law firm and in the environment, land use and natural resources and renewable energy groups of a Portland-based law firm. She also clerked for Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout, the first woman appointed to the Idaho Supreme Court.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Kristin Seeger パートナー

サンフランシスコ

Her experience spans projects across the United States and Canada and includes award-winning transactions. She is recognized nationally as Chambers USA Band 2 for Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional (2025) and as a Leading Lawyer: Energy-Renewable/Alternative Power by Legal 500. Clients describe her main qualities as "responsiveness, thoroughness and her understanding of the market" and as "bringing such experience to deals, it's very hard to fault her on anything." She "knows where the market is and makes strong deal points."

Kristin is a key member of Orrick's energy transition practice, which was recognized as Band 1 in Energy Transition by Chambers USA (2025). She also serves on Orrick's Board.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Structured Finance

Hugues Martin-Sisteron パートナー

パリ

Hugues advises on the development and financing of international projects, with a particular focus on Africa and Europe. He has extensive experience advising sponsors (investors and industrialists), developers, and lenders (export credit agencies, commercial lenders, and development banks), particularly in the energy, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

Hugues regularly works on transactions in Africa. Through his involvement in numerous large-scale projects, he has acquired in-depth expertise in various national and regional legal systems and regimes, particularly those of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), and the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA).

Hugues is also the author of numerous legal articles published in renowned law journals such as Lexis Nexis (France and Morocco), the Revue de droit bancaire et financier, the Revue Banque, and the Revue Contrats et Marchés Publics. In addition, he co-edits the annual editions of Lamy Droit du Financement and L’Essentiel Droits Africains des Affaires (Lextenso). He has also published the first book devoted to Islamic project financing.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Responsible Business
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Renewable Energy
  • ラテン・アメリカ
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Fintech

Giji John パートナー

Houston; Singapore

He has extensive experience representing project sponsors through development (including through the negotiation and drafting of power purchase agreements and other long-term offtake agreements, physical and financial swaps, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, management services agreements and site services agreements), acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings. His representation has included transactions involving LNG facilities, methanol facilities, petrochemical refineries, carbon capture and sequestration facilities, natural gas processing and storage facilities, natural gas and CO2 pipelines, wind energy, solar energy, natural gas-fired peaking and combined-cycle power plants, thermal and battery energy storage, transportation, aviation and ports.

His prior experiences include a two year secondment to International Finance Corporation’s Office of General Counsel where he worked on multi-currency corporate financings, project financings and equity investments in infrastructure projects in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Turkey.

Giji is currently ranked as a Projects Leading Lawyer in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, and has been recognized for excellence by numerous leading industry and legal publications, including being named one of 34 "Groundbreaking lawyers" by Public Utilities Fortnightly.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Energy Innovation
  • Power
  • Private Equity

Anna Howell パートナー

ロンドン

Anna’s experience spans M&A, project development and financing, joint ventures, market entry and expansion, and restructurings in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. She offers clients a comprehensive understanding of the entire energy value chain – from upstream concessions and transportation arrangements to downstream commodity sales and trading. Anna is known for guiding clients through their most challenging and transformative matters, driving results in both mature and emerging markets.

Highly regarded in the market, Anna holds a Band 1 ranking from Chambers Global and Chambers UK in Oil & Gas. Clients praise her as “one of the standout energy lawyers both for M&A and oil and gas work,” noting her intelligent and commercial approach to negotiations and consistent, client-focused communication.

Prior to joining Orrick, Anna spent over 11 years practising in Asia and has worked in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing.

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Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Energy

Zac Padgett パートナー

Austin

Zac advises clients on:

  • growth equity transactions
  • buyout acquisitions and mergers
  • venture capital investments
  • exit transactions
  • take-private deals
  • management buyouts
  • joint ventures
  • private placements
  • debt-like preferred equity and project finance investments

As co-lead of the firm’s Energy Tech Team, Zac focuses on supporting companies and investors developing technologies like hyperscale data centers, alternative fuels, carbon capture, eVTOL aircraft, agtech and digital infrastructure. Zac is a key member of Orrick's energy transition practice, which was recognized as Band 1 in Energy Transition by Chambers USA (2023).

Zac is passionate about legal tech and implementing AI tools to enhance legal services. He helps lead the firm’s MAPE 2.0 project team, a platform that transforms M&A execution, which won the Financial Times' Reinventing the Legal Practice category.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Innovation
  • Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Responsible Business

Lauren Buehler シニア・カウンセル

Washington DC

Lauren has extensive experience advising clients on compliance with environmental and natural resources laws, including:

  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act;
  • National Environmental Policy Act;
  • Endangered Species Act and other wildlife laws;
  • National Historic Preservation Act and tribal issues;
  • Clean Water Act;
  • Clean Air Act; and
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

She represents clients in matters before federal, state and local agencies, including the U.S. EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public utilities commissions, state natural resources and environmental agencies and other resource protection authorities. She has advised clients on wind and transmission projects in areas of significant tribal interest, facilitating constructive tribal engagement and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Her work includes transactions, project development and permitting, litigation, agency proceedings and enforcement actions. She has advised on environmental and land use matters for projects representing tens of thousands of megawatts of capacity and billions in investment, including a new $1.7 billion 550-mile double circuit transmission line spanning 12 counties.

Prior to Orrick, she was Assistant General Counsel at Xcel Energy, serving as lead environmental counsel for their solar, wind, energy storage, electric generation and transmission projects; an enforcement attorney at the EPA; and an advisor to an independent oil and gas company on exploration, production and development. At the EPA, she enforced environmental laws and regulations and ensured state hazardous waste programs met federal requirements.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • 石油とガス
  • Renewable Energy
  • Data Centers
  • Finance

Adam Moncrieff パートナー

Singapore

His deep project finance experience ranges from renewable energy projects to power, oil and gas, LNG, petrochemicals, infrastructure, telecommunications, and water projects in Asia-Pacific, Australia, the Middle East, Russia, South America and in numerous countries throughout Africa.

Adam has an extensive track record in Southeast Asia and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the market. Chambers Asia Pacific 2024 ranks him as a Band 1 lawyer for Projects, Infrastructure & Energy for Vietnam, and clients comment that “Adam delivered exceptional client service, demonstrating a deep commitment to understanding and addressing our needs with responsiveness and attention to detail.”

Adam relocated to Singapore in 2025 after spending nearly three decades working in key energy and infrastructure hubs in Asia, including Tokyo, Hong Kong and Vietnam.