Amy Padgett Partner, Energy & Infrastructure, Mergers & Acquisitions
Washington, D.C.
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Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Power Financing
- Renewable Energy
Amy Padgett Partner
Washington, D.C.
She represents leading sponsors, developers, investors and electric utilities in cash equity and tax equity financings, joint ventures, M&A, private placements and a broad range of corporate matters for renewables projects across the United States and Canada.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Energy
- Renewable Energy
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
- Power
Jeff Quinn-Cane Partner
Seattle
With an emphasis on project development and tax-driven finance, Jeff advises developers, sponsors, lenders, investors and utilities across the renewable energy spectrum. He has extensive experience guiding clients on complex tax equity transactions to finance and develop utility-scale solar and wind, distributed solar, geothermal, fuel cell, biomass and other projects that promote a low carbon energy transition.
Previously, Jeff spent four years working as a litigation consultant, an experience that equipped him with a deep understanding of the factors that lead to litigation and effective ways to prevent it.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Wind Energy
- Energy Storage
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Rohit Sachdev Partner
San Francisco
Rohit has extensive experience in the solar, wind, energy storage, and biofuel sectors, and has advised on numerous award-winning transactions. He is recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in the Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy category. Rohit’s clients describe him as “excellent,” “knowledgeable,” “timely in his work,” “commercially-oriented,” “very plugged into the market” with a “great demeanor."
In recent years, Rohit's practice has focused particularly on project development and project M&A transactions. He has successfully negotiated many GWs of "physical" and "virtual" PPAs and tolling agreements, as well as a variety of construction, supply and other development arrangements. Rohit has also represented clients on the purchase and sale of renewables projects in various U.S. jurisdictions, as well as joint venture and other project asset arrangements. He has particularly focused on the development, financing and sale of domestic and international energy storage projects, including stand-alone, hybrid, front-of-meter and behind-the-meter projects.
Rohit co-leads Orrick’s South Asian Inclusion Network and served as a Fellow for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.
He started his legal career at an international law firm in New York, where he focused on project development and project finance transactions across the globe. Prior to law and business schools, Rohit was an investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse in San Francisco where he provided M&A and financial advisory services to technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Wind Energy
- Solar Energy
- Power
- Public Power Financing
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- UK
Ravinder Sandhu Partner
London
Ravinder represents a wide range of clients in connection with large scale renewable (including onshore/offshore wind, solar and biomass) M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and regulatory matters, as well as in respect of infrastructure and conventional energy assets. She is widely recognised as a leader in wind energy.
Ravinder is a member of Orrick’s Finance and Audit Committee, providing oversight of its financial reporting and audit process, its internal controls, and global compliance with laws and regulation.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Kristin Seeger Partner
San Francisco
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.
Practice:
- Banking & Finance
- Renewable Energy
- Energy
- Offshore Wind
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
- Derivatives
- Power
- Hydrogen
- Infrastructure
Oliver Sikora Senior Associate
London
Oliver works primarily on domestic and cross-border transactions in the renewable energy space, and also has experience advising on deals in the transport sector.
Adam Smith Partner, Energy & Infrastructure, Renewable Energy
London; Singapore
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Infrastructure
- Data Centers
- Oil & Gas
- Banking & Finance
- Structured Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Adam Smith Partner
London; Singapore
Adam also has a complementary breadth of experience from a variety of financing, M&A, capital markets and general corporate matters in numerous sectors.
"Adam's style is practical. He is able to explain complex legal matters so that we can make informed decisions." - Chambers
"Adam Smith is very capable and able to adapt to his client's needs." - Chambers
"Adam Smith is practical and easy to work with – he is able to explain legal concepts and how to appropriately allocate risks between parties and has good legal market knowledge." - Legal 500 UK
"We are very satisfied and impressed by the work performed by Adam Smith." - Legal 500 UK
"Adam Smith is very responsive and has excellent product expertise." - Legal 500 UK
"Adam Smith is a partner with the expertise to interpret and resolve disputes among counterparties." - Legal 500 UK
“Very pleased to have worked with Adam and the Orrick team on this unique and highly innovative debt product. The team demonstrated a combination of strong technical skills alongside excellent sector specific knowledge.” - Client testimonial
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Renewable Energy
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
- Power
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Banking & Finance
- Public Power Financing
- Infrastructure
- UK
- Offshore Wind
Evan Stergoulis Partner
London
Evan advises lenders, ECAs, institutional investors, renewable energy companies, investment firms and pension funds on financings, M&A, joint ventures and other strategic combinations. He brings considerable experience in wide range of renewable energy portfolio deals, as well as gas and power transmission and distribution projects and he has a market-leading offshore wind practice.
Chambers Global 2020 notes that clients say Evan is a “leading figure who has secured incredible and loyal clients because he does an excellent job.” He has also been named to The Lawyer’s Hot 100. and named to A Word About Wind's Top 100 Legal Power List.
Practice:
- Renewable Energy
- Energy
- Power
- Oil & Gas
- Infrastructure
- Energy & Infrastructure
Michael Tardif Partner
Singapore
Michael’s practice services a broad range of industry sectors, including conventional power, renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric), infrastructure, oil & gas and mining across Asia, Australia and the US. His project finance experience covers the complete toolkit of complex transactions from corporate and acquisition financing, structured/leveraged finance transactions and derivatives, including hedging arrangements.
Michael has notable experience in transactions involving multilateral lenders and export-credit agencies which are often crucial supporters of project financings in developing countries in the region.
Ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers Asia Pacific guide for Indonesia Projects & Energy lawyer for seven years in a row, Michael is also recognized as a “Leading Individual” by Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Power
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Oil & Gas
- Latin America
Dahl Thompson Partner
Houston
Dahl represents project sponsors/developers, private equity investors, utilities and strategic investors in all stages of structuring, financing, acquiring and disposing of energy projects and companies, including the negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale, joint development, shareholder, partnership and LLC operating, debt and equity financing, security and credit agreements. Over the last decade, Dahl has successfully closed transactions relating to projects totaling many thousands of megawatts and many billions of dollars in asset value.
Dahl is described by Chambers USA as having “excellent industry knowledge."
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Oil & Gas
- Infrastructure
Lisa Tonery Partner
New York
At the forefront of her field, Lisa helped a client obtain the first authorization from the DOE to export domestic natural gas as LNG to all trading partners, and represented the first bi-directional LNG terminals proposed in the United States in proceedings before FERC.
Lisa has been recognized both nationally and globally as a leading practitioner by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, and The Legal 500 for more than a decade.
“Lisa Tonery comes highly recommended for her considerable expertise in representing major clients in high-value LNG proceedings . . . Sources say: ‘She's an expert . . . she really understands the critical issues.’” (Chambers Global)
"Client-focused, business-minded and dogged in the pursuit of her clients' interests. Her depth of knowledge is best-in-class. She has extensive relationships with FERC at all levels and is very pleasant to work with." (Chambers USA)
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Renewable Energy
- Infrastructure
- Energy
- Japan
Minako Wakabayashi Partner
Tokyo
Minako has significant experience advising international and domestic sponsors and developers on complex and innovative projects. She was called upon by the Japanese government in structuring the renewable Feed-in-Tariff scheme in Japan and prepared the government’s model contracts for specific contracts (power purchase contract/interconnection contract), which are a key component of the Feed-in-Tariff scheme in Japan. Recently, she has also been handling numerous corporate PPA projects.
She was appointed as Auditor of the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA) in May 2022.
Minako practiced at Orrick’s New York office in 2004-2005. She also worked as a public prosecutor in Japan for four years and served as a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Supervising Committee for Public Bidding (Tokyo-to Nyusatsu Kanshi Iinkai) for eight years. She is serving as Audit of Veritas In Silico Inc since March 2022.