Infocast Panel: Tax Issues in Battery Storage and Solar+Storage Transactions

Webinar | February.04.2019 | 10am - 11am (Pacific Standard Time)

Online Participation

Join partners Rohit Sachdev, Michael Masri and Wolf Pohl as they participate in a panel hosted by Infocast, Inc.: “Tax Issues in Battery Storage and Solar+Storage Transactions” on Monday, February 4^th at 10:00 am PST. The event is scheduled in conjunction with Infocast’s Storage Week in San Francisco, which Orrick is proudly sponsoring. Rohit will moderate the panel, which also includes Shirley Chin, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Tax for Sunrun Inc. Projects involving battery storage—in particular solar generation projects combined with batteries—are among the hottest areas of U.S. renewables development in 2018 and 2019. The webinar will focus on the key tax issues critical to project development and the ability to obtain and maintain Investment Tax Credits (ITC) for combined solar+storage projects

Register to attend this spirited webinar as the panel addresses key considerations driving best practices for structuring projects and tailoring PPA provisions to ensure initial ITC eligibility and minimize ITC recapture.

Wolfram Pohl Partner, Tax

San Francisco

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Finance Sector
Energy & Infrastructure Sector
Tax

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Wolfram Pohl Partner

San Francisco

Wolf represents many of the country’s most prominent developers and financing parties in structuring transactions to take advantage of tax credits, Treasury cash grants, depreciation benefits, and other available tax benefits. He has represented developers and tax equity investors in financings of both wind and solar projects, as well as on tax planning for energy storage, carbon capture, and carbon sequestration projects.

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Rohit Sachdev Partner, Energy, Infrastructure

San Francisco

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Energy & Infrastructure Sector
Energy
Infrastructure
Renewable Energy
Wind Energy
Energy Storage
Mergers & Acquisitions

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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.