Job Details

Overview

Whistler Partners is partnering with a nationally recognized AmLaw firm seeking a Senior Associate or Counsel (6+ years) to join its Energy Tax practice. San Francisco is the preferred location, though the firm will also consider candidates in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, or Seattle.

This role sits within the firm's energy and climate solutions group, a large industry-focused team advising leading independent power producers, developers, and emerging energy technology companies. The group works across sectors including renewable power, energy storage, carbon capture, geothermal, advanced manufacturing, nuclear, and EV infrastructure.

Why this role?

The selected candidate will work directly with the leader of the firm's energy tax team, providing substantial opportunities for client contact and transaction management. The role also involves close collaboration with lawyers across the firm's project finance platform, including corporate, debt, and securitization teams.

The practice advises on some of the most sophisticated tax equity structures supporting the energy transition, with a steady pipeline of renewable energy and emerging infrastructure transactions.

This is an excellent opportunity for a tax lawyer looking to deepen their experience in complex tax equity and energy transition transactions, while working within a collaborative and industry-leading platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on tax equity partnership transactions supporting renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
• Structure and execute inverted lease and sale-leaseback transactions.
• Handle equipment safe harbor transactions and tax credit transfer transactions.
• Provide counsel on substantive Federal tax credit matters, including related opinion practice.
• Work closely with project developers, sponsors, investors, and financial institutions on complex transactions.
• Collaborate with project finance lawyers across corporate, debt, and securitization teams on multidisciplinary matters.

Top Requirements

• 6+ years of tax equity transactional experience at a national law firm.
• Experience handling tax equity partnership structures, inverted leases, and sale-leaseback transactions.
• Experience advising on Federal tax credit matters and related opinion practice.
• Transactional experience within renewable energy, energy infrastructure, or project finance.

Preferred

• Experience in sectors such as wind, solar, battery storage, geothermal, nuclear, advanced manufacturing, and EV charging.
• Experience representing project developers and sponsors, though investor-side lawyers interested in transitioning to sponsor-side work are encouraged to apply.

TL;DR

Senior Energy Tax Associate / Counsel role (6+ years) advising on sophisticated tax equity transactions across renewable energy and energy transition projects, with strong client exposure and collaboration within a leading project finance platform.

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