Sidley represented Brookfield Renewable, one of the world’s largest publicly traded, pure-play renewable power platforms, in its purchase of Urban Grid, one of the largest greenfield solar and battery storage project developers in the United States. Urban Grid is a utility scale renewable energy developer with over a decade of expertise in taking solar and energy storage projects through the full development process and is actively developing a growing portfolio of over 12.7GWDC solar PV and 3.7GWAC of co-located/stand-alone energy storage, throughout 12 states in support of America’s transition to clean, sustainable power.
The Sidley team was led by Karen Dewis (M&A) with support from Sarah Tucker (Energy), Mario Samos (Energy), and Caroline Abbott (Energy). The team also includes Hagai Zaifman (Tax); Cathryn Le Regulski (Labor & Employment); Christian Pilhofer and Sarah Recktenwald (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Elizabeth McCloy and Joy Kerr (Real Estate); Allison Satyr and Christian Wyse (Global Finance); Heather Palmer and Allen Braddock (Environmental); Jimmie Zhang, Karl Pielmeier, Aaron King, and Eusebius Luk (Energy); Lauren Grau (Technology and IP Transactions); and Andrew Shoyer (Trade).