TARA HIGGINS is a co-leader of Sidley’s global Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She focuses her practice on domestic and cross border energy, transportation and infrastructure transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investor arrangements, financings and restructurings of all types, and project development. She has particular experience in the renewable energy and sustainability space.
Tara represents private equity and strategic investors, developers and lenders, and other financiers. She has experience with conventional power, hydroelectric, solar, wind, battery and storage, biomass and other alternative energy projects, midstream gas gathering and processing, interstate gas pipelines and gas storage facilities, water and waste treatment plants, industrial plants, and infrastructure and transportation projects.
Tara has been consistently recognized by several publications, including Chambers USA in Band 1 for her work in Nationwide Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional (2020–2024) and Nationwide Projects (2010–2024), Chambers Global for Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional (USA, 2022–2025) and Projects (USA, 2011–2025). Clients in the 2025 edition of Chambers Global praised Tara for being a “fantastic lawyer” and that she is “extremely intelligent and big picture focused.” Tara was shortlisted for the “Energy, Natural Resources & Mining Lawyer of the Year” award by IFLR’s Women in Business Law Americas Awards (2023), which celebrates women lawyers who have developed strong and innovative practices. She also was named by The American Lawyer as one of their “Northeast Trailblazers” (2022), A Word About Wind’s “Legal Power List” (2022), and Law360 as an Energy “MVP” (2021, 2024).
Prior to joining Sidley, Tara was a partner and co-head of the power practice at another global law firm.