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Noah Pollak is a partner in Willkie’s Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on the project financing and development of energy and infrastructure projects. He is based in the Firm’s Washington office.

With nearly 20 years of energy industry experience, Noah focuses his multidisciplinary practice on project financing transactions in the power, renewable energy and datacenter/digital infrastructure sectors.

Noah represents clients across the energy industry on a range of domestic and international solar, wind, battery storage, hydrogen, and natural gas projects, including data centers and transmission infrastructure. He regularly advises lenders, developers, sponsors, and private equity investors on all aspects of these transactions, including debt financings, tax equity investments, joint ventures, acquisitions, and project documents.
 

Experience

  • Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2019
  • Speaker, “Top 3 Concerns for Tax Credit Buyers: Risk, Risk, and Risk,” LevelTen Energy, November 4, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Putting Together Tax Credit Deals for New Technologies and Manufacturing,” Infocast Tax Credits & Transferability 2024 conference, September 26, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Tax Equity: Direct Investors,” Novogradac 2023 Fall Renewable Energy and Environmental Tax Credits Conference, November 2, 2023.
  • Speaker, “Project Finance, Tax Credits and Sponsor Equity – Understanding the Ecosystem,” Infocast Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit, March 12, 2023.
  • Moderator, “Crypto – Opportunities for Generators,” Global Energy and Finance Conference, June 17, 2022.
  • Moderator, “Power Markets Outlook: Valuation, Price Curves and Merchant Tails,” Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit, March 7, 2022.
     
  • 157 million construction-to-term loan facility, a $170 million tax equity bridge loan, and a $65 million letter of credit facility.
  • Represented the lenders in the $125 million mezzanine financing of portfolio of operating, construction and development-stage renewable energy projects, including 820 MW of solar, 465 MW of wind and 170 MW of BESS.
  • Represented the developer of large-scale computing infrastructure in a $300 million project/corporate hybrid loan facility for the development of large-scale computing infrastructure in Texas, Nebraska, and North Carolina and in a joint venture with a national utility. 
  • Represented tax equity investor on the $70 million tax equity investment in a 70 MW BESS project located in CAISO.
  • Represented the lenders in the $650 million financing of a gas-fired power project in ISO-NE.
  • Represented sponsor in the development and financing of a 440MW LNG to power project.  
  • Represented developer in the sale of a portfolio of solar projects in MISO.
  • Represented lender on a $43 million tax credit bridge loan and letter of credit facility for the construction of a 100MW BESS project in ERCOT.
  • Represented developers of hyperscale datacenters developers, including power and interconnection arrangements, site acquisition and financing strategy.
  • Represented the lenders in a $250 million revolving development loan facility and mezzanine term loan facility to a utility-scale solar developer, supported by a portfolio of operating and development solar and BESS projects.
  • Represented the lenders in the nearly $300 million construction financing and equity bridge financing of a 260 MW solar project in ERCOT.
  • Represented lender groups on more than $700 million of back-leverage financings for the construction and acquisition of residential solar projects, each of which was secured by interests in tax equity partnerships.
  • Represented the lenders in a $130 million revolving loan facility for the acquisition and safe harboring of solar panels for deployment in its residential solar business.
  • Represented a sponsor in series of cash equity investments in its tax equity and back-leveraged solar portfolio.

*Noah advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie. 

 

Credentials

Education


Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2005 Hobart College, B.S., 1996

Bar Admissions


District of Columbia New York