Lewis Malkin

Lewis’s practice focuses on advising sponsors, developers, investors, lenders, and offtakers on the development, financing, acquisition, and sale of energy and infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on utility scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), renewable energy, and energy transition assets. He has significant experience advising across the full project lifecycle, including development, construction, project finance, tax equity, tax credit transfer, offtake, and M&A transactions.

Lewis regularly advises clients on complex project financings, tax equity investments, tax credit transfer arrangements, and structured commercial contracts for standalone storage, solar plus storage, and broader renewable energy portfolios. He also advises on key development and operational matters, including EPC and equipment supply arrangements, O&M agreements, interconnection, real estate, and project level commercial risk allocation.

Lewis joined the New York office in 2022 after spending four years in Baker McKenzie’s London office. He has also spent time in Baker McKenzie’s Johannesburg office and in house with Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. More recently, Lewis completed over a year long secondment with a leading US-based independent power producer and developer specializing in utility-scale BESS, where he supported its legal, development, and financing teams on a broad range of BESS projects across its US portfolio.

• Advised Jupiter Power on the development, financing and monetization of over 2 GW of utility-scale battery storage projects across ERCOT and MISO, including structuring and negotiation of construction and term loan facilities and tax equity partnerships.
• Advised Jupiter Power on multiple ITC transfer transactions across ERCOT, including structuring transfer arrangements and negotiating key commercial terms.
• Advised Jupiter Power in connection with the holdco-level financing secured by its entire US development portfolio.
• Advised a tax equity investor in connection with its tax equity investment in three utility-scale solar projects portfolio in the PJM market.
• Oversaw various diligence exercises for multiple battery energy storage projects as part of portfolio acquisitions and financings, including review of material project documents, coordination of third-party advisors and delivery of diligence findings to investors and lenders in connection with investments into US renewable energy platforms.
• Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with its investment in a 1.6 GW portfolio of renewable energy projects and related project development, construction and equipment supply contracts.
• Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with its investment in a 1.3 GW portfolio of operating solar and wind projects and related project development, construction and equipment supply contracts.
• Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with its investment in an approximately 605-megawatt (MW) portfolio of solar and solar-plus-storage assets spanning seven power markets and 11 states. The portfolio consists of more than 200 operational renewable energy projects, composed primarily of community solar and commercial & industrial solar assets, with more than a third of the total capacity paired with battery energy storage.
• Advised a global steel and mining company on its development of a significant steel fabrication and rail production facility in the US.
• Advised the sponsors on an acquiring an increased stake in a leading hydrogen production and storage project in the US.
• Advising a national supermarket chain on the construction and development of its automated material handling facility in the US.

• Justin Miller Award (LLM Award for Leadership and Community Participation) (2021)

• London
• Johannesburg