Hagai Zaifman

Sidley Austin LLP

Hagai Zaifman is a renewable energy tax partner in Sidley’s tax group. Hagai advises developers, sponsors, leading private equity and strategic investors, and lenders in connection with wind, solar, battery storage, clean hydrogen, fuel cell, biogas, carbon capture, and other alternative energy projects.

Hagai has extensive experience structuring, planning, and negotiating infrastructure and renewable energy transactions, with particular emphasis on tax equity financing and the monetization of the various available clean energy tax credits.

Prior to joining Sidley, Hagai worked at General Electric Capital (GE) where he served in several tax leadership roles, including as the Tax Director at GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS), one of the leading investors in renewable energy projects in the United States. In this role, Hagai led the GE EFS tax team and oversaw all tax aspects of the business, including underwriting, structuring, investing, managing, and disposing of more than US$10+ billion debt and equity portfolio of US and foreign wind and solar projects.