Ashwadha Manoharan is an Associate at the law firm of Mercer Thompson LLC. Ash focuses her practice on advising clients involved in the construction, development, design, and operation of energy projects, including in the solar, wind, and natural gas energy industries. Prior to joining the firm, Ash practiced in an international law firm in India, advising clients on a variety of cross-border transactions and corporate governance issues in the manufacturing and automotive sectors.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Vaibhav Sahay is a principal at the law firm of Mercer Thompson LLC. Prior to joining the firm, Vaib practiced both in house, at a renewable energy developer, and in private practice at top tier Canadian and global law firms. Vaib’s practice focuses on project finance, mergers and acquisitions and project development in the power industry.
Business Disputes
American Bar Association (Member, Business Law and International Law Sections, Energy Business Committee, Project Finance and Development Committee, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, Subcommittee on M&A Market Trends, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, Corporate Governance Committee)
Business Transactions
Ms. Thompson’s practice since 1996 has been focused principally in the areas of commercial real estate development, leasing and finance with a concentration since 2009 in representing both regulated and non-regulated electric power companies in project development and finance matters. Her recent work has involved representing parties in the solar, wind, and nuclear energy industries in the acquisition, development, financing and sale of various energy projects. Overall, Ms. Thompson has a strong background assisting clients with complex business transactions.
Construction Contracts
Nathan Santamaria is a specialist in project development and financing of energy and infrastructure assets across the Americas. Nathan represents the full spectrum of project transaction parties, including sponsors, developers, contractors and lenders. He has the rare experience of having successfully lead negotiations on both large-scale project engineering, procurement and construction contracts (EPCs), as well as multi-billion dollar syndicated limited recourse financings ultimately funding a project’s construction. Nathan has particular expertise negotiating project development and commercial documentation, including, in addition to scores of EPCs, other construction arrangements (such as GMP and cost plus structures), operations and maintenance agreements, supply and offtake contracts, and project RFP processes. Nathan’s project financing experience includes Term Loan A syndicated limited recourse project financings and Section 4(a)2 private placements for power projects, fuel storage terminals, a utility water supply project and major transport infrastructure. He is active in the solar, wind and renewable fuels sectors, the LNG industry (liquefaction and regasification), and conventional power and pipeline transactions.
Intellectual Property
Sumner C. Rosenberg is Of Counsel in the law firm of Mercer Thompson LLC. Mr. Rosenberg has specialized for over thirty-five years in all aspects of intellectual property law. His current practice focuses on licensing and counselling regarding patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks. His initial law practice also included environmental law and utility law including nuclear regulatory work, as well as construction contracting on nuclear and coal power plants. His engineering work involved programming for Apollo moon missions and early systems design work for the Space Shuttle on-board computers.
Counsel to a private developer in connection with its development of a 500 mile overhead transmission line in the Western United States, responsible for all engineering, procurement and construction agreements. Project cost estimate exceeds $1 billion.
Real Estate Transactions
Real Estate counsel to an IPP on its acquisitions and ongoing development of multiple wind projects, including those in Nebraska (200 MW), Illinois (132 MW) and South Dakota (97 MW).