Taha Qureshi

Prior to joining Kirkland, Taha was involved in the following matters:

Digital Infrastructure and Power

• A sovereign investor in connection with a multibillion-dollar joint venture with an infrastructure developer for the development of digital infrastructure and related power projects in the United States, including renewable power solutions supporting hyperscale data-center operations.
• A major U.S. energy company in connection with a joint venture to develop gas-fired power generation facilities supporting data-center operations, including gas turbine procurement, long-term service, fuel supply, construction and power offtake arrangements.
• A global data-center developer in connection with the negotiation of critical equipment, hardware, component supply and service agreements for large-scale data-center developments across multiple U.S. jurisdictions, including arrangements relating to cooling systems, switchgear, transformers, battery systems and modular infrastructure.
• Developers and energy sponsors in connection with long-term power purchase and other power-supply arrangements supporting hyperscale data-center operations, including arrangements addressing reliability requirements, curtailment risk, credit support, interconnection capacity and renewable integration.

Project Development, Construction and Procurement

• Renewable-energy developers, infrastructure investors, project sponsors and contractors in connection with more than 100 bespoke EPC and other construction agreements for utility-scale solar, battery storage, data-center, water, hydrogen and industrial infrastructure projects in the United States and the Middle East.
• Project sponsors, developers and contractors in connection with EPC, balance-of-plant, equipment supply, operation and maintenance and long-term service arrangements, including the negotiation of performance guarantees, delay and performance liquidated damages, warranty regimes, change-order procedures and project-interface risk.
• Infrastructure investors and development platforms in connection with the creation and implementation of standardized project-document suites covering EPC, balance-of-plant, equipment procurement, operation and maintenance and long-term service arrangements across portfolios of infrastructure assets.

Renewable Energy and Storage

• An infrastructure investment firm and its renewable-energy development platform in connection with the development of utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects across multiple U.S. jurisdictions representing approximately 2 GW of aggregate capacity, including EPC, O&M, solar-module, inverter and battery-supply arrangements.
• A battery-storage developer in connection with the development of approximately 650 MW of utility-scale battery energy storage projects in the United States, including capacity-sales, energy-management, inverter-supply and construction arrangements.
• A sovereign power-procurement entity in connection with the competitive procurement and development of utility-scale solar and wind projects representing more than 5 GW of aggregate generation capacity, including power purchase, interconnection, project-development, site, EPC and O&M arrangements.
• Renewable-energy developers, independent power producers, utilities and corporate offtakers in connection with physical and virtual power purchase agreements for utility-scale solar, wind, solar-plus-storage and hybrid renewable-energy projects.
• A leading global renewable-energy company in connection with its acquisition of a significant minority interest in a portfolio of solar and wind projects representing approximately 1.5 GW of aggregate generation capacity.

Energy Transition and Industrial Projects

• A major U.S. airline in connection with a long-term sustainable aviation fuel offtake arrangement, including environmental-attribute sharing, product-blending and related services arrangements.
• Renewable natural gas and sustainable aviation fuel developers, producers and offtakers in connection with long-term offtake, feedstock-supply, gas-processing and environmental-attribute arrangements.
• A developer of green-ammonia projects in connection with the reservation and procurement of first-of-kind electrolyzer and related production equipment.
• An industrial-project developer in connection with a joint venture with a national energy company for the development of a world-scale methanol production facility, including joint venture, EPC, O&M, natural-gas supply, transportation and product-offtake arrangements.

International Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships

• A developer of a first-of-kind sustainable desalination and brine-processing project in the Middle East, including the project’s joint venture, intellectual-property, captive-power, feedstock-supply, EPC and product-offtake arrangements.
• Governmental authorities and public-sector procurement entities in connection with the competitive procurement and development of power, water, wastewater and desalination projects in the Middle East.
• An international development agency and engineering consultant in connection with the procurement and development of a major desalination and water-conveyance project in the Middle East.
• Infrastructure consortiums in connection with competitive procurements for major light-rail and rapid-transit projects in Canada and the United States, including project-agreement, construction, operations, risk-allocation and consortium-governance arrangements.

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