Tahiya Sultan

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Bay Area – San Francisco +1 415 439 4044

Overview

Tahiya Sultan is corporate partner in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises clients on complex energy regulatory and transactional matters across the renewable power and infrastructure sectors. Her practice focuses on energy transactions involving power purchase agreements, resource adequacy agreements, energy storage arrangements, renewable procurement and market participation issues within California and regional energy markets.

Prior to entering private practice, Tahiya held positions at the Marin Municipal Water District, the California Public Utilities Commission and the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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Thought Leadership

Publications

“Preliminary Injunction Barring Prop 65 Lawsuits Targeting Acrylamide Remains in Effect,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, April 19, 2021

“Preliminary Injunction Temporarily Bars Prop 65 Lawsuits Targeting Acrylamide,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, April 13, 2021

“OEHHA Proposes New Rules for Businesses Using Proposition 65’s Short-Form Warnings,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, January 29, 2021

“Twelve From Davis Wright Tremaine Named 2021 ‘Lawyers of the Year’ by Best Lawyers,” August 20, 2020

“Trump Track: O, Canada! California's Cap-and-Trade Agreement With Quebec Triumphs,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, July 22, 2020

“CPUC Staff Issues Proposed Modifications to Resume ReMAT Program,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, July 2, 2020

“California Energy Commission Proposes Regulations Implementing Renewables Portfolio Standard Long-Term Contracting Requirements for Publicly Owned Utilities,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, May 18, 2020

“CPUC Proposes Longer-Term Standard Contracts for Small QFs,” Energy & Environmental Law Blog, April 13, 2020

Recognition

Selected to “Northern California Rising Stars” in Energy & Natural Resources Law, Thomson Reuters, 2022–2025

Selected to a list of “Ones to Watch” in Energy Law (San Francisco) by Best Lawyers, 2021

Named as a 2022 “Lawyers of the Year” by Best Lawyers

Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellow, 2018

Recognized in The Legal 500 United States for Energy Regulation: Electric Power, 2025

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2015California

Education

  • University of California College of the Law, San FranciscoJ.D.2014
    Moot Court Best Oral Argument Award
  • University of California, BerkeleyB.A., Sociology & Global Povertycum laude2011