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Overview
Mehran Massih heads our environmental transaction support practice globally. He is a qualified US and English lawyer with an extensive footprint in the United States and Europe, advising for more than 25 years on environmental, social and climate change matters that arise in the context of corporate acquisitions, divestitures and financings. His work ranges from advice on M&A transactions and securities offerings to emerging developments in the carbon markets to Equator Principles considerations in project finance. He also advises clients regularly on emerging ESG corporate disclosure requirements, whether as Securities and Exchange Commission rules in the United States or within the European Union framework.
Education
- Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D. 1991
Representations
- Marubeni Corporation in connection with a significant minority investment by Marubeni Corporation and Lithia & Driveway in Wheels, a leading fleet management company in North America
- H.I.G. Growth Partners in its sale of CarltonOne, a leading developer of employee engagement and loyalty software, to Goldman Sachs Investment Management.
- H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $60 billion of capital under management, in its acquisition of Segers Aero Corporation
- A subsidiary of Spearmint Energy, a next-generation renewable energy company enabling the clean energy revolution through battery energy storage, in connection with a $47.5 debt financing to support Spearmint’s recently-completed Revolution Project – a 150 MW, 300 MWh battery energy storage facility in West Texas
- H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Penhall Company, North America’s largest provider of concrete services
- First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company and MUFG Bank, Ltd., as coordinating lead arrangers on the $250 million construction/term and tax equity bridge financing for a portfolio of three battery storage projects totaling 327 MW developed by Middle River Power
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Societe Generale, Truist, and the other lead arrangers in a $779 million project financing in connection with Swift Current Energy’s Double Black Diamond Solar Project
- Spearmint Renewable Development Company, a next-generation renewable energy company, as borrower, and its subsidiaries as guarantors, in connection with a $200 million term loan facility for the development of Spearmint's existing BESS assets and future BESS development projects