Tara A Higgins

Practice Areas

TARA HIGGINS, a co-leader of Sidley’s global Energy, Transportation & Infrastructure practice, focuses her practice on domestic and cross border energy, transportation and infrastructure transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings and investments, restructurings of all types, and project development. She has particular experience in the renewable energy and sustainability space. Tara has been consistently recognized by several publications, including The American Lawyer as one of their “Northeast Trailblazers” (2022), A Word About Wind’s “Legal Power List” (2022), and Law360 as an Energy MVP (2021), in addition to Chambers USA (2010–2023) and Chambers Global (2011–2024) in the category “Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional,” and has been ranked in Band 1 in Chambers USA from 2021 and Band 1 in Chambers Global from 2022. Tara was also shortlisted for the 2023 “Energy, Natural Resources & Mining Lawyer of the Year” award by IFLR’s Women in Business Law Americas Awards, which celebrates women lawyers who have developed strong and innovative practices.

Tara represents private equity and strategic investors, developers and lenders, and other financiers. She has experience with conventional power, hydroelectric, solar, wind, battery and storage, biomass and other alternative energy projects, midstream gas gathering and processing, interstate gas pipelines and gas storage facilities, water and waste treatment plants, industrial plants and manufacturing facilities, data centers, fiber and digital facilities, and transportation projects. Tara has represented private equity and strategic investors, developers, lenders, and government and multilateral agencies in equity investments and lending transactions in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Ghana, Ireland, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, the Middle East, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, Uganda, and Venezuela.