Ladan Mohaddes represents sponsors, lenders, and financial institutions in debt and tax equity financings across the renewable energy, conventional energy, and infrastructure sectors.

Ladan focuses her practice on complex financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Prior to joining Latham, Ladan was an associate at another law firm in New York, where she represented sponsors, developers, and financial institutions in a variety of energy and infrastructure financing transactions.

Before attending law school, Ladan worked as a patent examiner at the USPTO. Her concentration area was in renewable energy technology, including battery storage and hydrogen and fuel cells. She received a Bronze Medal from the Department of Commerce for Superior Federal Service.

Prior to USPTO, Ladan was a senior packaging engineer in a leading semiconductor company, where she led supplier selection and qualification effort and helped with suppliers' development activities and capacity expansion.

Ladan’s experience includes representing:

  • A sponsor in connection with a tax equity financing of a 100 MW solar project in Illinois and a 240 MW solar project in Texas and transferring production tax credits to buyers*
  • A sponsor in connection with a debt and tax equity financing of two utility-scale solar projects with a total capacity of 220 MW in Pennsylvania*
  • A sponsor in debt and tax equity reorganizations associated with five utilityscale solar projects in Hawaii*
  • A utility and power generating company in an approximately US$632 million term loan facility and a US$42.4 million letter of credit facility supporting a portfolio of over 250 operating C&I distributed generation solar projects, and refinancing existing credit facilities back-leveraged to multiple different tax equity partnership*
  • A sponsor in connection with a sale-leaseback tax equity financing of multiple solar electric generation facilities located in Arizona and Maine*
  • A lender on a US$300 million revolving senior loan secured by a variety of development-stage clean energy assets, including solar, storage, and RNG projects*
  • A major financial institution in connection with its supply and offtake transactions and other financing transactions*
  • An energy hedge provider in connection with a standstill and sale process agreement related to a distressed wind project and a third-party sale process*
  • An underwriter in a Health Central Utility Plant P3 Project*
  • A seller in connection with transferring investment tax credits to buyers in connection with a battery energy storage system facility located in Texas*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2021
    cum laude
  • BSc in Materials, Mining & Metallurgical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
  • PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park