Tal Carmeli

Tal's experience advising:

Carbon Credit Transactions and Regulatory Matters

• Living Carbon on an agreement with Microsoft to remove 1.4 million tonnes of carbon from US-based reforestation projects
• Microsoft on the deployment of its US$1 billion Climate Innovation Fund
• Business Alliance for Climate Action (BACA), a coalition of more than ten leading project developers, on voluntary carbon market issues
• California Coalition for Climate Ambition (CCCA), a coalition of more than fifteen participants in the California allowance market
• Mombak on the structuring and negotiation of multi-year afforestation carbon sales agreement with Microsoft
• Emergent on a US$1.5 billion REDD+ carbon transaction announced at COP-26 across 7 sovereigns (including Norway, Ghana and Costa Rica) and more than 25 companies
• TotalEnergies:
  • on the acquisition of carbon credits generated by a cookstove project in Rwanda developed by DelAgua
  • on the purchase of carbon credits from and the investment into a forestry fund managed by NativState
• Three major integrated oil and gas companies on regulatory issues in connection with the California cap-and-trade program and low carbon fuel standard
• Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Morgan Stanley on environmental commodity transactions, including carbon allowances and carbon offset credits
• American Airlines, Frontier and JetBlue on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and disclosure issues

Environmental Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions and Financial Offerings

• Lindsay Goldberg’s acquisition of EMCO chemical distributors
• Eastern Energy Gas Holdings, LLC’s US$1.2 billion senior notes offering
• PacifiCorp’s US$1.1 billion offering of junior subordinated notes
• Perimeter Solutions’ US$550 million senior secured notes offering
• NRG Energy on its acquisition of Vivint Smart Home, for US$740 million
• MidAmerican Energy Company’s US$400 million first mortgage bonds offering