Advises leading energy and infrastructure developers, investors, lenders and Fortune 500 companies on complex project development, project finance, M&A and strategic capital transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Leads major digital infrastructure matters at the convergence of data centers, power and capital, including powered-site development, hyperscale power arrangements, project and infrastructure finance, strategic investment and platform transactions.

Guides clients across the full infrastructure lifecycle, from development, commercialization and financing through growth capital, acquisitions, dispositions and other strategic transactions.

Advises renewable energy and storage developers on sophisticated project financings, tax equity and tax credit transactions, PPAs and other commercial arrangements, including projects positioned to serve rapidly growing data-center and technology-sector electricity demand.

Advises governmental and private-sector clients on strategic capital and critical supply-chain investments involving energy, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing and infrastructure supporting the AI economy.

Shah Jahan H. Khandokar is a Partner at McDermott Will & Schulte in London with a practice focused on complex energy, infrastructure, mining, and natural resources transactions across emerging and developed markets.

Shah Jahan helps clients navigate complex regulatory, financing, and geopolitical challenges to deliver transformative projects that support economic growth, sustainable development, and the transition to resilient economies.

He represents sponsors, investors, lenders, multilateral institutions, commodity traders, and governments on the development, financing, acquisition, and implementation of strategic projects. His experience spans renewable energy, conventional power, hydrogen, LNG, oil and gas, critical minerals, rare earth elements, and digital infrastructure, with a particular focus on assets and supply chains that support the global energy transition.

Shah Jahan has advised on some of the world’s most significant energy developments, including the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project and associated Southern Gas Corridor infrastructure, a landmark development that expanded access to Caspian gas supplies for European markets. He has also advised on large-scale LNG, pipeline, power generation, renewable energy, and energy-transition projects across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America.

In the mining and natural resources sector, Shah Jahan advises on the development, financing, acquisition, and commercialization of projects involving critical minerals, rare earth elements, battery metals, and other strategic resources. His experience includes project structuring, offtake arrangements, pricing mechanisms, strategic partnerships, and cross-border investments, often in jurisdictions that are central to the supply chains underpinning clean energy technologies, advanced manufacturing, and energy security.

His practice is particularly focused on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, where he has advised on many of those regions’ most significant energy, infrastructure, and natural resources developments.

Seth Doughty focuses his practice on transactional matters in the energy industry with a special emphasis on power procurement, tax equity financing, and build-transfer agreements. He has a focused interest in energy storage projects and is a co-author of the United States’ Department of Commerce’s forthcoming Understanding Energy Storage handbook.

In the power procurement area, Seth has drafted and negotiated a wide variety of power purchase agreements, contracts for differences, and other purchase and sale agreements, including for energy, capacity and resource adequacy, renewable energy credits, energy efficiency and distribution deferral products. He is experienced in handling procurement of offtake from conventional, renewable and energy storage technologies for both the “in-front-of-the-meter” and “behind-the-meter” projects. He has represented utilities, developers, and corporate buyers in regulated and unregulated markets.

In the tax equity space, Seth has acted for Sponsors and Tax Equity Investors in nearly 3 gigawatts of tax equity investments for solar, wind, and hybrid energy storage projects throughout the United States. He has represented either the purchaser or the seller in build-transfer agreements relating to over 3 gigawatts of solar, wind and battery storage capacity in regulated and unregulated spaces.

Prior to joining the firm, he worked in-house at one of the largest Southern California utility companies. There, he gained experience drafting and negotiating a variety of power procurement agreements and valuable insights about utility customers.

While in law school, Seth was a senior editor for the Southern California Law Review.