Jorge Medina

Partner

Tax

“Clients appreciate that I provide a broader prospective when delivering advice, having spent over 20 years in renewable energy doing everything from working in an in-house capacity, to serving in a senior business role, to leading renewable energy and infrastructure practice groups at major law firms.”

Jorge Medina of Vinson and Elkins Los Angeles

Overview

Jorge Medina focuses on federal tax policy and controversy issues involving renewable energy and energy transition assets, and he has extensive experience structuring tax-driven transactions. Jorge manages the execution of tax equity, M&A and debt transactions and represents both sponsors and investors in the energy sector in connection with energy storage, wind, solar, hydrogen, renewable natural gas, carbon capture, geothermal, biofuels and electric vehicle infrastructure projects. He is deeply familiar with all forms of tax equity structures, having closed dozens of partnership flip, lease pass-through and sale-leaseback transactions.

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Experience

  • Renewable project sponsor/developer in the $60 million tax equity financing and $30 million ITC transfers to fund approximately $180 million in residential solar assets across 35 states

  • Palmetto Solar, in partnership with Generac Power Systems, in securing a $200 million Department of Energy grant to install, own, and operate residential solar projects in Puerto Rico

  • Renewable project sponsor/developer in the $150 million tax equity financing and $90 million ITC transfers to fund approximately $450 million in residential solar assets across 35 states; this is the first hybrid tax equity transaction to employ a combined representation and warranty and tax insurance policy covering a tax equity investor and multiple tax credit purchasers within a single policy

  • APG Asset Management NV, a Dutch pension manager, in its purchase from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners of a 49% stake in the $1.2 billion Gemini project, which is expected to be the largest solar project in America

  • GreenPoint Partners in tax credit structuring related to the formation of a joint venture with EV Realty, an EV infrastructure development platform, to build out $200 million in electric vehicle charging hubs

  • Complete Solar Holding Corporation, a leading U.S. solar technology, services, and financing company, in its $888 million merger with The Solaria Corporation, forming Complete Solaria, Inc.

  • TeraWatt Infrastructure, an electric vehicle fleet charging specialist, in a transaction that will provide approximately $1 billion of institutional capital to support the buildout of its fleet-focused charging centers and operations

  • CMS Energy in the acquisition and tax equity financing of the Aviator transaction, the largest wind project transaction in 2020 (short listed for multiple Deal of the Year awards)

  • TC Energy, a North American energy infrastructure company with operations in the natural gas, oil, and power industries, in a joint venture with Nikola Corporation, a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy infrastructure solutions, to explore co-developing large-scale clean hydrogen hubs in the U.S. and Canada

  • Archaea Energy LLC, an emerging leader in the development and advancement of renewable natural gas (RNG), in a business combination agreement with Aria Energy LLC, led by Rice Acquisition Corporation (RAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the energy transition sector

  • NextEra Energy Partners, LP in its $733 million acquisition of a 391 MW portfolio of four operating wind assets located in California and New Hampshire

  • Chanel in the $80 million development and tax equity financing of Sunrun solar and solar plus battery storage projects on low-income, multifamily housing, which was Chanel’s first investment in a renewable energy transaction and winner of the 2020 RE100 Leadership Award For Best Community Changemaker deal of the year

  • Tesla in a first-of-its-kind tax credit monetization transaction structure for electric vehicle tax credits, financing over $795 million in vehicles

  • SolarCity in the largest solar distributed generation tax equity transaction in history, funding over $1 billion in solar and battery storage projects

  • SolarCity as tax counsel in the first four solar securitization transactions ever completed

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Credentials

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D., 2003
  • San Francisco State University, B.S. magna cum laude, Honors Convocation, 1999

Admissions

  • California

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Recognitions

  • Chambers USA, Tax (California), 2024–2026
  • Legal 500 U.S., Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2025 and 2026; Tax: U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious, 2025 and 2026
  • Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2025 and 2026
Insights

Client Alerts

Storing Up Certainty: IRS Expands the 45Q Safe Harbor

On August 14, 2026, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued its Notice 2026-50 (the “2026 45Q SH Notice”), which expands …

August 17, 2026

August 17, 2026 • 3-minute read

Client Alerts

5% Safe Harbor Resurrected for Wind and Solar (At Least for Now)

On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (the “District Court”) vacated Internal Revenue …

June 8, 2026

June 8, 2026 • 2-minute read

Articles

Applying the Single Energy Project Framework to Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements Under the Technology Neutral ITC

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 introduced the Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit under section 48E of the Code[1] (the …

May 15, 2026

May 15, 2026 • 5-minute read

Articles

Energy Tax Credits in 2026: A Tale of Two Markets

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s sweeping reforms have reshaped tax planning across much of the U.S. economy, but no …

March 17, 2026

March 17, 2026 • 4-minute read

Client Alerts

Material Assistance Guidance Released, Leaving Taxpayers Wanting More

On February 12, 2026, the Treasury Department (the “Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) released IRS Notice 2026-15 …

February 13, 2026

February 13, 2026 • 5-minute read

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