Sam Kamyans

Partner

Washington, D.C.

Sam is a partner in the global Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure practice, based in our Washington, D.C. office. He is well regarded for his expertise in partnership tax structuring and negotiating key tax deal points in a wide array of transactions focused on financing renewable energy infrastructure, and brings unique expertise in carbon capture transactions. In addition, he has significant experience negotiating and advising domestic and international taxpayers in mergers and acquisitions focusing on implementing tax-efficient cross border deals.

Sam brings a solutions-oriented approach that helps clients across the energy, private equity and real estate industries structure and implement complex mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, equity extractions, internal restructurings and public and private offerings. His experience extends to a global clientele, including sovereign wealth funds, non-US pensions, and global private equity funds. In this capacity, he structures inbound investments using a mixture of debt and equity to achieve the commercial objectives of investors in a tax efficient manner. Sam’s expertise involves transactional planning utilizing partnerships and joint ventures, and exit planning.

Sam’s unparalleled experience includes having served at the Internal Revenue Service where he provided national guidance on partnership and energy related matters, being tax counsel to Sempra Energy, a Fortune 100 energy company, and being a partner at a prominent US energy-focused firm.

Sam is a recognized lawyer in The Legal 500 US, Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power (2020) and in The Legal 500 Latin America, Projects and Energy (2021).