Role
Jeff Pollard is a Partner and serves as Co-Head of Infrastructure, Power & Renewables. He joined the firm in 2017.
Experience
Jeff Pollard has over fourteen years of experience in the power and renewables sector, which includes strategic and financial advisory work totaling well in excess of $100 billion. Representative transactions include advising American Electric Power on the sale of its 5.2GW portfolio of coal and gas facilities to a Blackstone and ArcLight joint venture for $2.2 billion, advising First Reserve Infrastructure on the sale of its North American Power portfolio to an investor consortium (financial terms not disclosed), advising MACHGen on its sale to Talen Energy for $1.2 billion, advising GE EFS on its acquisition of 49% interest in Enel Green Power NA Renewable Energy Partners (financial terms not disclosed), advising Energy Capital Partners on the sale of its EquiPower portfolio to Dynegy, Inc. for $3.5 billion, and advising Constellation Energy Group on its merger with Exelon Corp., which created the largest competitive energy provider in the U.S.
Prior to joining Solomon Partners, Jeff Pollard was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he spent over a decade and led the unregulated power generation business.
Education
Jeff received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.
Transactions
Served as M&A and restructuring advisor to Ares on its sale of Newark Energy Center, a 705 MW Combined Cycle Facility in PJM PS-North, to Hartree Partners
July 2023
Served as financial advisor and debt placement agent to Earthrise Energy on its acquisition of 984 MW Gas-Fired Peaking Portfolio in PJM-COMED
December 2022
Served as financial advisor to Earthrise Energy on its acquisition of 773 MW Gas-Fired Peaking Portfolio in MISO Illinois
December 2021
Solomon Partners served as financial advisor to Propex on its sale to Solmax
December 2021
Served as financial advisor to EDF on the Sale of its 49.99% Interest in CENG, a 4.0 GW nuclear portfolio located in PJM and NYISO, to Exelon for net proceeds of $885 million
August 2021
Served as financial advisor to Ares and Oaktree on the Sale of their 28% Combined Interest in Linden Cogeneration, a 972 MW Combined Cycle Cogeneration Facility in NYISO Zone J
June 2021
Advised Astoria Project Partners LLC and Astoria Project Partners II LLC on the sale of 100% of Astoria Energy I and approximately 55% of Astoria Energy II (together, “Astoria Energy”), representing two of the most efficient natural gas power plants in the premium New York City power market.
June 2020
Served as financial advisor to Ares in its sale of a majority interest in Hill Top Energy Center, a 620MW Combined Cycle Project in PJM
May 2019
