Sean Shimamoto Email & Phone Number

I serve as head of Skadden’s West Coast Tax Group, representing clients in a wide range of U.S. federal income tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, partnership transactions, various types of public and private debt and equity financing transactions, initial public offerings and restructuring transactions.I represent both purchasers and sellers in connection with partnership acquisitions and dispositions and taxable and tax-free corporate transactions in the U.S. and cross-border contexts. I also represent clients in connection with private letter ruling requests submitted to the Internal Revenue Service.In addition, I advise clients in the energy sector on a variety of tax matters involving the structuring, development, acquisition and/or disposition of renewable energy projects, and the related project financing, including the qualification for and monetization of tax credits and other tax benefits associated with such projects.I am recognized in Chambers Global and Chambers USA as a leading practitioner in the area of Projects: Renewables and Alternative Energy. I frequently write and lecture on tax-related topics, including in programs sponsored by the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Practising Law Institute, Tax Executives Institute and other organizations.In certain jurisdictions, this may be considered attorney advertising.

Listed skills include Mergers And Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Project Finance, Corporate Finance, and 2 others.

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  Tax Partner

  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Llp & Affiliates

  Oct 1999 - Present - Palo Alto, Ca

  Selected representations include:- Wolt Enterprises Oy in its pending $8 billion acquisition by DoorDash, Inc.;- SK hynix, Inc. in its $9 billion acquisition of the NAND memory and storage business of Intel Corporation;- Credit Karma, Inc. in its $7.1 billion acquisition by Intuit Inc. This deal received a 2021 Tax Impact Deal of the Year Award from International Tax Review;- PayPal Holdings, Inc. in its $4 billion acquisition of Honey Science Corporation;- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation in its $1.3 billion acquisition by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners Inc.;- First Solar, Inc. in numerous matters, including the tax equity investment by affiliates of General Electric Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Moapa project, a 250MW photovoltaic solar power plant in Clark County, Nevada; and the formation and initial public offering of 8point3 Energy Partners LP, a joint venture yieldco with SunPower;- F5 Networks, Inc. in a term credit agreement which provided for a $400 million senior unsecured term loan facility to partially finance its $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security, Inc. and in its $350 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility;- Dynegy Inc. in its acquisition by Vistra Energy Corp.;- Dynegy Inc. and Energy Capital Partners (ECP) in connection with their $3.3 billion acquisition of ENGIE, S.A.’s U.S. fossil electric generation portfolio through a newly formed joint venture, Atlas Power, LLC. Also advising Dynegy in connection with the joint venture arrangements with ECP and ECP’s related purchase of Dynegy’s common stock for $150 million; and- SunEdison, Inc. in numerous matters, including a first-of-its-kind, $1 billion “warehouse” debt financing to fund the construction of its pipeline of renewable energy projects that it plans to drop down into its affiliated yieldco, TerraForm Power.