Speakers from Leo Berwick and Hogan Lovells discuss key deal issues in infrastructure and energy transactions.
Join us for the latest in WIN's breakfast series! Enjoy breakfast and a panel discussion among leading women in infra. Hosted by Leo Berwick and Hogan Lovells!
Please join us in our 2026 Women in Infrastructure (WIN) NYC Breakfast Series, a dynamic and inclusive gathering aimed at fostering meaningful connection and growth among women leaders in the infrastructure sector.
Our July event, hosted by Leo Berwick and Hogan Lovells, will feature a panel with special guests Tania Wang (M&A Tax Partner at Leo Berwick), Amélie Perron (Infrastructure, Energy & Renewables Partner at Leo Berwick), Porter Wiseman (Counsel, Global Regulatory at Hogan Lovells), Alexis Sáinz (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources & Projects Partner at Leo Berwick), and Jessica Millett (Corporate & Finance Partner at Hogan Lovells), moderated by Saranya Chopparupu (Partner and Head of Integration & Separation Advisory at Leo Berwick). This will be followed by breakfast and an opportunity to engage with peers in the sector in a small group setting.
Join our panelists for a discussion on the key deal issues in infrastructure and energy transactions... We encourage attendees to submit any topics or questions when RSVPing.
MODERATOR
Saranya Chopparupu is a Partner and Head of Integration & Separation Advisory at Leo Berwick. She specializes in carve-outs, synergies, IT due diligence, and Day 1/100 integration and separation planning and execution, and has extensive experience designing Target Operating Models and structuring Transition Services Agreements (TSAs).
Before joining Leo Berwick, Saranya led the Value Creation team in Calgary at a Big 4 firm, advising on pre- and post-deal strategies for clients across infrastructure, financial services, private equity, public sector, and non-profit organizations.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Tania Wang is an M&A Tax Partner specializing in tax diligence, tax modeling, and tax structuring. With over 20 years of tax experience, she provides practical and thoughtful counsel to her private equity and corporate clients on complex investment and strategic decisions. Her work spans institutional investors and multinational organizations, enabling her to address the nuanced tax and commercial considerations that arise in large-scale transactions.
Tania advises clients across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on infrastructure, energy, and renewables, including transportation and digital infrastructure. She brings deep experience supporting transactions in technology, business services, and consumer sectors, and now applies that expertise to capital-intensive and highly regulated infrastructure and energy investments.
Prior to joining Leo Berwick, Tania was a national leader at a Big 4 firm, where she advised on hundreds of transactions ranging from $5 million to $20 billion in enterprise value. Her transaction experience includes buy-side and sell-side M&A, leveraged recapitalizations, IPOs (including Up-C structures), spin-offs, cross-border transactions, legal entity rationalizations, and post-transaction operational integrations.
Amélie Perron is a Partner in Leo Berwick’s Infrastructure, Energy & Renewables Financial Advisory practice, who focuses on financial due diligence and financial modelling specifically tailored to infrastructure and energy investors. Amélie has more than 10 years of experience advising institutional and corporate clients on investments in infrastructure assets throughout North America, the UK and Europe in a financial due diligence, commercial due diligence, modelling and financial advisory role.
Prior to joining Leo Berwick, Amélie worked in the Infrastructure M&A and Advisory practice at a Big 4 firm, where she focused on advising investors, pension funds, GPs and insurers on the acquisition, investment and divestiture of greenfield and brownfield infrastructure investments. These assets spanned the transport, digital, power and utilities, and social infrastructure asset classes. Amélie also worked for several years in a Big 4 firm’s infrastructure transaction services practice in the UK, where she similarly focused on advising Infrastructure investors in a financial advisory and due diligence capacity. In addition, she previously spent four years working as an auditor.
Throughout her career, Amélie had advised on more than 75 transactions, with a particular focus on transportation assets. She has also advised private and public infrastructure asset owners and operators on key strategic investment-making decisions, specifically in the aviation sector.
Porter Wiseman has nearly two decades of experience representing independent power providers, electric utilities, and other energy and utility clients in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state public utility commissions (PUCs), including complaint, merger, rulemaking, and ratemaking proceedings. She has a deep and nuanced understanding of utility regulation issues, particularly those arising under the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 (PUHCA), and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).
Porter has extensive experience with competition issues in the power sector, including the development and operation of the organized electricity markets. Her work includes regulatory support and due diligence for transactions in the energy space, such as the sale of generation facilities, including nuclear and hydropower stations and the development of merchant transmission. Porter has advised clients in dozens of matters relating to renewables and distributed generation, including onsite generation for industrial facilities and data centers. She has conducted risk assessments with respect to potential regulatory actions, such as the issuance of declaratory orders and hydroelectric licenses. In addition, Porter has provided regulatory and industry-knowledge support for financial restructuring of public utilities, and for a securities class action litigation against a major oil company.
In addition to her work in the energy space, her work also includes antitrust, and telecommunications matters before the courts and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including a major international telecommunications litigation involving allegations of anticompetitive behavior and litigation before the FCC.
In addition, Porter has represented clients, pro bono, in the fields of voting rights, immigration, tenants’ rights, international human rights, forced marriage, and lead contamination.
Alexis Sáinz is partner in the firm’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources & Projects group. She is the global co-leader of the firm’s Space and Satellite practice and a member of the firm’s Steering Committee for the Latin America Practice Group. She has an international practice in infrastructure finance, including commercial satellites, renewable energy, transportation infrastructure and other core industries.
Alexis has experience getting the toughest deals done, delving into local regulatory requirements, cross-border commercial arrangements, and international governmental negotiations, including negotiating public private partnerships and concessions. She understands projects from both the project development and financing sides and works with project sponsors, lenders and other project participants to focus on key deal points and appropriate risk allocation and mitigants in order to build consensus and drive closure.
Alexis regularly represents developers, operators, financial institutions, project sponsors, private equity firms, hedge funds, export credit and multilateral development agencies and other industry participants in negotiating commercial and corporate transactions and commercially strategic regulatory matters, and on structured, project and vendor financings. She also provides industry advice in connection with debt and equity offerings, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and financial restructurings.
Prior to beginning her legal career in 2007, Alexis served as a consultant for the World Bank, National Geographic, and domestic non-profit organizations, and she was an early member of KPMG Peat Marwick’s financial service’s e-commerce practice.
Alexis has held various leadership positions with national Latino and LGBTQ organizations and is committed to pro bono work.
Jessica Millett is a trusted advisor on U.S. tax matters for clients across the real estate, private equity, funds, and sports sectors. She has deep experience navigating the tax issues that arise in complex real estate transactions — including Qualified Opportunity Fund structures — as well as private equity investments, joint ventures, and other investment vehicles involving tax partnerships. She also routinely structures and advises on profits interests and management incentive programs designed to align management and investor objectives.
Jessica regularly guides clients through tax structuring and documentation for joint ventures, investments involving professional sports teams and related assets, and real estate acquisitions and development projects. Her practice further includes advising sponsors, managers, and institutional investors on private investment funds spanning real estate, private equity, credit, venture capital, and Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs).
Known for integrating tax considerations seamlessly into the earliest stages of a deal, Jessica distills sophisticated tax concepts into clear, practical guidance. Clients value her commercial sensibility, industry insight, and ability to align tax strategy with business objectives and current market conditions.
Jessica is an active member of the American Bar Association Tax Section’s Real Estate Committee.
