Bio

Jeff Pollard is a Partner and serves as Co-Head of Infrastructure, Power & Renewables. He joined the firm in 2017. 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. 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.