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We advise developers, investors, utilities, banks and manufacturers across the full renewable energy lifecycle. Our international teams give clients a single point of contact for cross-border renewable energy projects. We advise on offshore and onshore wind, solar, bioenergy, district heating and battery storage, as well as the ESG and sustainability obligations that increasingly go with them.
Our team covers
Energy Transition & Renewables
Project structuring and financing, M&A, decentralised energy, EV charging infrastructure, decarbonisation agreements.
Solar (Photovoltaics)
Planning, grid connection, construction, storage hybrids, PPAs and guarantees of origin, dispute resolution.
Wind Energy
Onshore and offshore development, turbine supply agreements, financing, M&A, repowering, energy market arrangements.
Bioenergy
Planning, construction and operation, regulatory frameworks across our markets, infrastructure agreements, project finance, M&A.
District Heating
Supply contracts, connection agreements, easements, access rights, and the regulatory frameworks that apply across our markets.
ESG
EU Taxonomy and SFDR reporting, governance frameworks, compliance risk, ESG-linked financing, senior management workshops.
Experience Highlights
- Accompaniment of negotiations between the European Commission and representatives of Chinese solar module manufacturers on the introduction of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs in the EU; implementation of measures
- Legal support of a project for the construction and operation of a municipal district heating supply system
- Sale of a UK solar park developer to a major Chinese company;
- Sale of UK port and manufacturing facility to major German company;
- Restructure and funding of a Group of international renewable energy companies in the UK;
- Development of hydroelectric schemes, wind farms, and solar park developments in the UK for UK and international companies, including the acquisition of companies owning developed schemes.
- Advised Vattenfall in relation to its market entry in Germany and subsequent reorganisations
- Leading negotiations on the construction of the UK’s largest solar farm at RAF Coltishall.
- Advising a developer of a 30MW energy recovery facility in NE Scotland in respect of its seed and HNW funding round, feedstock supply contracts, project finance and EPC contract procurement.
- Advised the developer of a 1.1MW anaerobic digestion facility on a dairy farm on all corporate, financing and commercial contract arrangements for the development of the project. Negotiated all feedstock (slurry/silage) supply, digestate offtake, heat off-take and private wire electricity supply arrangements, finance agreements and associated step-in arrangements.
- Responsible for corporate and finance law in a project-financed company operating a 400MW offshore windfarm in the German exclusive economic zone in the North Sea (in house)
- Leading the internal teams, shareholders and external advisors in negotiating and executing a EUR 520 million refinancing of the company’s syndicated bank loans (in house)