From brand new projects to the realisation and upgrade of existing assets, our advice helps ensure the success of small, medium and large power projects around the world.
Supporting the delivery of new, efficient and clean projects that contribute to worldwide efforts towards increasing energy supply whilst simultaneously reducing CO₂ production is a key driver for the power and renewables sectors who have a critical role in the transition to net zero.
Demand for infrastructure to support power needs, the development of new technology and energy assets, regulatory considerations, government intervention and the need to help developing and emerging markets meet energy needs are all challenges facing the sector and need navigating to deliver successful power and renewables projects.
With an international offering of sector-specialist experts across all service lines, we are the natural legal adviser of choice for clients across the power and renewables industry. We have long been at the forefront of new technological developments in sector and can offer commercially expedient advice combined with a track record of successful results on a wide range of transformative transactions and matters.
Our expertise covers all aspects of the value chain and all stages of power and renewables projects. By leveraging our exceptional projects, corporate, finance, regulatory, dispute resolution and wider transactional services (including ESG), we offer an unrivalled full service in sector to clients including developers, investors, sponsors, financiers, contractors, governments and government entities.
Clients seek us out to assist on large-scale and big-ticket cross-border M&A and financing matters, as well as first-of-their-kind projects and those of national significance. We advise on offshore, including floating, and onshore wind, solar, biomass and other biofuels, alternative fuels such as green hydrogen and E-SAF, hydropower, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, battery storage, traditional conventional power plants and transmission assets.
Our renewables expertise in particular is demonstrated by our regular inclusion at the very top of leading industry and legal league tables across multiple jurisdictions.
Recent highlight matters we have advised on include:
 | TotalEnergies on the sale of its £522m stake in the Seagreen UK offshore wind farm Advised TotalEnergies on its sale of a 25.5% equity stake in the Seagreen offshore wind farm for £522m to PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited, a subsidiary of Thailand’s national oil and gas company PTT. |
 | Çalik Enerji on a US$586.25m financing of Turkmenistan power plant Advised Çalık Enerji Swiss AG on a structured cross-border financing under which guarantee facilities were provided to it by Commerzbank AG in an aggregate amount of US$586.25m and guaranteed by Çalık Enerji San ve Tic. A.S. |
 | Lenders on a €500m European solar infrastructure portfolio financing Advised Rabobank, Santander Corporate & Investment Banking and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg SA on an up to €500m financing in favour of Amarenco for its multi-country portfolio of solar projects. |
