Let us help you benefit from the energy transition.
Wherever you are in the world, our lawyers can facilitate market understanding and connect you with opportunities when and where they arise.
With complete global market visibility, we can advise you across the entire energy transition, helping you minimize risk and enhance value. We can help with all your legal needs whether you are procuring decarbonization solutions, providing them or financing them. We also work closely with governments around the world, including at all levels in the US, and can help to shape regulation in your favor where possible.
Whatever your niche, we can provide experienced lawyers to match your needs. We have worked on some of the largest and most innovative transactions of their kind, including several first-in-country and first-in-technology projects. Our technical excellence covers clean power and heat, renewable fuels such as bio-gas, bio-diesel and hydrogen, and on-shore and offshore wind and solar, geothermal and energy storage projects.
Whether you’re looking for help with an acquisition or disposal, climate risk or decarbonization strategy, construction, litigation or public disclosure of your sustainability metrics and objectives, we understand what you’re doing and how it fits into the wider transition. As leaders in sustainable finance and funding, we can also advise you on fund creation and investing as well as green finance.
Our global energy lawyers can help you with all aspects of clean energy law. The team have advised:
- Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) on a €1,375 million acquisition of a 50% interest in the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Members of the global energy team from the Netherlands and Germany advised NBIM on its first investment in the renewables market
- Gresham House Energy Storage Fund on its up to £380 million credit facility with a syndicate of banks, as well as all of its acquisitions, development, construction and operation of battery storage projects since incorporation, including the potential acquisition of several co-located solar and storage projects in California from a California-based asset manager and renewable energy developer
- EDF Energy Renewables Limited in respect of co-location of battery storage facilities within nuclear power sites
- the Ministry of Energy and the Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) on the successful commercial close of the 2060MW Shuaibah 2 Solar PV Project – the largest Solar PV project in the Middle East. The project has the potential to power 350,000 homes with commercial operation expected to be achieved by Q4 2025
- China Three Gorges International Corporation on its acquisition of four wind power plants in Brazil from a UK listed company
- JV of Cube Infrastructure Managers and Equitix on acquisition of a majority stake in a leading waste management and energy recovery organization based in Northern Ireland
Our clean energy lawyers can help you with all aspects of clean energy law. Representative experience includes advising:
- a Chinese SOE on the acquisition of a portfolio of wind assets in Brazil, the largest renewable transaction currently ongoing in Latin America
- a US power company on the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration initiative, which is projected to capture up to 90% of the facility’s CO2 emissions
- a global oil and gas company in its $217 million acquisition of an owner, developer and operator of solar plants with more than 880 MW of solar facilities constructed, contracted or under construction
- on over $1bn of solar PV projects in Egypt Round II FIT
- one of the investors on the largest renewable energy project in Ukraine, the 63 turbine, 250MW Syvash wind project, with a total investment for the project being 380 Euro million
- a consortium of investors on Europe’s largest floating solar project in Zwolle, Netherlands
- on more than 50 corporate PPAs for corporate energy procurement clients
- two financial institutions on the US$12 million and BDT280 million financing of the 28 MW Teknaf Solartech solar project in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The project is the first utility-scale, grid-connected solar project in Bangladesh
Eversheds Sutherland are not just lawyers. They are leaders in the sector who happen to be lawyers.