Simmons & Simmons

Projects.

Patrick is an energy and infrastructure lawyer. He has many years of experience of power, oil and gas and infrastructure work. He acts on a wide range of transactions, covering projects, joint ventures, private M&A and asset acquisitions, privatisations, commercial contracts and trading and regulatory work. He has a broad-ranging practice both in the UK and internationally, where he has particularly strong experience in Central and Eastern Europe and South Asia. Patrick’s power sector expertise covers thermal, nuclear, and renewables generation, emissions trading, transmission, supply and distribution. He was heavily involved in establishing the UK power market at privatisation and in its subsequent reform; and he has worked on many major power projects and acquisitions in the UK, mainland Europe and Asia since the early 1990s. His other energy and natural resource experience includes oil and gas pipelines, refineries, supply contracts, oil and gas acquisitions and mining and water sector transactions.

Trained Freshfields; qualified 1987; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for over 20 years, including partner for 15 years and a period as managing partner of the Frankfurt office; visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley while researching as Harkness Fellow in the US; partner Simmons & Simmons 2007.

Fluent French and German.

King’s College London (1986 first class honours law degree); University of Paris 1 (1982 Maitrise en Droit); Harvard University (1992 LLM).