Peter Hughes is a counsel in Clifford Chance's Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group, based in Washington, DC. He advises developers, investors, lenders and US agencies relating to energy and infrastructure projects worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the US and US federal energy regulatory issues. He has particular expertise in renewable energy financings.

Peter received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an A.B., summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, a MES in EU Integration Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar, and a MPhil in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge, England. He is admitted in New York and Washington, DC, is a dual American and British citizen, and speaks fluent German.

Dartmouth College (AB) 2006 University of Bonn, Center for European Integration Studies (MES) 2007 University of Cambridge, St. John's College (MPhil) 2008 New York University School of Law (JD) 2011 Judicial Clerk, The Honorable Robert G. Doumar, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2011 Joined Clifford Chance 2012 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2012 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the District of Columbia 2013