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Peter Hughes
Position
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.
Career
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
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)