Global head of energy and infrastructure Daniel Tyrer heads up the team at Linklaters LLP alongside energy and utilities specialists Chris Staples and Richard Coar. The team is vastly experienced advising its noteworthy client portfolio on the gamut of matters across the sector. Its expertise encompasses waste-to-energy and energy transition projects of significant scale. Further, it advises on mandates involving green hydrogen, battery storage, offshore wind and CCUS, which is a particular focus of Charlotte Morgan‘s. Battery projects have been a particular focus of Francesca Matthews. The team’s projects are frequently multijurisdictional in nature and of value in the billions; Jeremy Gewirtz often handles high-profile work. Maryam Adamji was promoted to partner in May 2022 and has experience advising on complex matters ranging from the development of interconnectors to the development of nuclear plants. Former co-head of the offering John Pickett retired in the same month. Katie Williams left to Ashurst in November 2022.
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Key clients
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
- Ørsted Wind Power A/S
- Green Investment Group
- Cory Riverside Energy Finance Limited
- SSE Thermal Generation Holdings Limited and Equinor New Energy Limited
- Meridiam
- Greenlink Interconnector Financing Limited and Partners Group AG
- Private equity arm of Goldman Sachs
- Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”)
- Matthew Cowlishaw, Matthew Smith and Daniel Butters of Teneo Restructuring Limited (“Teneo”)
Work highlights
- Advised the sponsor team comprising of Meridiam, Allianz Capital Partners and Kansai Electric Power on the financing of the NeuConnect interconnector project.
- Advised Ørsted on the £3bn divestment of a 50% stake in its 1.3 GW Hornsea 2 Offshore Wind Farm to a consortium comprising AXA IM Alts and Crédit Agricole Assurances.
- Advised Cory in relation to the financing and development of the Riverside 2 energy-from-waste facility which will be located adjacent to Cory’s existing EfW facility in South London.
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Charlotte Morgan has a wide range of experience in the energy and infrastructure sector. On the infrastructure side Charlotte leads the team advising Thames Water in respect of the £4.1bn super sewer Thames Tideway project, creating a new structure for investment in infrastructure projects. She continues to advise a consortium of 3i, Siemens and Innisfree on the circa £1.5bn rollingstock procurement for Thameslink. In new power generation she is advising Centrica in respect of its new nuclear joint venture with EdF and 2Co in respect of the first to market carbon capture and storage project in the UK. In transmission she advised Transmission Capital in respect of their successful purchase Offshore Transmission Operator assets at Robin Rigg, Gunfleet Sands, Ormonde and Barrow and in respect of the bids for Lincs, Gwynt y Mor and London Array. She is currently advising National Grid and Elia in respect of the UK-Belgium interconnector.
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Daniel Tyrer, Chris Staples, Richard Coar