England - London • Projects, energy and natural resources
Simmons & Simmons
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National head of the firm’s UK energy, natural resources and infrastructure group Iain Duncan, leads the ‘great group of highly experienced lawyers’ in Simmons & Simmons’ London-based power team. It has vast experience advising a broad-range of clients, being sponsors, financiers, governments, project companies and financial investors on all aspects of significant power and renewables matters. The team has international presence, with Alex Blomfield being particularly experienced in handling cross-jurisdictional work. Marc Fèvre stands out for his expertise handling corporate PPAs related to renewables. Patrick Wallace and Andrew Petry also harness specialisms in this area and are currently advising on Europe’s largest corporate PPA. Simon Kenolty, of counsel, has expertise in finance work. The team also advises on significant wind, solar and battery storage-related work; renewables expert Serra Tar joined the practice in April 2022 from Clifford Chance LLP. Managing associate Tom Gray departed to work in-house in August 2022.
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‘The team has perfect market knowledge and is formed of a great group of highly experienced lawyers, efficient in providing solutions and creative in providing full support to its clients.’
‘A team of brilliant experts, who are very efficient and act as a constant backup in all critical situations for their clients.’
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Key clients
- Mainstream Renewable Power
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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Work highlights
- Advised Mainstream on its exit from the Aela joint venture in Chile, which under the ownership of Actis (60%) and Mainstream (40%), grew to become Chile’s largest independent power producer of renewable energy.
- Advising Stone City Energy and its consortium partners on the project financing and closing of their $1.2bn combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in Uzbekistan.
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