England - London • Projects, energy and natural resources
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
The ‘well-organised team of great listeners’ at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP has a strong reputation for its abilities advising on the full scope of power matters of significant complexity and consistently high-value and international in scope. Its areas of focus include advising on the acquisition, disposal and restructuring of assets related to key renewable energy projects, namely offshore windfarms, as well as advising on solar PV and battery storage projects. Wind energy work is an area of specialism for Ravinder Sandhu. The team is also well-equipped to assist its impressive client portfolio in financings and corporate PPAs; financing is a particular area of expertise for Adam Smith, who is noted as being ’practical and easy to work with’. Simon Alsey‘s area of expertise is in M&A, development and commercial contract work in the energy sector. The team is led by Evan Stergoulis.
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Testimonials
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‘An extremely agile and responsive team with strong and granular renewable energy project finance experience.'
‘We are very satisfied and impressed by the work performed by Adam Smith, Oliver Sikora and Evan Stergoulis. They are a well-organised team of great listeners.’
‘Adam Smith is very responsive and has excellent product expertise.’
‘Adam Smith is a partner with the expertise to interpret and resolve disputes among counterparties.’
‘Simon Alsey and Evan Stergoulis are very experienced in the renewables space. Legal advice the provide always includes commercial and tactical support aspects of a situation.’
‘Adam Smith is practical and easy to work with - he is able to explain legal concepts and how to appropriately allocate risks between parties and has good legal market knowledge. Associates Rebecca Downes and April Lord are both quick, accurate and very capable of stepping in.’
‘Ravinder Sandhu has extensive experience in the OFTO transaction sphere. She is not only legal, but very commercially astute and provides a fantastic sparring platform. She is very trusted by us and we would highly recommend her.'
'Simon Alsey is a very strong contact with who we are confident to immediately discuss certain topics and workstreams as they arise. Rebecca Grevitt's experience and knowledge is strong and we very much trust and value her input to our transactions.’
Key clients
- Aker
- Atradius (The Netherland’s Export Credit Agency)
- AXA
- BlackRock Renewable Power Group
- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
- Corio
- Credit Agricole
- CTBC
- EDF
- Eksfin
- Engie
- Equinor
- Glennmont Partners
- ING
- JERA
- Macquarie
- Microsoft Corporation
- Mizuho
- MUFG
- NextEnergy Solar Fund
- Octopus Energy
- Ørsted
- OX2
- PKA AIP Direct II K/S
- RockRose Energy plc
- Santander
- SMBC
- SSE
- Sustainable Development Capital
- Taiwan Cooperative Bank
- Total
- TSK
- UK Export Finance
- Vedera Partners
- Vinci
Work highlights
- Advising Ørsted A/S, AXA Real Estate Investment Managers S.A and Crédit Agricole Assurances through their joint venture vehicles on the disposal of the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm transmission assets.
- Advised the lenders and hedge providers on the approximately $1.6bn project financing of the 298MW Zhong Neng offshore wind farm.
- Advised OX2 on the sale of a 49% stake in three offshore wind projects in Sweden to Ingka Investments.
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Evan Stergoulis