Pinsent Masons LLP’s renewables and cleantech department advises clients on a variety of renewable energy transactions, ranging from onshore and offshore wind, to solar, green hydrogen and battery storage. Julia Maguire leads the practice alongside Gareth Phillips, an established authority in the offshore wind market, and Ian McCarlie, who routinely advises clients in the UK renewable energy sector on joint ventures, acquisitions, development, and financing of onshore and offshore wind, solar and storage technologies. Other key contacts include clean energy specialist Pete Feehan, John Tyerman for transactions in and clean tech sectors, and Apicksha Patel. Alexander Grant specialises in advisory and dispute work on a wide range of renewable projects; Amy Stirling advises on the UK energy sector decarbonisation; and David Tretowan focuses on transmission, interconnector and battery energy storage projects.
Testimonials
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- 'Pinsent Masons' team is truly the trusted legal advisers. Their legal excellence combined with knowledge of the market as well as understanding of our business make them an obvious choice as the legal advisers.'
- 'Alexander Grant is a star. Always available when needed, very business oriented with a problem-solving attitude and fantastic legal expertise.'
Key clients
- Zenobe Energy
- bp
Work highlights
- Advised Island Green Power on all aspects of the DCO applications for The Cottam and West Burton Solar Projects, two solar PV generating stations with a combined capacity of c.1GW across six sites, each of NSIP scale.
- Advised bp on the Northern Endurance Partnership and Net Zero Teesside Carbon Capture & Storage projects.