The joint projects and real estate team at A&O Shearman acts for both lenders and borrowers in a broad range of project financing deals. The practice excels in all types of renewable energy matters, including onshore and offshore wind farm development, solar parks, hydrogen, geothermal, water and biogas installations. Conventional energy issues, data centre developments and financing as well as infrastructure and transport are also key areas for the firm. Leon Hoppenbrouwers, Zeeger de Jongh, Jochem Spaans, Werner Runge jointly lead the practice. PPP expert de Jongh is well versed in advising construction and data centre companies and is also skilled in renewables projects. Advisor and litigator Spaans focuses on environmental law and has recently assisted with energy and industrial projects, while Runge works on a range of financing and project financing transactions. Grace McLeish, Koen de Wit and Cees van Ginneken assist on all matters related to banking and finance.
Testimonials
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‘The A&O project finance practice is one of the most knowledgeable teams in Netherlands concerning PF/PPP operations. With the wide expertise and experience it is one of our preferred suppliers of legal advice.'
‘The team lead Zeeger de Jongh is involved in almost all transactions in the Netherlands and as such had all needed connections and market insights that make him not only a trusted adviser, but also a practice leader to rely on to get new, innovative and mostly practical solutions to any legal or documentation issue that may come up.’
Key clients
- ABN AMRO
- PMV
Work highlights
- Advising EdgeConneX and EQT on the refinancing of their entire European data centre portfolio.
- Advising the syndicate of banks on the amendment of the senior financing and subordinated financing of Windfarm Gemini.