The Cleaver Fulton Rankin energy and renewables team are well-equipped to provide corporate, real estate, tax, and infrastructure advice across various energy sectors. Headed by Stephen Cross, the team offers counsel to energy firms, investors, and financial entities. The ‘standout performer’ Karen Blair plays a leading role for Dalradian Gold Limited in respect to title issues relating to the acquisitions of land for the mining project, while Brendan Martyn lends expertise on drafting requirements for energy infrastructure.
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- ‘Exceptional commitment to the client and project.’
- ‘Karen Blair remains the standout performer, and is continuing to build a strong team, with Brendan Martyn as a particularly strong performer.
- ‘The ability to manage large infrastructure projects is superb. ’
- ‘They provide vital insights and value to the client. The briefing is focused and detailed.’
- ‘The energy and projects team have a great depth and breadth of knowledge. They are proactive, able and focused.’
- ‘The stand-out partner I work with is Brendan Martyn. He is approachable and knowledgeable and is a great communicator. Matters get attended to efficiently and with the minimum of fuss. He is a tactical and strategic thinker.’
- ‘This company is very professional and knowledgeable in all aspects of these type of energy projects and make a point of advising on every term used in all legal documents or contracts ’
- ‘The renewable energy department are eager to move out of their comfort zone, should it be embracing and learning about the legalities of the latest technologies or merely a grander scale of such technologies they already assisted with in the past.’
Key clients
- Dalradian Gold Limited
- EirGrid / SONI
- Assured Energy LLP
- The Lycra Company
- Close Brothers Asset Finance
- Gravis Capital Partners
- Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIEN)
- Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation (NIAUR)
- HSBC UK Bank PLC
- Harland & Wolff plc / Islandmagee Energy Limited
- Welcome Break Limited
Work highlights
- Advising Northern Ireland Electricity, the licensed distribution network operator for Northern Ireland, on its way leave network for Northern Ireland’s electricity distribution network to include the granting of all new way leave agreements together with their way leave portfolio management.
- Advising Assured Energy LLP on (1) an enforcement notice issued by a local authority in respect of an anaerobic digester operation, and (2) the management of their portfolio of AD plants, which included the sale of an of 250kW plant.
- Acting for the Lycra Company, an international textiles manufacturer with a major textiles manufacturing plant located at Maydown, Co. Londonderry, on its £8million financing and procurement of a gas-powered energy plant to repower and replace the existing coal-fired turbines.
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Stephen Cross