England - Yorkshire And The Humber • Projects, energy and natural resources (including PFI)
AG Service Company Limited
With a 'responsive, creative, diligent, and personable' team, Addleshaw Goddard's energy and utilities group is divided into four subsets spanning the oil and gas, power, utilities and energy-for-business arenas. The practice covers the full spectrum of issues relating to energy sector mandates, acting for a broad range of energy companies, developers, PE funds and financial institutions, and is active at a national and international level, with a notable focus on the EMEA region. Richard Goodfellow and Paul Dight jointly lead the practice; Goodfellow specialises in energy and utility projects while Dight handles the development of energy infrastructure and energy regulation. Other key names include construction expert David Shaw, nuclear sector specialist James Reynolds and Sara Gilmore, who divides her time between Leeds and Manchester.
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Testimonials
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‘A robust understanding of the renewables sector and a clear knowledge of how the commercial documents work together.’
‘Paul Dight is a very experienced operator in this space who came recommended to us. It was evident that he has thorough in-depth knowledge of the subject matter.’
‘AG provide quality advice and clearly have a wealth of experience and knowledge in the sector, providing commercial insight which will strengthen the foundations of our scheme.’
‘The individuals we've worked with are responsive, creative, diligent, and personable. They have been a pleasure to work with over the past few months. Jack Harris and Josh Dye have stood out for these reasons, their professionalism has been exceptional.’
‘Great extension of our internal legal team, genuine interest in our business and how we are looking to grow so that they can ensure continued alignment. Small team with diverse skill sets that have been able to support a broad range of areas that our business support.’
‘Richard Goodfellow is fantastic, very responsive and a great person to work with. Matthew Overton - great all rounder and very pragmatic/solution orientated.’
‘The team have excellent knowledge and experience of the smart meter industry - making them the go to experts in this area. The team are very commercial. While they are technically excellent, they add value by giving us technical advice in an easily digestible and "business friendly" format.’
‘Richard Goodfellow is extremely experienced in energy and utilities - his combined knowledge of the industry and practical approach is invaluable during a commercial deal. Matthew Overton is one to watch - his has excellent knowledge of the industry, and we have always appreciated his ability to give us technical advice in a format that is easily digestible for our non-legal colleagues.’
Key clients
- Volkswagen AG
- Bute Energy
- Environ Group
- Euro Garages
- Pod Point
- Wizz Air
- SDCL
- Intelligent Growth Solutions
- SSE Generation Limited and SSE Electricity Limited
- Onsite Energy Projects Limited
- Aviva Investors
- Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)
- Cranswick Foods
- Red Rock Power a wholly owned subsidiary of SDIC Power, a Chinese SOE
- Siemens
- Gravis Capital
- ERG
- Octopus Energy
- Engie
- Diamond Transmission Corporation Limited
- Peel Group
- Greencoat Capital
- Consortium of banks, including Societe Generale, SMBC, MUFG Bank and Mizuho Bank
- Scotia Gas Networks plc (SGN)
- Horizon Infrastructure Limited
- Urenco
- Aberdeen Standard
- National Nuclear Laboratory
- United Utilities
- Southern Water Services
- Anglian Water
- Network Rail Infrastructure Limited
- Foresight Group Holdings Limited
- ASDA
- ABF
- Channel Four
- BT
- UK Parliament
- BP pulse
- Unify Energy
- +Charge
- Yorkshire Water
- P3
- Royal Mail Group
- EQUANS
- Canadian Solar
- Arrival
- Prologium
- Industria Resources
- Yorkshire Energy Park
- Trojan Energy
Work highlights
- Handling novel energy projects and emerging technology work including relating to hydrogen (SGN's H100 hydrogen project – the only at scale hydrogen grid, bp), heat pumps (Octopus, Vaillant), smart metering and comms hub structuring and procurement advice for Smart DCC (the only smart metering licensee in the UK), biogas to grid (in Germany for SDCL and UK biogas to grid for transport fuels for YWS), Sustainable Aviation Fuels for Wizz Air.
- Providing offshore wind advice including to Octopus Energy on its long term supply arrangement with Shell from the largest offshore wind farm in the World, Peel on its two new CfD backed projects in Scotland and Hitachi's offshore wind blade factory in the Humber.
- Advising on Corporate Power Purchase agreements for major energy consumers in the UK and Europe including Network Rail, Diageo, South East Water, Britvic.
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Richard Goodfellow, Paul Dight