Renewable energy legal services across solar, wind and BESS.

Transactional advice on acquisitions, disposals and portfolio transactions across solar, wind and battery storage asset classes. The practice advises buyers, sellers and joint venture partners from early-stage pipeline origination through to signed and completed transactions.

Experience spans development-stage pipeline acquisitions, operational asset sales and platform-level M&A involving multiple SPVs and complex counterparty structures. See representative renewable energy transactions.

• Sale and purchase agreement negotiation and execution
• Development agreement frameworks and exclusivity structures
• Portfolio acquisitions and consolidation transactions
• SPV structuring, reorganisation and group rationalisation
• Framework agreements across large-scale development pipelines
• Transaction management and documentation for matters with cross-border elements

Legal structuring for renewable energy projects from inception through to financial close. The practice advises on the full documentation suite required to bring a project from development stage to bankable, construction-ready status.

Advice draws on direct in-house experience of coordinating legal workstreams across development, permitting, construction contracting and financing simultaneously.

• Development services agreements and project company arrangements
• Site control documentation and land access structures
• Permitting coordination and regulatory pathway management
• EPC wrap negotiation and procurement documentation
• Balance-of-plant (BOP) and component supply agreements
• O&M agreement frameworks

Comprehensive legal, regulatory and contractual due diligence on renewable energy assets and development pipelines. The practice conducts and coordinates diligence exercises for buyers, lenders and investors across acquisition, refinancing and development-stage transactions.

Scope typically covers title and corporate chain review, permitting and licensing compliance, land tenure and site control, project agreements, offtake arrangements and regulatory risk assessment. Due diligence is conducted across solar, wind and BESS asset classes.

• Buy-side and sell-side legal due diligence
• Lender due diligence in connection with project finance
• Red flag and full-scope diligence reports
• Permitting, licensing and environmental compliance review
• Corporate and SPV chain verification
• Contractual and counterparty risk assessment

Advising shareholders, boards and joint venture partners on governance structure, dispute resolution and enforcement within renewable energy platforms. The practice has direct experience of complex multi-party structures involving institutional capital, private equity and family office principals.

The practice acts for minority and majority shareholders, board-level advisors and principals seeking to assess or enforce their contractual position within a platform.

• Shareholder agreement drafting and renegotiation
• Joint venture governance design and board advisory
• Dispute strategy and negotiated resolution
• Exit mechanism design and enforcement
• Shareholder protection and value crystallisation
• Asset consolidation and platform restructuring

Commercial legal support for transactional matters that cross traditional practice boundaries — particularly where project development, project finance and corporate elements intersect within a single mandate.

The practice advises on revenue structures and offtake arrangements that must simultaneously satisfy lender bankability requirements and commercial objectives.

• Power purchase agreement (PPA) negotiation and bankability assessment
• Term sheet structuring and heads of terms
• Transaction management and counterparty coordination
• Commercial agreement review and renegotiation
• Warranty and indemnity frameworks
• Merchant risk structuring and tenure optimisation

Advising on the regulatory environment affecting renewable energy development and operation, with particular attention to how regulatory risk is identified, allocated and managed within project and transaction documentation.

The practice has handled permitting strategy and regulatory compliance across development platforms, including projects structured to access EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) financing.

• Grid connection strategy and permitting pathway advisory
• Regulatory risk identification and allocation in transaction documents
• Licensing and environmental compliance review
• RRF and state-aid framework compliance
• Force majeure and change-in-law structuring
• Regulatory interface and institutional stakeholder coordination