Energy, Infrastructure & Natural Resources

Our Energy, Infrastructure and Natural Resources team offer unrivalled expertise across the Northern Irish and Irish market. Our all-island energy team have led some of the largest energy infrastructure projects in the country and have extensive experience of this challenging sector.

Our team works with leading developers, investors, project finance lenders and utilities whilst maintaining close relationships with regulators and policy makers to help guide the development of the industry.

We adopt a commercial approach to provide solution orientated advice to our clients as they work to deliver the transition to net zero.

Our expertise includes the following:

  • Development of projects including onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, anaerobic digestion, battery storage, electric vehicles, hydrogen and green gas
  • M&A and joint ventures in the Energy, Infrastructure and Natural Resources sector
  • EPC contracts, turbine supply and energy sector construction agreements
  • Electricity and gas transmission, distribution and interconnectors
  • Project finance
  • Power purchase agreements
  • Regulatory advice
  • Energy sector property, such as wind farm and solar leases, pipeline and cable wayleaves and easements
  • Environmental permits and health and safety regulation
  • Electric vehicle charging

Experience

  • Phoenix Energy

    Purchase of Northern Ireland’s largest gas distributor by a consortium of investors for £760m.

  • Brookfield Renewables

    Financing and development of its on-shore wind farm portfolio totalling over 100MW and its sale to Orsted.

  • Energia

    Financing and development of its on-shore wind farm portfolio, its bioenergy business, its green hydrogen project, electric vehicle and battery storage projects.

  • EPH

    Regulatory advice on the closure of the coal units at Kilroot Power Station and the conversion to natural gas.

  • NatWest / Ulster Bank

    Project financing of all of the large scale solar farms in Northern Ireland and two portfolios of large scale onshore wind farms.

  • SBM Offshore

    The development of North Channel Wind, the first off-shore wind farm in Northern Ireland.

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