Infrastructure and Energy (I&E)

In the last 5-10 years, we have advised on more ‘big ticket’ oil and gas deals on the European Continental Shelf than any other firm. We have worked on more than 25 large (>$1 billion) oil and gas deals in the last 18 months.

Our clients include Genel, Hitec Vision, INEOS, Kosmos, Maersk Oil, Premier Oil, PTTEP, Puma Energy, Repsol, Seadrill, Shell, Trafigura, Valaris and Vitol.

We have an unrivalled conventional power and renewables practice. For example, our work includes the largest and most ground-breaking projects in the offshore wind sector, where we have advised the world’s largest offshore wind company, Ørsted, on all of its UK project financings and major wind projects. In addition, we have been involved in some of the key deals reshaping the UK energy market, including OVO’s acquisition of SSE’s household energy and services business.

Our clients include Centrica, Contour Global, Drax, Mitsubishi, Ørsted, OVO, RWE, the UK Government and YTL.

We are active in all of the principal infrastructure sectors worldwide, including power generation, transmission, distribution and storage, midstream, and downstream oil and gas, water and waste, airports, roads, rail, ports, logistics, stadia, telecoms (masts, cable and fibre), other networks and social infrastructure.

Our clients include BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), INEOS, Legal & General, Lendlease, MTR Corporation, OMERS, Ørsted, PSPIB, Vodafone and Wren House.

We have advised Ørsted on all of their project financed UK offshore wind projects since 2014, including the original development of their HoldCo financing structure. Highlights include:

• the disposals of a 50% interest in the 1.218GW Hornsea 1,659MW Walney Extension, 573MW Race Bank and 210MW Westermost Rough offshore wind farms; and
• the acquisition of the project companies established by Siemens Project Ventures and Mainstream Renewable Power to develop the Hornsea Zone, with a potential of 3GW offshore wind capacity, and ongoing advice for matters on its investments in the Hornsea projects.

We advised Mitsubishi Corporation on its acquisition of a 20% stake in OVO, and OVO’s subsequent acquisition of SSE’s GB household energy and services business.

We have advised Premier Oil on various matters including its financial restructuring, the acquisition of E.ON's North Sea business, takeover of Encore Oil and the acquisition of Oilexco North Sea Limited.

We advised Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the leading independent infrastructure investor, on the sale together with its co-investors of a 50.01% shareholding in London Gatwick Airport to VINCI Airports.

We are acting as lead global counsel to Hyphen Hydrogen Energy on the multi-billion US dollar structuring and development of a vertically integrated large scale green hydrogen project in Namibia including renewable generation, water desalination, electrolysis, hydrogen and ammonia production, storage, transport and shipping, and associated grid and port infrastructure.