Manchester University

Legal practice course, BPP

• Solicitor qualified in England & Wales 2014

Advising:

• RWE – on its acquisition of JBM Solar, a large independent developer of solar and battery storage systems.
• The board of Corallian Energy – on the sale of Corallian Energy to Shell
• Australis – on its joint venture arrangements with wpd offshore Australia Holdings to develop offshore wind projects off the coast of Australia
• INPEX – on an acquisition of a 16.7% stake in the Moray East offshore wind farm in the UK.
• Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc - on its acquisition of a 200MW construction-ready energy storage project in Heysham from Kona Energy
• Swiss Life Asset Managers, on behalf of its investors – on the acquisition of a minority stake in Borssele III & IV, a fully operational offshore wind park located in the Netherlands
• United Utilities plc - on its £100 million disposal of its 70 asset renewable energy portfolio to SEEIT plc
• 777 Partners LLC, a Miami-based private equity firm – on various ongoing matters relating to its investment in London Lions and the British Basketball League
• Greencoat Solar Fund - on the acquisition of UK solar park portfolios from Lightsource bp, Metka, Primrose Solar and others
• 777 Partners LLC, a Miami-based private equity firm - on its investment into the British Basketball League, the amendments to the league's governance structure and its partnership with existing shareholders
• The L'Oréal Fund for Nature Regeneration - on its equity investment in the Real Wild Estates Company, a UK-based rewilding business
• Green Investment Group - on its electric bus and truck charging infrastructure partnership with Heliox B.V.
• Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc - on its acquisition of an 80MW battery storage portfolio from RES
• A consortium led by Kyril Louis-Dreyfus - on its acquisition of a significant stake in Sunderland Association Football Club
• Greencoat UK Wind Plc - on its agreement to acquire a stake in the Kype Muir Extension Wind Farm from Banks Renewables
• Greencoat UK Wind plc and Greencoat Renewable Income - on their joint £648m acquisition of a 49 percent interest in the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm from RWE
• Greencoat UK Wind plc - on its £350m acquisition of SSE's interest in the Walney I and II offshore wind farms
• 777 Partners LLC, a Miami-based private equity firm - on its acquisition of a majority stake in the London Lions basketball team
• Total - on their acquisition of a majority stake in a joint venture with Simply Blue Energy to develop floating offshore wind projects in the UK
• Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc - on its acquisition of an 81MW battery storage portfolio from Anesco Limited
• Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc - on its acquisition of Ferrymuir Energy Storage Limited
• Greencoat UK Wind plc - on its acquisition of Slieve Divena II Wind Farm in Northern Ireland for £51 million
• RWE - on its acquisition of the 382 MW King's Lynn Power Station from Centrica
• Greencoat UK Wind Plc - on its agreement to acquire the Glen Kyllachy wind farm from Innogy
• Japanese utilities JERA and TEPCO - on its investments and joint venture arrangements in relation to the UK energy storage developer Zenobe
• Greencoat Solar - on the acquisition of a portfolio of solar projects
• JCM Power - in relation to the joint venture arrangements relating to the funding, construction and development of the Salima and Golomoti solar projects in Malawi
• Greencoat UK Wind Plc - on its acquisition of the Church Hill and Crighshane wind farms near Omagh in Northern Ireland for £87m
• Greencoat UK Wind Plc - on its acquisition of Brockaghboy wind farm in Northern Ireland from ERG Power Generation SpA for £163m
• A potential buyer of a UK new nuclear power project in Moorside, Cumbria
• Greencoat UK Wind Plc - on its acquisition of an 80 percent stake in five wind farms from EDF Energy Renewables for £98m
• Greencoat UK Wind Plc-  on its acquisition of North Hoyle (offshore in Liverpool Bay) and Slieve Divena (onshore in Northern Ireland) wind farms from institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management for £105m
• Advised the Gao family on the acquisition of a stake in Southampton FC, the English Premier League football club, and its partnership with Katharina Liebherr
• Advised Greencoat UK Wind Plc on its acquisition of Bishopthorpe Wind Farm for £47m
• Funds managed by Hermes GPE LLP on the acquisition of an ownership stake in four regulated gas distribution networks from National Grid. Hermes' acquisition was part of consortium bid which acquired a 61 percent shareholding
• ib vogt GmbH - with the disposal of various development and operational solar projects in the UK to different buyers
• Funds managed by Hermes GPE LLP - on the acquisition of a 25.6 percent ownership stake in Energy Assets Group, the largest independent provider of industrial and commercial gas metering services in the UK and major provider of multi-utility network metering and data services
• Funds managed by Hermes GPE LLP - on the acquisition of a 17.1 percent ownership stake in Southern Water from Future Fund
• Magnetar Capital - on its acquisition and development of a pipeline of UK solar projects with a combined capacity of over 300 MW, and then the subsequent sale of the entire portfolio
• Octopus Investments - on its acquisition of Wryde Croft Wind Farm from Renewable Energy Systems
• Armstrong Energy Limited - on the acquisition and disposal of various solar projects in the UK and India
• Other investors - on confidential negotiations relating to the acquisitions of UK wind farms
• A multinational engineering and electronics company - on the simultaneous acquisition of a UK and US operating company which both specialise in the manufacturing of packaging machinery
• A group of sellers - on the sale of a multinational corporate services provider (involved in securitisation, structured finance and funds transactions) to a private equity fund
• Advised two leading international rugby union entities - on their new partnership arrangements.
• Advised a Premiership Rugby club - on general commercial matters, including its partnership arrangements