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Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
Advised Thames Water on strategic, planning and consenting aspects of a significant water transfer project, including on regulatory submissions.
Advised a London landowning charity on a complex, combining two mineral extraction sites and the construction of a dam. This created a flood storage area to deliver a bankable, multi party land package and enable a nationally significant flood resilience scheme.
Advising infrastructure developer on the EPC contracts (FIDIC Silver, 1st Ed) for a 10 MLD Drinking Water Supply System in West Java, Indonesia.
Advising a Philippine developer and preparing EPC Contracts for a Bulk Water Supply Project, in Calabarzon, Philippines. At 80 MLD, this is anticipated to serve the needs of 3.5m people in Manila.
Providing Thames Water with strategic planning advice on the consenting of its Strategic Resource Option projects, including White Horse Reservoir, Oxfordshire.
Acting for Thames Water in its procurement of the main works contracts to be entered into in relation to White Horse Reservoir project (SIPR model estimated at £5bn) and its water abstraction project at Teddington (TDRA) with key packages in relation to tunnelling and a treatment plant (estimated at £242m).
Advised CSG Chemical Solutions, a leading Irish and UK chemical supplier, on the acquisition of Cork-based Celtic Water Care Solutions Limited (Celtic Water Care).
Advised a major engineering and construction company on contractual structures for participation in a hydropower project in Tanzania, including analysis of options and negotiation strategies.
Advised a major infrastructure joint venture on potential claims for losses following a water main burst during the delivery of major tunnelling works, including assessment of liability and recourse against the local water authority.
Advised a consortium of leading energy and investment companies as lead counsel on securing $1.6bn senior debt and $400m equity bridge financing using Islamic structures for a major water pipeline development in Saudi Arabia.
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EmailGordon advises on consenting of major projects and environmental and regulatory issues across the energy, transport and infrastructure and sectors.
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EmailGurmeet has extensive experience in legal practice and has practiced law in the Middle East region since 2007. She has advised public and private clients on infrastructure and energy projects with a particular focus on PPP, renewable energy, water and power projects.
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EmailKirstie leads our Australian Environmental and Planning team and advises on all aspects of environmental and planning law. Her practice focuses on large scale energy and renewable and infrastructure projects and she has advised on over 150 projects nationally.
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EmailLouise specialises in the infrastructure sector and has experience advising developers and contractors on complex projects, including PPPs, in Australia and the UK. She advises clients on complex tenders for the design, construction and maintenance of projects procured through a wide variety of methodologies.
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EmailSonal specialises in PPP transactions, concessions and other large infrastructure projects and focusses particularly on transport and defence projects.
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EmailWill is a corporate lawyer whose practice covers energy and infrastructure transactions focusing on project development, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.
Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district.
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised manufacturing companies PROXMUS and Promus on the sale of their businesses to CGH Innovation, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of steel tanks and a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm headquartered in Miami.
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