Can function as outside adviser or on a contract basis (“outside in-house”)

  • Risk evaluation and management
  • In-house counsel
  • Corporate structuring for projects (SPVs and investment vehicles)
  • Project contracts (financing, supply, off-take, procurement, construction)

Familiarity and experience with:

  • Commercial and regulatory drivers and decision processes
  • Common law and civil law systems as well as cross-system security issues
  • Financing structures and capital raising (equity, debt, plain vanilla, mezzanine, limited-recourse, etc.)
  • Investment structuring, documentation and negotiation for venture capital and private equity investments especially in renewable energy, power generation and environmental technologies
  • Regulatory environment for funds in Europe (UCITS, MiFID, AIFMD, Dodd-Frank, etc.)
  • Issues such as business ethics (OECD Bribery Convention, US FCPA, UK Bribery Act, etc.), procurement (Procurement Directive, Utilities Directive), etc.
  • Taxation issues (VAT, off-shore and semi-off-shore jurisdictions)