Projects, energy and infrastructure

Interserve and Kajima

Advised the consortium on the UK government’s Priority School Building Programme, the first to use PF2. Achieved financial close of the £122 million HLR project for seven secondary schools.

Hitachi Europe

Advised on bids to supply and maintain ground breaking proton beam therapy equipment in hospitals in the UK and Denmark.

North London Waste Authority

Advising on the North London Heat and Power project, a £450-500 million energy recovery facility. Currently advising on the application for a Development Consent Order for this nationally significant project.

CNDR PFI project

Advising the sponsors on operational matters on the £176 million Carlisle Northern Distributor Route road PFI project.

Lagos airport PPP

Advised a consortium bidding for the PPP concession to design, build, operate, finance and maintain the new Lekki-Epe International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.

Secondary markets

Acting for Equitix and Dutch Infrastructure Fund on secondary market acquisitions.

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Project finance

Green Africa Power LLP

Advising this fund on a series of renewable energy project financings in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dutch bank

Advised on the project financing of the acquisition and development of a portfolio of UK onshore wind projects.

Interserve and Kajima

Advised on the private finance batches of the UK government’s Priority School Building Programme.

Lagos airport PPP

Advised a consortium bidding for the PPP concession to design, build, operate, finance and maintain the new Lekki-Epe International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.

Power and renewables

Green Africa Power LLP

Advising this fund on a series of renewable energy project financings in sub-Saharan Africa including the $100 millon Ngonye Falls hyro power project in Zambia and a micro-grid project in Sierra Leone.

Hitachi Europe

Advised on the Smart Energy Islands project, a project to facilitate a move to a low carbon community on the Isles of Scilly.

North London Waste Authority

Advising on the North London Heat and  Power Project, a £1 billion energy recovery facility.  We are advising on all planning, environmental, construction and public law aspects.

Cofely Fabricom

Advising on the EPC and O&M contracts for a series of ground mounted solar PV projects in the UK.

Dutch bank

Advised on the project financing of the acquisition and development of a portfolio of UK onshore wind projects.

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Construction and engineering

North London Waste Authority

Advising on the North London Heat and Power Project, a £1 billion energy recovery facility.  This involves drafting and negotiating a series of construction contracts using NEC4 and IChemE forms.

HS2

Advising a consortium of Laing O'Rourke, FCC and Murphy on its bids for HS2 civils contract packages.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Advising the Trust on the development of new clinical facilities at the hospital and also on a new private patient unit.

Government and public sector

Post Office

Advising the Post Office on a series of projects and contracts including advice on public procurement matters.

City of Cape Town

Advised on the establishment of the City’s new transport and urban development authority – TDA Cape Town. TDA is responsible for implementing the City’s Transit Oriented Development Strategic Framework which aims to reduce long-distance commutes and urban sprawl, and to lead to higher density housing opportunities in Cape Town thereby helping reverse the legacy of apartheid on the urban form.

North London Waste Authority

Advising on the North London Heat and Power Project, a £1 billion energy recovery facility.  We are advising on all planning, environmental, construction and public law aspects.

Rail and road

Crossrail rolling stock project

Advised Hitachi Rail Europe on its bid for the Crossrail rolling stock project.

European Train Control System

Advising Hitachi Rail Europe on a series of ETCS projects to provide high tech, on board signalling equipment as part of the European Rail Traffic Management System.

Balfour Beatty

Advised on the Carlisle Northern Distributor Route PFI, including on significant rail interface and construction issues.

Africa

Transport for Cape Town

Advised the City of Cape Town on the establishment of its new transport authority, Transport for Cape Town. Now advising on the development of TCT's integrated transport strategies.

Lagos airport PPP

Advised a consortium bidding for the PPP concession to design, build, operate, finance and maintain the new Lekki-Epe International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.

Green Africa Power LLP

Advising this Government fund on a series of renewable energy project financings in sub-Saharan Africa.

Europe

Bucharest Southern Ring Road PPP Project

Advising the Romanian Ministry of Transport on the development of the new Bucharest Southern Ring Road.

New Karolinska Solna Hospital PPP

Advised the FM contractor as part of the winning consortium that bid this hospital PPP in Sweden.

Hitachi Europe

Advised on bids to supply and maintain ground breaking proton beam therapy equipment in hospitals in the UK and Denmark.