Move your projects forward with confidence at every stage, from early structuring through to financial close and operation.
You gain a team that works alongside you to navigate complex financing structures, manage risk and deliver successful outcomes across global energy and infrastructure projects.
Eversheds Sutherland’s worldwide Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance practice advises developers, sponsors, lenders, investors and other participants across the full spectrum of transactions including domestic and cross-border project financings, acquisition financings, public-private partnerships, tax equity transactions and related corporate and structured finance matters.
We work with the developers, utilities, investors and lenders to help you move projects forward.
We provide you with a deep bench of experience on all aspects of project development and finance, drawing on the firm’s global network of tax, M&A, real estate, regulatory, construction, commercial contracts and environmental specialists to assess a project’s risk allocation and financeability to drive successful closings.
Our practice spans clean energy technologies such as solar, wind, battery storage, carbon capture, geothermal, hydropower, nuclear, as well as gas-fired power generation, upstream and midstream infrastructure such as pipelines and LNG facilities, petrochemicals, toll roads, water desalination and treatment and mining infrastructure.
In addition to fluency in multiple languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, you receive support from a team fluent in multi-sourced financings involving export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, development finance institutions, and international commercial banks, with particular strength in cross-border transactions across Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, North America and Eurasia.
You benefit from the structure we can provide in a variety of project financing arrangements, from traditional mini-perm or long-term secured and unsecured debt, multiple-lien financings and bridge loans to tax equity and IRA-driven financing structures, vendor and supplier financings, subordinate debt and hedge and offtake arrangements. Our team is equally at home advising investment banks, project sponsors, private capital financiers, multilateral and export credit agency lenders, major corporations and cooperative utilities on their most complex financing needs.
Our Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance capability in Ireland
With over two decades’ experience in the Irish energy market, our lawyers have advised on the full range of energy projects and energy regulation matters, including conventional, renewable, hybrid, storage and interconnection projects. Whether you are a developer, utility, state agency or financial institution, our lawyers can offer you a full service solution in Ireland.
Our lawyers, advisors and consultants are experienced in all aspects of Irish Project, energy and infrastructure finance law. We have recently advised on the following:
- a large domestic lending institution in relation to the project financing of eight solar farm developments in Co. Cork, Ireland to be developed by a solar Group. We also recently advised this lending institution on the financing of an extension to awind farm
- a European multinational investment bank on its cross-border mezzanine financing of 66 solar projects across Ireland and UK to be developed by leading international and independent solar development platform. The total volume of the projects will amount to approximately 1.13GW when developed
- a large domestic wind farm developer in relation to the financing and development of several onshore wind farm projects, including the 57MW Boggeragh Mountain Wind Farm, the 28MW Dromdeeveen Wind Farm, the 24MW Bawnmore Wind Farm and the 44MW Knocknagoum Wind Farm
- a London-headquartered fund on the acquisition, development, financing and sale of a 36MW Dromadda More Wind Farm
- an independent developer on the financing and development of the large operational biomass CHP project on the island of Ireland