Madhavi Gosavi > Norton Rose Fulbright > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Under the leadership of renewable energy and energy transition specialist Rob Marsh, Norton Rose Fulbright’s renewables team provides comprehensive support to a diverse client base across all facets of solar and wind projects, covering the entire value chain from development and financing to acquisitions and arbitration proceedings. Charles Whitney is a key figure for complex project renewable energy financings in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Uzbekistan, while Chris Down is renowned for his expertise in advising on the development and financing of numerous wind and solar projects. Stephen Rigby chairs the firm’s corporate and M&A renewables practice, bringing extensive experience in joint ventures, acquisitions, investments, and divestitures across offshore wind, solar, and energy storage projects. Madhavi Gosavi, a specialist in project and structured finance, adds further depth to the team’s capabilities, while Melusi Dlamini, newly promoted to partner, focuses on the development and financing of large-scale renewable energy projects across multiple jurisdictions. In the project finance space, Chris Aird and Ben Carrozzi support with the financing, construction, and development of onshore wind, offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen projects.

‘Well plugged in to the market and to current norms’, Norton Rose Fulbright provides ‘commercial and efficient’ advice to an increasingly balanced mix of corporates, funds and lenders on often challenging and highly bespoke acquisition finance mandates. A considerable amount of this work takes place within emerging markets, where the firm has a strong track record advising on energy-related acquisition finance deals, including within Africa. The ‘intelligent’ James Dunnett has niche expertise in supporting financial advisers with cash confirmations for the acquisition of publicly listed companies pursuant to the Takeover Code. As part of his wide-ranging finance offering, Michael Black, who co-heads the department with EMEA banking head Madhavi Gosavi, regularly advises US lenders on matters where the ABL product forms part of the overall financing package to facilitate an M&A transaction.

Led from London by Madhavi Gosavi and able to wield vast international resources, Norton Rose Fulbright can provide ‘responsive and commercially oriented’ advice to an increasingly balanced mix of banks and borrower clients. The ‘outstanding’ Neha Khosla regularly advises clients in the oil and gas space, both in a conventional debt finance capacity as well as with regard to reserve-based lending facilities. Along with Alex Zekkos and Michael Ings, Khosla is also regularly engaged in emerging markets work and in structuring transactions which use commercial and export credit-backed facilities. Davide Barzilai‘s versatile lending practice ensures that he is ‘very well placed to deal with projects covering different types of banking products in multiple jurisdictions’. Michael Black excels in advising banks on secured corporate lending facilities and is noted for his expertise at structuring cross-border deals utilising the ABL product.

Norton Rose Fulbright‘s multidisciplinary team brings financing, development, construction and regulatory expertise to bear on a range of asset types. Practice head Robert Marsh is a key figure for renewables financings and development, recently advising on large-scale offshore wind projects and battery storage facilities. Martin McCann leverages over twenty years of experience at the firm to advise a group of key clients on both project finance and debt finance, particularly in the mining sector. Project and structured finance lawyer Madhavi Gosavi is noted for the scale of her international network, working on landmark transport, energy and social infrastructure builds in the Middle East and Africa. Andrew Buisson provides construction and finance counsel to clients, and is highlighted for his strength on PPP projects and in the rail sector. Providing further PFI/PPP expertise, Melusi Dlamini‘s workload includes renewables, digital infrastructure and social infrastructure builds, while Jessica Melville is chiefly noted for her finance work with commercial lenders, sponsors and government agencies.

‘Highly professional, pragmatic with a global reach‘, Norton Rose Fulbright is truly embedded in emerging markets work for major corporates, borrowers, sponsors, investment banks, government bodies, ECAs, multi-laterals and off-takers. Leveraging its extensive global network of offices, the firm is prominent in mining, oil and gas, power and renewables, infrastructure development, and commodity trading in jurisdictions across Africa, the Middle East and CIS region and Latin America. Martin McCann, who has extensive experience in infrastructure, mining, commodities and project finance, is head of the London emerging markets group. Madhavi Gosavi and Daniel Metcalfe are key advisers on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, and Charles Whitney handles project financings involving ECAs, particularly in the CIS region, Central Asia and the Middle East. Corporate partners Raj Karia, who is part of the firm’s mining and minerals practice, and Bayo Odubeko are among the many partners keenly focused on emerging markets work.