Charles Whitney > Norton Rose Fulbright > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Consistently active across a wide spectrum of complex power projects, Norton Rose Fulbright’s power team stands out for its specialised advice to multinational corporates, commercial banks, funds, and investors. The firm’s energy, infrastructure and natural resources team is spearheaded by energy project financing specialist Robert Marsh, whose practice covers transactional, regulatory, and contentious work – ranging from nuclear power and energy storage to generation, and distribution. With a focus on the emerging markets – most notably Uzbekistan – Charles Whitney advises developers, commercial banks and export credit agencies on the gamut of power related matters, while Chris Down routinely handles complex matters related to the development and financing of energy projects in emerging markets, including hydrogen projects and gas-fired IPP.  Stephen Rigby focuses on UK energy and natural resources-related corporate finance work, while Susanna Rogers specialises in regulatory advice related to electricity and gas transmission and distribution.

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.

‘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.