Sven Fretthold > Watson Farley & Williams LLP > Hamburg, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Sven specialises in the renewables sector and in public private partnership projects (PPP). He acts for lenders, sponsors and borrowers in domestic as well as international project financing and real estate finance transactions.

He regularly advises lending groups on complex and large scale-projects in the renewable energy sector. He also advises on structured financings of infrastructure and real estate projects.

Sven is recommended as a leading projects lawyer for Germany by legal directories Chambers Europe 2019, 2020 and 2021 and Legal 500 EMEA 2018-19, with the latter highlighting his “ability to convey legal matters to non-lawyers”.

Market sources comment that Sven has a “very good reputation in the German project finance market”.

He has also been ranked in The Best Lawyers in Germany in 2024 in the field of Project Finance and Development Practice as well as ‘Lawyer of the Year for Project Finance and Development Practice’ in 2021 and 2022 by Best Lawyers in cooperation with business magazine Handelsblatt.