Norton Rose Fulbright has done significant work to facilitate the green transition in the UK and internationally with its multi-disciplinary and cross-jurisdictional climate change, sustainability and energy transition teams.

In a recent highlight, a team led by co-chair of the renewable energy practice Rob Marsh advised a consortium of lenders on the financial close of the third phase of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm worth £3bn. Upon completion it will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world with the capacity to power six million UK homes.

Head of energy for EMEA Charles Whitney and Peter Young assisted the underwriters, led by Citi, HSBC, and MUFG, with the $7.8m green bond issuance for the 2GW Al-Dhafra Solar PV Independent Power Producer, the world’s largest project financed solar project. Young also advised the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) on its green bond issuance worth of ZAR 3bn, which will be the first transaction to fund green energy in Africa under the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Goal 7 Programme.

London-based Caroline May, who is both head of environment, health and safety as well as head of sustainability across EMEA, leads the firm’s 20-year long engagement with DP World on Europe’s largest remediation and ecology programme; the firm has been appointed specialist environmental counsel by the client on several matters related to the project from environmental liabilities to negotiation of leases. Within the firm, May ensures that sustainability is embedded in internal operations as well as its professional services and has helped to establish a clear path to net zero. She also chairs the Law Society working group on climate change and is co-chair of the Legal Sustainability Alliance.