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King & Spalding LLP

King & Spalding LLP

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England - London • Projects, energy and natural resources

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Power (including electricity and nuclear)

King & Spalding LLP provides ‘focused, constructive’ advice in cross-border transactions, disputes and project development mandates involving power, renewable and low-carbon energy projects. The team is led by Dan Feldman and Kelly Malone, who act across the energy value chain in large-scale project development, financing, construction and M&A. Daniel Giemajner and Matt Hardwick joined from Akin in January 2025, bolstering the firm’s offering in project finance and contract structuring, respectively. Nikhil Markanday departed the firm.
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Accolades

Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: NPS ®

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Dan Feldman is exceptional in the support of our green hydrogen projects. By far the best we have worked with.’
  • ‘Great expertise, customer orientation, pragmatic advice easily implementable in a business environment.’
  • ‘Kelly Malone provides well-coordinated management of input from subject matter experts across a significant number of diverse legal subject matters and geographic regions. Deep experience in supporting major industrial projects (including oil & gas, power, and nuclear) globally.’
  • 'Their advice has been excellent - focused, constructive, and easy to understand for a client.’
  • 'The relationship between the firm and client has grown over the several years I have been involved with the project to be one grounded in trust and respect for the firm's capabilities and responsiveness.'
  • 'The professional resources deployed have been uniformly excellent.'

Key clients

  • NEOM
  • EverWind Fuels
  • PT Kayan Hydropower Nusantara
  • Macquarie Asset Management
  • Egypt Green Hydrogen SAE

Work highlights

Advising NEOM on all aspects of the $8.5bn world's first green hydrogen/ammonia export megaproject, Project Helios in Saudi Arabia.
Advising EverWind Fuels on all aspects of the first green hydrogen/ammonia export project from the Americas.
Advising PT Kayan Hydropower Nusantara on all aspects of the development, construction, debt financing and offtake of/from the 1375 MW Mentarang Induk Hydropower Project, located in North Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Practice head

Dan Feldman; Kelly Malone

Other key lawyers

Daniel Giemajner; Matt Hardwick