Ashfords LLP advises clients such as project sponsors, lenders, and local authorities on a broad range of projects and PFI work, and is routinely instructed on major infrastructure mandates. The team’s diverse pool of expertise includes natural resources, especially water, as well as waste, clean energy, decarbonisation, and ports and harbours. Practice head Brian Farrell is a specialist in energy generation and waste resource management projects, and a go-to advisor to energy and water sector clients on commercial and regulatory matters. The team also includes Carl Thompson, who is a seasoned lawyer in clean energy work; Jonathan Croley, a commercial and energy lawyer with unique capabilities in legal issues relating to anaerobic digestion; and real estate energy expert Rhiannon Morgan Williams.
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Testimonials
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- They have excellent sector experience and knowledge coupled with a style of engagement that provides clients with first-class service.
- They are technically very capable, have great sector knowledge, and are commercially aware.
- Carl Thompson is a heavyweight star in the sector, with a wide breadth of sector knowledge and experience. Kim Hawkins has a wide breadth of experience, and as he has worked on the other side of the table as well, he really understands clients' commercial drivers.
- Deep industrial knowledge of the sector and of recent transactions; clear understanding of counterparty expectations; ability to provide clear, well-communicated arguments/thoughts regarding challenging/complex deal matters.
- Stephen Humphreys is highly personable and is always on hand to offer support no matter how complex the issue. His planning knowledge and diligence are second to none! Working with Stephen and the Ashfords team is an absolute pleasure; his commercial mindset and focus on the clients' needs always ensure good outcomes for projects, with a strong ability to simplify complicated legal issues into understandable and easy-to-communicate scenarios and solutions.
- I appreciate their frank advice and their support. I felt as though Ashfords did a very good job at handholding where required and lending expertise to situations that can be adversarial.
Key clients
- IG Renewables
- Oranmore
- WAGA Energy
- Orddu Energy Park
- Augean
- Malta Recycling
- Windward Energy
- EverWaste Solutions
- Enfinium
- FCC Environmental
- Tribus Energy
- Next Energy
Work highlights
Advising Viridor on the Vendor Due diligence as part of Equitix’s significant equity investment into the Company.
Providing full legal project support to Manby BGE in its development of a biorefinery centred on anaerobic digestion technology.
Advising RWE on a proposed 110MW solar farm in South Wales, a proposed Development of National Significance (DNS), which will be RWE’s first solar farm in Wales.
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Practice head
Brian Farrell
Other key lawyers
Carl Thompson; Jonathan Croley; Rhiannon Morgan Williams; Kim Hawkins; Stephen Humphreys; Stephanie Gillam; Sophie Tucker; Thomas Ewings