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Partner
Energy & Project Finance
London
+44 (0)20 7220 5707 Phone
+44 (0)20 7220 5772 Fax
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Carbon Capture and
Storage
Climate Change Law
and Policy
Global Renewable
Energy and
Associated
Infrastructure
International
Environmental,
Health & Safety Law
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English solicitor working in the London office of Hunton & Williams. Practice focuses on energy projects, carbon finance and trading, and infrastructure law, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy. The head of the renewable energy team in London, John has many years of experience in the sector. His experience began with UK wind projects and has moved into a broad spectrum of global renewable energy projects, with a recent focus on waste-to-energy, biomass and green waste concessions. John acts for developers, banks, equity providers, employers and contractors in this field. He has advised on projects around the world, including in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. John is recognised by Chambers Directory as a "leading individual" in both Renewable Energy and Climate Change.
Relevant Experience 
Current and recent transactions include:- Developers Counsel for South East Asian biodiesel refinery
- Advising Natsource and its subsidiary entities relating to primary and secondary emission reductions purchase agreements, participation in World Bank facilities and general corporate and structuring issues
- Banks Counsel on portfolio financing of 4 municipal composting facilities
- Banks Counsel on North Rhins Wind Farm
- Banks Counsel on Valorbois biomass power project
- Developers counsel on food waste aerobic digestion plant
- Advising Developers upon current round of Portuguese wind projects
- Banks Counsel for Mynydd Cloggau wind farm
- Structuring the forward sale of EU Allowances from a permitted facility in the UK, serving as part of a security package in lieu of acquisition finance being provided by a US bank
- Developers Counsel for Parc Cynog wind farm
- Developers Counsel for Blaen Bowi wind farm
- Advising a UK based utility in relation to the secondary purchasing of CERs from a Japanese company
- Banks Counsel for North Pickenham wind farm
- Advising a Brazilian landfill gas operator in relation to the sale of Certified Emissions Reductions to the trading subsidiary of a major global oil company
- Developers Counsel for biogas portfolio (8 sites)
- Banks Counsel on waste-to-energy gasification project in Stoke-on-Trent
- Project Counsel for bioethanol project
- Equity Providers Counsel on acquisition of 200MW on and off-shore wind portfolio
- Developers Counsel for acquisition of consented Italian wind portfolio in Sardinia
- Developers Counsel for acquisition of consented Turkish wind portfolio
- Project Counsel for Hungarian waste-to-energy scheme
- Developers Counsel for acquisition of Italian operating biomass power project
- Banks Counsel for UK sludge burning power plant
- Developers Counsel for acquisition of UK biomass portfolio (4 projects) (principally virgin timber burning)
- Developers Counsel for acquisition of Belgium biomass portfolio (principally waste timber burning)
Background
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales since 1988
- Solicitor, Freedman & Co, 1988-90
- Solicitor, Baker & McKenzie, 1990-96
- Solicitor, Hammonds, 1996-98
- Partner, Hammonds, 1998-2004
- Partner, Hunton & Williams, 2005 - present
Education - Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, 1998
- M.Sc., Kings College, University of London, 1994
- Solicitors Final Professional Examination, 1986
- LL.B., Liverpool Polytechnic, 1985
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