Peter Greenall

Peter has experience advising both sponsors and lenders on projects and transactions across the infrastructure, power and oil and gas sectors. Peter has significant experience advising clients on financing arrangements, construction contracts and offtake agreements. Whilst Peter’s practice has focussed on the development of greenfield projects he also has experience advising investors and vendors on the acquisition and disposal of existing brownfield project-financed assets.

Peter’s recent experience includes the following transactions:

• Representation of Humber Gathering System Limited, a member of the CATS Management Limited group of companies, on its financing arrangements to construct the Humber Gathering System gas pipeline in the North Sea
• Representation of AMP Capital on its financing arrangements in connection with its acquisition of The Regard Group
• Representation of Mitsui and ENGIE on the sale of four thermal power plants in the UK to Energy Capital Partners and representation of Mitsui on the sale of its interest in the First Hydro hydroelectric power plant in the UK to Brookfield
• Representation of the lenders on the novel portfolio financing of a number of tranches of smart meters
• Representation of a Saudi renewables developer on its proposed investment in the Thames Gateway energy-from-waste plant in Dagenham, London
• Representation of a sponsor on its disposal of its equity interest in its three UK PFI street lighting SPVs in Leeds, Stoke on Trent and Newcastle and the subsequent refinancing of the senior debt in each of the three SPVs
• Representation of an energy from waste SPV on its £500 million debt refinancing package for its energy from waste plant
• Representation of an infrastructure investment fund in its bid for the acquisition of a UK smart metering business
• Representation of the European Investment Bank on its financing arrangements across a number of asset classes including rolling stock, smart metering and motorways; across western Europe
• Representation of the sponsors on the £2.6 billion Beatrice offshore wind farm, Scotland’s biggest wind farm
• Representation of the project sponsors on the financing of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital
• Representation of a consortium of investment funds in their bid for the acquisition of the Frigg and FUKA gas transportation pipelines and associated on-shore facilities in the UK portion of the North Sea
• Representation of the project sponsors on the development and financing of an oil logistics port in Ghana
• Representation of Thames Water on the development of the regulatory and contractual framework for the Thames Tideway Tunnel
• Representation of the lender on the receivables financing of Morocco’s only oil refinery
• Representation of an oil and gas independent in Nigeria on the restructuring of its gas sales agreements in order to obtain a partial risk guarantee from the World Bank
• Representation of a Middle Eastern government sponsor in connection with the restructuring of the entire corporate governance and contractual framework of a new-build nuclear power project in order to align decision making processes and address the new regulatory requirements in the context of nuclear and operational oversight
• Representation of a Middle Eastern government sponsor in connection with restructuring the financing of, and raising new debt capital for, a new-build nuclear power project