Clare is the head of our Clean Energy sector and, as a Partner in our Banking team, also leads our Project Finance practice.

She has been active in infrastructure and the UK energy sector since the late 1990s, with involvement in many high-profile and innovative finance transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

• How can government funding and guarantees de-risk early-stage projects, unlock private investment, and accelerate net-zero infrastructure?
• Transmission networks, hydrogen hubs, ports, and CCUS clusters: what financing models are needed to deliver these essential projects efficiently and equitably?
• How can regulation and targeted public support stimulate technological innovation and regional development without creating distortions or unfair advantages?
• How to ensure energy systems remain secure, reliable, and cost-effective for consumers while supporting large-scale investment?
• Ensuring that investment in infrastructure benefits multiple regions and supports local economic growth alongside net-zero objectives
• Lessons from the market where public-private collaboration has successfully accelerated projects or de-risked investments

• Onshore wind is a cornerstone of the UK government’s ambition to become a “clean energy superpower”
• Following publication of the Onshore Wind Taskforce Strategy, do we now have the tools to deliver?
• The results of AR7 and the impact on the UK market
• The great repowering prize – and how can we seize it?
• What will be the investment and route to market dynamics, for both new build and repowering?

Colin heads up our Planning and Environmental team.

He has extensive experience of advising on the planning and environmental aspects of major development projects, especially in the energy sector.

• Results and shakeout from AR7
• Market sentiment for fixed and floating?
• What needs to change?
• AR8
• Unlocking the future floating pipeline

Jamie is a specialist in the regulation of the energy and utility sectors. He also advises on public law, subsidy control and competition law. He advises across a full range of regulatory interactions.

Jamie brings significant experience from his time working as Head of Legal for the Systems and Enforcement functions at the energy regulator Ofgem, where he handled high-profile and complex regulatory matters at a time of significant change for the energy sector.

• Grid Connection Reform: Assessing the first round of Gate 2 offers and what will the next rounds look like given the result and transition to the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP)?
• REMA & National Pricing: What does the shift to reformed National Pricing mean for investor certainty and wholesale market volatility in a post-REMA landscape?
• Strategic siting and the SSEP: The challenges in delivering the ‘whole system’ plan for generation and demand in Great Britain – how joined up will the SSEP be with the key policy drivers, including CfD allocations and network price, control decisions?  
• TNUoS Reform:  Addressing the challenge in balancing the revenue requirements of grid transformation with the implementation of stable, cost-reflective signals. Will there be continuing uncertainty for generators?

George acts in a number of areas in real estate, including development, property investment, leasing, ports and infrastructure.

He works with a wide range of clients and has been involved in a number of large and high-profile private and public sector projects.

• Our ports will play a critical part in ensuring the UK government targets for offshore wind are achieved – is enough being done to ensure we have the infrastructure ready in time?
• The impact of AR7 – will this allocation round be enough to bring the Offshore Wind Port Superhubs to life?
• What does a successful freeport look like for offshore wind and how close are we to realising them?
• How is SOWPA helping to facilitate multi-port strategies?