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“We can rely on Shepherd and Wedderburn’s sector knowledge and experience to give us commercially sensible advice, backed by technically sound legal skills.”
Chambers (2025)
The depth and breadth of our expertise puts us at the forefront of the energy and natural resources sector. Our clients have access to the skills of over 120 lawyers from 18 legal practice areas, all working together to provide a legal offering that is cross-disciplinary and truly sector-focused.
A number of those lawyers have completed secondments with our energy clients, giving them a deeper understanding of the market opportunities and the key challenges facing those clients. A number of our Partners also have gained unique insights in many different ways, including: as a senior regulator at Ofgem; on the boards of a number of sector trade bodies; and as part of strategic working groups seeking solutions to help drive this sector forward.
Over several decades we have advised on many innovative, unique and complex projects, starting with some of the UK’s first commercial onshore windfarms and progressing into advising across a wide variety of mature and emerging technologies. During this time we have also advised on all of the significant reforms to the UK electricity market, which gives us a valuable additional perspective. And because we work closely with a number of the main industry bodies, including RenewableUK and Scottish Renewables, we are part of the conversation about policy and how best to unlock the UK’s potential to become a clean energy superpower.
We advise on the full spectrum of technologies, and on all kinds of projects including clean energy generation, decarbonisation technologies and natural resources. We have worked with clients on projects with a capital expenditure of under £1 million up to and including the largest syndicated deals of over £2.5 billion, often starting from the earliest stages of project development and continuing for the full lifecycle. Those clients include developers, investors and funders, technology innovators and providers, the wider supply chain, industry bodies, and research organisations. We work hard to be an integral part of each client’s team so that our respective strengths are combined to deliver successful projects.
In short, our team has the deep legal expertise, commercial awareness, drive and sectoral knowledge required to help clients across the sector to achieve their goals.
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We also offer sector specialist advice in other areas, including ports and harbours, aviation, employment, immigration, intellectual property, rural and crofting, and health and safety.
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