Overview

Corvane Ryle's Energy & Infrastructure practice advises developers, sponsors, utilities, lenders and corporate buyers of power on the projects and businesses that drive the energy transition. We act on acquisitions, development, financing and operations across solar, wind, storage, hydrogen, transmission, gas and conventional power, and on the digital and transport infrastructure that sits alongside them.

Demand for electricity is rising, driven in part by data centers and artificial intelligence. Customers are signing long-term power purchase agreements, building behind-the-meter generation and asking utilities for new capacity, and investors are putting capital into the grid. We structure power purchase agreements, interconnection arrangements, offtake and capacity reservations, and the financings behind them, and we work with our Artificial Intelligence and Technology Transactions lawyers on the infrastructure that powers compute.

Policy and regulation shape every project. We advise on federal and state permitting, tax credit eligibility, tariffs on equipment and the rules of regional transmission organizations, and in Europe on the EU's energy frameworks, grid connection queues and the UK's regulated asset base models. Our Tax lawyers structure credit transfers and tax equity, and our Banking & Private Credit lawyers lead project financings.

Infrastructure investors, including pension funds and sovereign investors, rely on us for acquisitions and co-investments in ports, pipelines, airports, fiber and utilities. We advise on the regulatory approvals and concessions that make such investments possible, and on the disputes that sometimes follow.

Isabelle Duchamp-Moore, based in London, leads the practice, working with partners in New York, Houston, Chicago, Frankfurt and Singapore. Our clients include Solenne Energy and Tidewater Logistics.

Key lawyers

Our energy and infrastructure team works across development, finance, tax and regulatory advice.

• Isabelle Duchamp-Moore, Partner, London
• Arjun Mehra-Collins, Partner, New York

Representative experience

• Advised Solenne Energy on the financing of a 900 MW solar portfolio.
• Represented a hyperscale cloud provider in structuring a portfolio of long-term power purchase agreements.
• Advised Tidewater Logistics on the acquisition of a port terminal operator.
• Represented a lender group in a US$1.1 billion offshore wind construction financing.
• Advised a sponsor on the sale of a stake in a battery storage platform.
• Counseled a utility on a transmission investment partnership with an infrastructure fund.
• Advised Ashgrove Motors on an EV battery manufacturing joint venture.