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Minter Ellison

Power & renewables

With deep industry knowledge that comes from years of involvement at the corporate, project and operational level, and unrivalled depth of expertise, our team delivers comprehensive, integrated solutions across the mining, oil and gas, power and renewables sectors.

From multi-nationals, to investors and sponsors, explorers, developers and producers, to government and public sector entities, we support clients across the full lifecycle of a project and on business-critical issues.

With unique insight of the issues shaping the sector, our specialist advisers help clients develop strategies to manage risk, grasp opportunities for growth and future investments, and deliver investor value.

We provide solutions across the lifecycle of new energy (wind, solar, hydro, bio gas and waste mine gas) and conventional energy projects:

  • Financing and fundraising
  • Project structuring, licensing, regulatory approvals and compliance
  • Development including construction and expansion of infrastructure, tendering and procurement
  • M&A
  • Industry-specific agreements/arrangements (eg, power purchase, supply, connection, transmission, distribution and trading)
  • Carbon and sustainable energy, including renewable energy certificates and carbon credits
  • Embedded networks, distributed generation and battery storage.

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Directions in Public M&A 2017

The trends shaping the public M&A market in Australia

Insights

Technical update

Court decision to have major impact on electricity network revenue
Insight

ACCC inquiry into electricity supply and prices
Insight

Full Federal Court decision in McGlade has significant repercussions for ILUAs

Recent developments

Lead contacts

Clay Wohling

Partner

Neil Gordon

Partner

Simon Scott

Partner

Adam Handley

Partner, National Markets Leader

Brendan Clark

Partner

Paul Shillington

Partner

Allison Warburton

Partner

Matthew Knox

Partner

You might also be interested in:

> Infrastructure

> Doing a deal

> Managing a crisis or dispute

> Transport infrastructure

> Mining

> Oil & gas

Experience

State of Queensland and Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) - merger of Ergon Energy and Energex. This deal was 2017 Energy & Resources Deal of the Year at the Australasian Law Awards

One Sun - advised an international private equity investor on the proposed acquisition of a solar farm project being developed under the ACT solar auction scheme, including advice on the large scale solar feed in tariff regime

Rio Tinto - electricity licensing requirements, project delivery, power purchase agreement and ARENA funding arrangements for the purchase of power from a new solar energy plant constructed at Weipa

REPower - successful bid and negotiation through to contract execution for the supply and install of 64 wind turbines for the Mt Mercer Wind Farm. Other wind farm projects include Capital Wind Farm Pty Ltd, Bald Hills Wind Farm project, Chepstowe, Victoria and Aararat Wind Farms.

Springfield Corporation - development of a solar PV project in a master planned community in Queensland

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) - lead arranger, CBA, on the syndicated facilities to fund ASX-listed amaysim Australia Limited's (Australia’s fourth largest mobile services provider) A$120 million acquisition of Click Energy (Australia's first online energy retailer).

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