Prospect Law

Firm Details

Directors: Edward de la Billiere, Edmund Robb

Number of partners: 2

Number of other UK fee-earners: 40

Offices: London, Castle Donington

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German

Firm Overview

Prospect Law specialises in the energy sector. Founded in 2010, it is owned and managed by barristers and solicitors, and is complemented by the input of its own team of technical experts who include economists, FCA accredited insurance professionals, electrical engineers and power grid experts. Prospect Law is seen as a ground-breaking firm with a particularly impressive track record of both contentious and non-contentious work in the energy sector. It has a strong reputation for offering regulatory and development advice in the sector on behalf of governments and private developers, and also for challenging energy regulatory bodies and government departments.

Main Areas of Practice

Renewable Energy has been at the heart of Prospect Law’s work since the firm was first established in 2010. Initially the firm advised on purely legal issues and for that work very quickly won awards for its pioneering and effective approach to development proposals.

Now Prospect Law advises on issues arising across the full range of its multi-disciplinary skillsets including commercial and contract advice, insurance and risk management, economics and financing, grid connections, technical feasibility studies, and a specialist training arm. Clients range from Middle East Governments through to banks, developers and private individuals.

Examples of work we have completed include:

1. Advising on a successful planning application and associated High Court challenge for an Energy from Waste plant in the middle of a City.

2. Advising on the financing of wind and solar farms on mainland Europe using sharia-compliant funds.

3. Advising on the development of cost-effective insurance ‘pools’ for the renewables sector.

4. Advising a Government on the pricing of its renewable energy electricity.

5. Advising a UK solar developer on the development and onward sale to pension funds of various ground based solar facilities across the UK.

Other Legal Practice Areas:

Corporate and Commercial: Oliver Williams [email protected]

Planning and Dispute Resolution: Edmund Robb [email protected]

Environmental Law: Andrew Waite [email protected]

Property Law: Gemma Shore [email protected]

Employment Law: Philippa Wood [email protected]

Immigration Law: Alice Boyle [email protected]

Regulatory Law: Edward de la Billiere [email protected]

Construction Law: John Blackshaw [email protected]

Associated Areas:

As well as renewable energy, Prospect Law advises on a range of other areas linked to its clean tech expertise. These include:

Nuclear Law: Prospect Law’s nuclear specialists advise UK and international clients on the full range of nuclear related matters from nuclear new build to decommissioning projects including the modelling and establishment of Decommissioning Trust Funds. Recent instructions have included advising on risk management under European legislation, nuclear fusion developments in the UK, and the protection of Intellectual Property for innovative radioactive waste storage facilities. The firm also advises on the

legal and technical aspects of the transportation, storage, security and treatment of radioactive substances. The firm’s lawyers have on several occasions been commended by the United States Department of the Environment for work in facilitating intergovernmental discussions on financing nuclear new builds and decommissioning.

Key Contact: Claire Harvey [email protected]

Maritime, International Trade and Insurance Law: Prospect Law advises UK and overseas corporate clients on dry shipping matters including charterparties, bills of lading, letters of credit, bank guarantees and undertakings, and other shipping and banking documents; on Admiralty issues; on the sale and purchase of ships and other vessels including buying, selling, and scrapping, and on ship and offshore construction; on marine and non-marine insurance and reinsurance; on public international law aspects of shipping including territorial disputes, embargoes and maritime blockades, marine pollution and environmental disasters; on dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration and mediation; and on drafting contractual documents for shipping and trading ventures.

Key Contacts:

Moray Hughes: [email protected]

Reina Maria van Pallandt: [email protected]

Offices

London Office:

23 Berkeley Square

London, W1J 6HE

Tel: +44 (0)20 7947 5354

Email: [email protected]

Midlands Office:

Regus House, Herald Way, Pegasus Business Park, Castle Donington

Derbyshire, DE74 2TZ

Tel: +44 (0) 207947 5354

Email: [email protected]