Infrastructure & Project Finance

What is involved?

We advise our clients at all stages of the project lifecycle including:

• Structuring and financing ‘greenfield’ infrastructure projects and on managing operational projects.
• Infrastructure planning, including Development Consent Orders for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and other consenting regimes.
• Procurement, construction, operation and exit strategy.
• Energy and Waste projects, including Heat Networks.
• PFI handback advice for procuring authorities, equity investors and FM contractors.
• All aspects of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure projects.

Our team has advised on some of the largest and most complex transactions to come to the market, with an aggregate value in excess of £14 billion. Whether you are a promoter, sponsor, lender, contractor, key public authority stakeholder, affected land owner or objector, we are well placed to assist you.

As a firm, we have many years’ experience working with owners, managers, funders, and procuring authorities in managing operational projects across a broad range of sectors.

Why choose Freeths?

• We are trusted by a number of the leading UK infrastructure funds and other key stakeholders to advise them on high profile, complex matters. We believe that there is no better endorsement of our capabilities than our client base
• We have the strength and depth of resource, market knowledge and experience required to bring transactions to a close or achieve your objectives in a cost-effective and efficient manner
• Our team members have top level experience of advising on infrastructure projects, and a thorough understanding of project and finance documentation, infrastructure planning, compulsory purchase and compensation law and how best to approach issues from the perspective of all stakeholders
• You can trust us to be commercially-minded, readily accessible and available to provide clear solutions

Our experience includes:

Structuring, financing and managing operational projects:

• Variations and change management
• Market testing and benchmarking
• Refinancings
• Equity restructurings
• PFI handback schemes and their termination
• Secondary market transactions
• Data protection, freedom of information and confidentiality issues
• Adjudications, mediations and settlements
• Employment and HR issues
• Procurement and public law issues

Infrastructure planning:

• Development Consent Order applications for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
• Compulsory purchase orders and compensation
• Transport and Work Act Orders
• Hybrid Bills