17 April 2013
Legal Adviser of the Year for Renewables. The Firm has worked on some of the biggest renewables deals globally in the past year, ranging from participating in a significant number of the successful Round 1 REIPPP deals in South Africa, to advising the lenders on the US$693 million financing of a 396MW Mareña Renovables wind farm in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and acting for the borrowers on the limited recourse financing of a 24.8% stake in the Walney I & II offshore wind farms in the UK. Clifford Chance was also involved in three transactions that won Deal of the Year at the IJ Awards: Deal of the Year – Power: Azito Gas-fired Power Plant Expansion (Côte d'Ivoire) Deal of the Year – Transport: Eurasia Tunnel PPP (Bosphorus Tunnel, Turkey) Acquisition of the Year – Energy: Open Grid Europe (Germany). Global (all regions)