Green Economy

The Green Economy is a critical component of our market-leading ESG practice, and important matters we have worked on include:

• Advising in separate processes the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company TAQA and the Chinese Investment Corporation on their contemplated acquisitions of AES’s worldwide wind-power portfolio (including a 156 MW wind-power plant in Bulgaria).
• Advising AES Horizons on its development, construction, and operation of a new 670 MW lignite-fired thermal power plant.
• Advising the Bulgarian Government on its privatization of three thermal power plants in Bulgaria.
• Advising the China Development Bank on the project financing of portfolios of photovoltaic power plants in Bulgaria developed by Sky Solar and Chint Solar.
• Advising the Chevron Corporation on its gas-exploration activities in Bulgaria.
• Advising Contour Global L.P. on its acquisition of Enel’s 908 MW lignite-fired thermal power plant.
• Advising Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH on the project financing of a wind power plant in Bulgaria.
• Advising Gamesa Energy on its acquisition of a 30 MW wind power plant then under development.
• Assisting Mitsui & Co with its acquisition, construction, and operation of a photovoltaic power plant.
• Advising Slovakia’s Postova Banka on its project financing of a 20 MW photovoltaic power plant project.
• Assisting Raiffeisen Energy & Environment with its acquisition, development, construction, operation, and sale of wind power projects.
• Advising Scatec Solar on its acquisition and development of a photovoltaic power project.
• Advising Statkraft Markets on its acquisition and subsequent sale of two wind power projects.
• Advising STEAG on its proposed acquisition of a 560 MW-portfolio of wind power plants from Germany’s Enertrag.
• Advising The Royal Bank of Scotland on the bridge financing for an AES 156 MW wind power plant project.
• Advising Toshiba on its entrance into a joint venture with a large European energy company for the purposes of acquiring, developing, constructing, and operating photovoltaic power plants.
• Helping VERBUND protect its rights and interests related to the grid interconnection of a wind power plant.
• Advising VMWare Bulgaria – part of the US’s VMware Inc. cloud-computing company – on its efforts to obtain electricity from renewable sources for its office at Sofia’s Garitage Park residential and business complex.