Peter Wright
Partner
Peter is an energy lawyer who has been advising on international energy and infrastructure projects for more than 20 years. He specialises in power and gas/LNG transactions, advising clients on all aspects of procurement, project development, project finance, regulation and related commercial transactions in the energy sector. Peter joins McCarthy Denning after spending 15 years as a partner at Simmons & Simmons and Squire Patton Boggs.
What we say about Peter
Peter’s experience includes advising host governments, developers and lenders on a variety of energy and infrastructure projects, both in the UK and internationally. His power project experience includes conventional thermal projects, as well as a wide range of renewable energy technologies including hydro, solar, onshore and offshore wind, biomass and energy from waste.
Over the last 15 years his practice has been particularly focussed on Sub-Saharan Africa, and he has worked on projects involving over a dozen African countries, including a number of first-in-country transactions in jurisdictions such as South Africa, Eswatini and Cameroon. For the last 4 years, he has been advising the Government of Eswatini on the preparation for and launch of its first solar IPP procurement.
From 2013-2015, Peter spent two years in Asia helping to set up the Singapore office of an international law firm. In Asia, he was recommended for Projects and Energy by Legal 500 and for Energy & Infrastructure by IFLR1000.
Peter’s gas & LNG experience includes secondments at two leading oil & gas majors, advising on the development, structuring and documentation of proposed LNG import terminals in North America and on the importation of LNG into Europe.
Highlights include advising:
- Government of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and the African Legal Support Facility, a division of the African Development Bank, on the introduction of PPPs into the Swazi energy sector.
- Lemur Holdings as developer on the establishment of the Imaloto independent power and transmission project in Madagascar
- Eswatini Electricity Company on the development of the Lower Maguduza Hydro Power Project
- Regulatory Authority of Bermuda on various regulatory matters
- EDF Energy on Project Mayflower, its proposed disposal of certain operating thermal assets, and on Project Newton, the proposed disposal of a share of its generating portfolio
- Mitsubishi Corporation and TEPCO as developers on the development of the $3bn Facility D IWPP in Qatar, a 2,520 MW CCGT and 136.5 mgpd desalination plant
- Mainstream Renewable Power Limited on its African joint venture arrangements
- Absa Capital and the lenders on three projects being developed as part of Round 3 of South Africa’s renewable energy IPP procurement (REIPPP) process (140MW Khobab, 140 MW Loeriesfontein 2 and 80 MW Noupoort wind farms)
- Absa Capital and the lenders on three projects being developed as part of Round 1 of REIPPP (138MW Jeffrey’s Bay wind project, 50MW De Aar and 50MW Droogfontein solar pv farms)
- A leading international oil & gas supermajor on its acquisition of a minority stake in a European gas fired IPP and the restructuring of the related project bond finance arrangements
- The AES Corporation on the €92.4 million 82 MW Dibamba Independent Power Project
- The AES Corporation on the €263 million 216 MW gas fired Kribi IPP project in Cameroon
- the Government of South Africa in relation to the competitive procurement of two oil-fired OCGT peaking power generation facilities with a combined output of approximately 1,000MW
- A leading European gas company on its UK related LNG imports, including the reservation of regasification terminal capacity and the preparation of their anti-hoarding secondary capacity arrangements
- European LNG buyers on a variety of MSA related issues
- Petronas as developer on the structuring and subsequent development of a North American shale gas to LNG project
- Intra Energy Corporation on its proposed development of 120MW coal-fired mine-mouth power stations in each of Tanzania and Malawi
- SunEdison on the simultaneous acquisition and development of eight land based solar pv projects in the UK and on the separate development of 3 solar pv projects in Japan
- HongKong Electric International Limited and Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited on their acquisition of a 50% stake in the 1,177MW gas fired CCGT Seabank Power Station in the UK
- MVV Umwelt GmbH on the successful closing of the €250m South West Devon Energy from Waste combined heat and power PFI Project in the UK with a captive 25MW energy from waste plant
- IKEA on its acquisition of the 21.25MW Tir Mostyn wind farm in North Wales the 12.25MW Dummuie wind farm in Scotland and the 16MW Bagmoor wind farm in Lincolnshire, UK
- RWE Trading in its capacity as toller and gas supplier on the 384MW Tynagh CCGT Power Project in County Galway, Republic of Ireland.