Ben Charles
Associate London
Ben is an associate in the London Projects Group.
Ben specialises in banking and project finance transactions in the renewable energy and oil and gas sectors, acting for financial institutions and borrowers both domestically and internationally.
Since joining the firm, Ben has worked in the firm’s London and Athens offices.
- Advising the lenders to DIF Capital Partners, via its DIF Infrastructure VII fund, on the financing of a 540 MW portfolio of co-located UK solar generation and battery storage assets comprising seven ready-to-build sites.
- Advising BW Energy on an up to US$300 new international reserve-based lending facility. The facility will be used initially to further finance and develop the Dussafu licence offshore Gabon.
- Advising a group of lenders on the £350m refinancing of West Burton Energy’s UK Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (“CCGT”) and 49 MW battery storage facility located in Nottinghamshire, UK. This is the largest UK gas generation project in over a decade.
Education
- 2019 – 2020 · Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School
- 2015 – 2018 · Law, Keble College, Oxford
memberships and associations
- Law Society of England and Wales
- PressWFW advises lenders on Cleve Hill project financing
- PressWFW advises lenders on €488m financing of Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm
- AwardWFW deals win at IJGlobal Awards 2023
- PressWFW advises lenders on £350m UK gas generation project refinancing
- PressWFW advises lenders on 540 MW solar and battery storage portfolio financing
