Henry Stewart
Partner London
Henry is a Partner in and Co-Head of the Global Energy Group as well as head of the London Projects Group.
Henry has extensive finance, commercial and corporate experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors and has advised on a large number of landmark transactions in the renewables sector.
Henry continues to win mandates from leading banks, funds and sponsors and is considered by the market to be a leading lawyer for renewables transactions in Europe and emerging markets.
He is recognised as such by leading legal directories Chambers UK, Legal 500 UK and IFLR 1000. In 2019, Chambers reported clients as saying “he’s very commercial and very good at explaining things, conveying both the commercial and legal implications”.
Henry has practised in London and Singapore.
- Advising Green Investment Group as sponsor on the construction financing of an onshore wind farm portfolio in Sweden and Norway with a total installed capacity of 170 MW.
- Advising Nord/LB on financing the 307 MW Hästkullen wind farm and the 167 MW Björnlandhöjden wind farm, together one of Europe’s largest onshore wind clusters, which included one of Europe’s largest onshore wind corporate PPAs.
- Advising Canadian Solar on its sale of a 142 MW solar PV portfolio with an enterprise value of c. £191.2m to Greencoat Solar Assets II Ltd, a fund managed by Greencoat Capital.
- Advising RBS and MUFG among others in relation to the OFTO tranche for the award winning £1.3bn financing for PKA and PFA’s acquisition of 50% of the 659 MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm.
- Advising Lightsource BP on its partnership platform with UK Climate Investments to fund the development, acquisition and ownership of large-scale solar assets in India, together with offshore elements of the financing of a 60 MWp seed project.
memberships & associations
- Law Society of England and Wales
- PressWFW builds on top energy and infrastructure league table rankings in Q1 2021
- PressWFW makes major gains in Clean Energy Pipeline 2021 tables
- PressWFW advises Lightsource bp on disposal of UK Camden solar PV portfolio to NESF
- PressMore superb Energy and Infrastructure league table results in FY 2020
- EventMerchant Risk and the growth of Corporate PPAs in Greece