Marianne is counsel in the London Regulatory, Public Law & Competition TEAM.
Marianne’s practice includes advising on a broad range of energy matters including energy project development, energy infrastructure and renewable technologies, from corporate and commercial transactions to compliance with regulatory requirements and power market restructures.
Marianne is an Oxford law graduate who worked in-house for Ofgem’s Offshore Transmission legal team.
- 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 CREDITAS Group on its acquisition of InterGen Projects (UK) Limited and its UK business from InterGen’s parent company. The acquisition included three operational CCGT plants and one OCGT plant with a combined capacity of 2,800 MW as well as a 450 MW battery storage project.
- Advising Lightsource bp on all grid connection-related aspects of its £64.3m disposal of the 100 MW Camden solar PV portfolio in the UK to NextEnergy Solar Fund.
- Advising InfraRed Capital Partners Limited, investment manager to The Renewables Infrastructure Group (“TRIG”), on the regulatory aspects of TRIG’s acquisition of a 17.5% equity interest in the Beatrice offshore wind farm from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners).
- Advising global solar developer Lightsource bp on the sale of a portfolio of 58 operational assets to a consortium comprising GLIL Infrastructure and Bluefield Solar Income Fund.
Education
- 2006-2007 College of Law, Moorgate, London Legal Practice Course
- 2000-2003 St Hilda’s College, Oxford University BA (Hons.) Jurisprudence
Memberships and Associations
- Law Society of England & Wales
- PressWFW advises Vattenfall on sale of Norfolk Boreas and Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm projects to RWE
- PressWFW advises Lightsource bp on sale of 58 operational solar parks
- ArticleEnergy Act 2023: Enabling CCUS
- ArticleBackground to the Energy Act 2023: REMA – Revolution, not evolution
- ArticleEnergy Act 2023 – a decade in the making