Clean Energy League Tables 2021: Taylor Wessing among the Top 5

For the third year in a row, the firm's international Energy & Infrastructure team improved its ranking in the Clean Energy League Tables: by number of transactions, the team ranked fourth in the M&A deals category, while it also secured a place in the top 20 in the project finance category.

In 2019, Taylor Wessing ranked already in the top 10 of the aforementioned categories. The renewed improvement in the ranking documents the successful cooperation with high-profile clients across jurisdictions. It also shows that the firm's legal experts including their cross-border cooperation on the global stage are once again among the benchmark legal advisers for "Clean Energy".

"The past year has gone very well for our international Energy & Infrastructure team despite the Corona-related difficulties," comments Hamburg partner and head of the international Energy & Infrastructure group Carsten Bartholl on the ranking. "Together, we were again very successful for our clients on clean energy projects, and not only in Europe, but also on deals in Australia, the US, Africa and the South Pacific."

In addition to Carsten Bartholl, the core team of the international Energy & Infrastructure group includes the Corporate / M&A experts and partners Tillmann Pfeifer (Hamburg), Peter Hellich (Munich), Nicolas de Witt (Paris), Peter Solt (Vienna), Dominik FitzPatrick (London) and Jeroen Louwers (Eindhoven), Janina Pochhammer (partner Projects, Energy & Infrastructure)  André Lippert (salary partner energy law) and Markus Böhme (salary partner energy law) and the partner and expert for Public Project Finance & Energy, Sophie Pignon (Paris).

About Clean Energy League Tables

The Clean Energy League Tables is an international ranking by the industry platform Clean Energy Pipeline of the most active law firms in the field of renewable energies. The measure is the number of qualified transactions in the following sub-sectors: advanced materials and technologies, biofuels, biomass, clean coal, energy efficiency, environmental services and remediation, geothermal energy, clean transport, hydropower, hydrogen generation, marine environment, microgeneration, recycling and waste, solar energy, sustainable agriculture, water and wastewater treatment and wind.

The full report including the Clean Energy League Tables 2021 is available here.