Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance tops Clean Energy Pipeline League Table

Clifford Chance has performed strongly in the influential Clean Energy Pipeline Global League Tables, taking the top spot for clean energy M&A in 2017 and ranking second in the Project Finance table measured by deal credit.

As part of its annual rankings, Clean Energy Pipeline reports that last year Clifford Chance advised on five high-profile renewables transactions, taking its M&A deal credit to over $9.2 billion and ensuring first place in the M&A Legal Advisers table. The firm was also ranked second in the Project Finance Legal Advisers table by deal credit after advising on over $6.4 billion of clean energy transactions.

James Pay, global head of Clifford Chance's Renewables Group comments: "These results highlight Clifford Chance's leading role in the global growth of the renewables sector. We are seeing more renewables deals than ever across a growing number of jurisdictions and we look forward to building on these results in 2018."

In 2017, Clifford Chance worked on several high-profile deals, including advising:

• Danish pension funds PFA and PKA on their joint acquisition of a £2bn 50% stake in the 659MW Walney Extension offshore wind project
  
• An energy consortium on the acquisition of Chevron’s geothermal assets in South East Asia
  
• AELA Group on portfolio financing for the development of three wind farms in Chile.