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Doug Land

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Doug Land

Partner

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Doug Land is a partner in our Corporate group specialising in energy and infrastructure acquisitions, disposals, equity investments, joint ventures and reorganisations. Doug is team leader for our Energy & Infrastructure transactions team.

Doug has focused on advising corporates and financial sponsors in the energy and infrastructure sectors for over 25 years. A significant amount of this work has been in the clean energy sector and he has advised on numerous transactions and projects in respect of offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, battery storage, hydrogen production, EV charging, energy storage and demand side response. Across the energy sector more generally, Doug has advised on transactions involving electricity transmission and distribution, gas transmission, distribution and storage, gas peakers, smart metering, IGTs and water and across the infrastructure sector more generally, Doug has advised on transactions involving ferries, telecoms, streetlighting, aerospace and defence.

Doug is a part of the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice, which has more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners. The practice works across 75 offices and builds on 40 years of experience advising on power, oil & gas and renewables.

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Relevant experience

  • SSE on the GBP 1.228bn sale of a 33.3% stake in SGN to OTPP and Brookfield.
  • Macquarie Asset Management and BCI on their agreement to acquire a 60% stake in National Grid’s UK gas transmission and metering business for an implied enterprise value of GBP 9.6bn.
  • SSE on its acquisition of a 50% interest in the proposed H2NorthEast 1GW CCUS enabled blue hydrogen production facility from Kellas.
  • National Grid and SSE on the joint venture arrangements for the Eastern Link 2GW HVDC electrical superhighway cable link between Peterhead and Drax.
  • SSE on the GBP 350m sale of a 25.1% stake in the Walney offshore wind farm to Greencoat.
  • EDF Renewables on the sale of a 49% interest in the Blyth offshore wind farm to Tenaga Nasional Berhad.
  • Re:cap Global Investors on the acquisition of the 80MW Scurf Dyke solar farm from BayWa.
  • SSE on the acquisition of a 400MW portfolio of early-stage projects in Poland from developer IBC Solar.
  • Gridserve on the acquisition of the Electric Highway, the motorway EV charging network, from Ecotricity.
  • SSE on the up to GBP 380m sale to Infracapital of a 50% stake in Neos Networks.
  • InstaVolt, the EV charging company, on investments by Zouk Capital and the Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund.
  • EDF Renewables on the acquisition of a majority stake in the proposed 350MW Longfield Solar Farm.
  • Marguerite on the sale of its 29.06% interest in AS Conexus Baltic Grid, the gas transmission and storage operator in Latvia to MM Capital.
  • SSE on the GBP 635m sale to Greencoat of a 49.9% stake in the Dunmaglass and Stronelairg onshore wind farms.
  • J-Power and DBJ on the acquisition of a 25% stake in the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.
  • SSE on the GBP 624m sale to GLIL and Greencoat of stakes totalling 49.9% in the 523MW Clyde onshore wind farm.
  • Arjun Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of Indigo Pipelines, the independent gas transporter, from SEP.
  • SSE on the GBP 621m sale to ADIA of a 16.7% stake in SGN.
  • Forsa Energy on the acquisition of a portfolio of six gas fired reserve power projects.
  • EDF Renewables on the acquisition of the 177MW Dorenell onshore wind farm.
  • Arjun Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of Enviromena, the solar developer.
  • A consortium member on the acquisition of Red Funnel ferries from Infracapital.
  • EDF Renewables on the acquisition of a development portfolio of wind farms from Partnerships for Renewables.
  • SSE on the sale of 11 PFI street lighting projects to Equitix and DIF.
  • Anesco on the acquisition of four battery storage assets from Green Hedge.
  • A bidder on the proposed acquisition of Calvin Capital, the meter asset provider, from Infracapital.
  • ADIA on the sale of the HCI Hospital and Beardmore Hotel to the NHS.
  • EDF Renewables on the acquisition from Duke Energy and Statkraft of the Barmoor onshore wind farm.
  • SSE, OMERS and OTTP on the acquisition of SGN from National Grid for GBP 3.2bn.
  • KiWi Power on an investment by ENGIE.
  • Management on investments by SEP and CBPE Capital in Anesco.
  • Synnovia plc on the acquisition of Synpac and on placings to fund the acquisitions of Shengli and Flexipol.
  • Grupo Antolin on the acquisition of CML from JP Morgan, Cerberus and others.
  • Sohonet, the media network provider, on an investment by FF&P Private Equity.
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25/10/2022
CMS advises SSE Renewables on acquisition of 49.9MW wind farm
International law firm CMS has advised leading renewable energy developer and operator, SSE Renewables (SSE), on the acquisition of the Aberarder wind farm project in Strathnairn near Inverness, Scotland...
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04/04/2022
CMS advises a Consortium on acquisition of 60% stake in National Grid gas...
International law firm CMS has advised a Consortium comprising Macquarie Asset Management, a global asset manager and the world’s largest infrastructure manager, and British Columbia Investment Management...
News
21/10/2021
CMS advises EDF Renewables UK on new partnership with VANTAGE RE
International law firm CMS has advised EDF Renewables UK, a subsidiary of the French utility company, Électricité de France (EDF), on its strategic partnership with Vantage RE Ltd (Vantage RE), a wholly-owned...
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01/09/2021
CMS advises SSE on £1.225bn sale of stake in SGN
International law firm CMS has advised SSE on the sale of its entire 33.3% stake in gas distribution operator Scotia Gas Networks Ltd (SGN) to a consortium comprising existing SGN shareholder Ontario...
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01/07/2021
CMS advises GRIDSERVE on acquisition of the Electric Highway
International law CMS has advised GRIDSERVE, a developer and operator of clean energy solutions for critical power infrastructure, on its acquisition of the Electric Highway from green energy company...
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25/02/2020
CMS reappointed to SSE legal panel
International law firm CMS has been reappointed to the panel of FTSE 100 listed, SSE plc for UK legal services. The panel goes live in March and will run for a three-year period, with an option to extend...
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01/02/2019
CMS advises SSE on £635m disposal of stake in two wind farms
International law firm CMS has advised SSE on the sale of a 49.9% stake in its Stronelairg and Dunmaglass wind farms to Greencoat UK Wind Plc in partnership with a major UK pension fund whose investment...
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16/07/2018
ECM Market Review June 2018
The CMS ECM Market Review is a summary of recent events in some of the key sectors that we focus on. It is now just over a year since the merger which created CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and its...
Publication
17/10/2016
CMS advises SSE plc on the £621m sale of a 16.7% stake in Scotia Gas Networks
CMS has advised SSE plc (“SSE”) on the signing of agreements for the disposal of 16.7% of Scotia Gas Networks Limited (“SGN”) to wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority...
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15/03/2016
CMS advises SSE plc on the £355m sale of a 49.9% stake in Clyde Wind Farm
CMS has advised SSE plc (“SSE”) on the signing of agreements for the disposal of 49.9% of its operational 349.6MW Clyde Wind Farm to Greencoat UK Wind Plc (“UKW”) and GMPF & LPFA In­fra­struc­ture...
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15/03/2016
CMS advises SSE plc on the £355m sale of a 49.9% stake in Clyde Wind Farm
CMS has advised SSE plc (“SSE”) on the signing of agreements for the disposal of 49.9% of its operational 349.6MW Clyde Wind Farm to Greencoat UK Wind Plc and GMPF & LPFA Infrastructure LLP, a partnership...
Deals
12/11/2014
CMS advises SSE on £326.4m street lighting disposal to Equitix
CMS has advised SSE plc (“SSE”) on the completion of a sale to Equitix Infrastructure 3 Limited (“Equitix”), of its 100% equity interest in the special purpose entities (SPEs) established in England...
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