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Nicholas Ross-McCall

Partner

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

Nick Ross-McCall is a partner with over fifteen years’ experience representing sponsors and lenders on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects globally. He focuses on:

  • Power projects, both renewables/green energy and thermal (including nuclear).
  • Upstream oil and gas, including reserve based lending where he has advised on deals including assets in most of the major oil & gas basins.

Nick also has significant experience across the midstream and downstream oil and gas sectors (including LNG, pipelines and petchems), of oil & gas M&A and commercial work (including field decommissioning arrangements), and of infrastructure projects (including PFI/PPP). He was seconded to the project finance team of a leading commercial bank in 2011-2.

Nick’s clients include energy project sponsors/developers, oil & gas majors and independents (including private equity backed vehicles), and commercial and international development banks. He has cutting edge experience of all the major debt finance solutions available to fund energy projects and E&P companies including structured/project finance facilities, acquisition finance, portfolio financings, holdco finance, corporate and reserve based senior facilities, junior debt, high yield/convertible/Norwegian bonds, prepayment facilities, export credit finance and other commodities trading/finance. He also has expertise in multi-source financings and Islamic finance.

Nick was also featured in A Word About Wind’s Legal Power List, which sets out the top 100 lawyers globally (covering both private practice and in-house counsel) working in the wind sector.

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“superb…capable of leading a complex project finance transaction”.

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Publications

  • Nick has written extensively on energy finance matters with over ten externally published works including chapters on upstream finance in several practitioners’ guides (in particular the upstream finance chapter in the current edition of Daintith and Willoughby, the leading UKCS legal practitioners’ guide). Nick has also written on oil & gas JOAs and decommissioning, LNG trading, the Incoterms and M&A structures in oil & gas transactions. He presents regularly at conferences.
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Education

  • 2002 – M.A. (Law) (first class honours), Oxford University
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15/03/2024
CMS advises on UK BESS financing
International law firm CMS has advised Harmony Energy Income Trust plc (HEIT), which invests in battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Great Britain, in relation to the refinancing of its existing debt...
20/06/2023
CMS closes first of a kind BESS Solar Co-location Project Financing
International law firm CMS has advised DIF Capital Partners (DIF) on the project financing of a 720MW co-located solar generation and battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio in the UK. DIF, together...
23/02/2023
CMS advises on UK battery storage debt financing
International law firm CMS has advised Harmony Energy Income Trust plc (HEIT), an investment company that invests in battery energy storage systems in the UK, in relation to an amendment and restatement...
11/01/2023
CMS advises on the sale of a 170 MW onshore windfarm portfolio
International law firm CMS has advised a syndicate of international commercial banks as creditors in relation to the sale of a 170 MW onshore windfarm portfolio held by Nordic Renewable Power Holding...
29/09/2022
CMS closes series of high-profile battery storage deals
International law firm CMS has closed five significant battery storage deals in recent months, reinforcing the firm’s market-leading position in this space.  These in­clude: Ad­vising Zenobē on two...
05/08/2022
CMS advises consortium on acquisition of interest in world’s largest offshore...
International law firm CMS has advised a consortium comprised of GLIL Infrastructure and Octopus Energy Group on its agreement to acquire a 12.5% interest in the Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm from Global...
28/06/2022
CMS advises on significant UK battery storage financing
International law firm CMS has advised Harmony Energy Income Trust plc (the “Company”), an externally managed company that invests in energy storage assets in Great Britain, in relation to a £60,000,000...
29/04/2022
In with the old, out with the new – an alternative finance model for...
On 31 March 2022 the Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022 (the “Act”) came into force. The purpose of the Act is to make financial investment in nuclear power stations more attractive for private...
20/04/2022
CMS advises senior lenders to Capman Infra and Red Rock Power on  large...
International law firm CMS has advised the senior lenders in respect of the €180million refinancing of the 241MW Överturingen operational wind farm in central Sweden, owned by an equal joint venture...
13/10/2021
CMS advises on project financing of significant UK utility-scale solar...
International law firm CMS has advised Rabobank in relation to the project financing of a subsidy-free utility-scale solar PV project in the UK, developed by:Cero Generation (Cero), a portfolio company...
21/06/2021
CMS advises E Energija Group and GE on the ECA backed financing of a landmark...
International law firm CMS has advised E energija group and GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS) as sponsors in relation to the financing of the E energija Telšiai 68.9 MW onshore wind farm in Lithuania...
23/12/2020
CMS advises in relation to sale of a further 50% stake in Överturingen...
International law firm CMS has advised Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB), KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH (KfW) and Denmark’s Export Credit Agency (EKF) as creditors in relation...