Partner

Claire Wallis

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English

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Claire is a real estate Partner focusing exclusively on energy and renewables. She has extensive experience advising a variety of energy clients on the real estate aspects of a broad range of energy projects including wind farms (both onshore and offshore), battery storage projects, grid stabilisation developments, solar farms and hydro schemes. Her experience includes a number of Scotland’s most significant projects, for example advising Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited on securing the onshore land rights for Beatrice offshore windfarm.

Claire has secondment experience with both SSE Renewables Developments (UK) Limited and Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd.

Awards & Recognitions

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"Clients are particularly impressed by the quietly efficient Claire Wallis for renewables projects."

Legal 500
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"a name to note at senior associate level for Energy (excluding oil and gas)."

Legal 500, 2018

Relevant experience

SSE Renewables on a number of projects including securing the land rights for Strathy North and Strathy South Windfarms in the north of Scotland including securing rights over the turbine delivery route for Strathy South Windfarm, on all land agreements for Cloiche Windfarm on the Glendoe and Garrogie Estates, adjacent to the operational Stronelairg Windfarm and on the acquisition of Aberarder onshore wind farm project and the subsequent exercise of the option agreements to put the leases in place.
ESB on the land agreements for West Torrisdale Windfarm located in Argyll and Bute, on the Kintyre peninsula and on acquiring a 50% stake in Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm.
ScottishPower Renewables on the land rights for its 3GW Marram floating ScotWind project.
Seagreen Phase 1 OFTO, a consortium of Equitix and Kyuden Group, in relation to the property aspects of the acquisition of the Offshore Transmission Assets of the Seagreen Phase 1 Offshore Wind Farm from Seagreen Wind Energy Limited, a joint venture owned by SSE Renewables, TotalEnergies and PTTEP.
Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm Limited on the land rights, CPO and the subsequent financing of Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm.
Intergen on the property aspects for the acquisition and development of their Scottish battery storage sites at Kilmarnock, Eccles and New Deer.
Green BESS Developments (UK) Limited in respect of all real estate matters relating to the development of the Eccles and Kilmarnock battery storage projects in Scotland and in relation to Green BESS Developments (UK) Limited’s partnership with Matrix Renewables to take forward the development of the projects.
Field Energy on the property aspects of the acquisition, financing and development of a portfolio of battery storage projects (circa 150MW), including the Auchteraw site.

Education

2003 – Dip LP, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2002 – Law, LLB (Hons), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Practice Areas

Real Estate Real Estate Development Real Estate Energy

sectors

Energy & Climate Change

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