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David McGowan

Partner

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David McGowan

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1 West Regent Street
Glasgow
G2 1AP
United Kingdom
Languages English

David McGowan is a partner specialising in corporate and commercial law. He has a wide experience of power projects and oil and gas projects.

David has advised utilities, independent developers, lenders and contractors for over 15 years on conventional and renewable energy projects and oil and gas contracts. David advises on corporate acquisitions and disposals of energy projects as well as the drafting and negotiation of the key project contracts.

With more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across 75 offices globally. Building on 40 years of experience advising on power, oil & gas and renewables through to energy disputes, emerging areas and Energy Transition, CMS is uniquely placed to ensure clients receive advice best suited to their commercial needs and to our collective future.

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“the ability to focus on the bits that matter”.

UK Legal 500, Energy

“the ability to focus on the bits that matter”.

UK Legal 500, Energy

Relevant experience

  • The power purchaser on the PPA for the output from Millennium and Kilbraur Wind Farms.
  • The power purchasers on new PPAs from Barking Power (1000MW CCGT).
  • EDF Energy Renewables on the acquisition of several renewable energy projects including the Fallago Rig and Barmoor wind farm projects.
  • EDF Energy in relation to gas storage projects.
  • Developers of offshore wind projects including Beatrice Offshore Wind Limited and Inch Cape Offshore Wind Limited.
  • Eirgrid in relation to the UK regulatory aspects of the East West electricity interconnector.
  • SSE in relation to the disposal of a package of operational onshore wind farms to Infinis (GBP 173m).
  • Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi on the monetisation of npower's wind farm portfolio (Scottish wind farms). 
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Publications

  • David is listed in Legal Business' publication "Legal Experts" for Energy and Natural Resources.
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Lectures list

  • Speaker, Scottish Arbitration Centre, Energy Arbitration Conference, 2015
  • Speaker, ecoConnect Forum  "Funding the pathways to 2030: Turning Low Carbon Targets into Economic Realities", 2014
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Education

  • 1987 - Dip LP, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 1986 - LLB (Hons) European Law, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
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Expertise

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14/10/2021
Re­ima­gin­ing our En­ergy – Re­new­able Heat
Did you know that heat­ing of build­ing ac­counts for over a third of the UK’s green­house gas emis­sions? That might come as a sur­prise to you, or maybe not, giv­en that it is a bit chilly here.  Heat­ing...
Law-Now Sustainability
04/03/2021
Scot­tish Par­lia­ment passes Heat Net­works (Scot­land) Bill
On 23 Feb­ru­ary 2021, the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment un­an­im­ously agreed to pass the Heat Net­works (Scot­land) Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill sets out a long-awaited reg­u­lat­ory frame­work for the grow­ing num­ber...
Law-Now Sustainability
19/09/2018
Heat net­works mar­ket study – next steps 
The heat net­work sec­tor is at early stage in its de­vel­op­ment; today, heat net­works provide around 2% of UK build­ings’ heat de­mand. However, around 18% of UK heat will need to come from heat net­works...
Law-Now
29/01/2018
Trans­port In­fra­struc­ture and Loc­al Au­thor­it­ies
The po­ten­tial role of loc­al au­thor­it­ies in the area of in­tel­li­gent travel has been in the news again over the last week, fol­low­ing the Of­fice for Low Emis­sion Vehicles (OLEV) pub­lic­a­tion of up­dated guid­ance...
Law-Now
23/12/2016
Con­tracts for Dif­fer­ence Round 2: what next for is­land wind in Scot­land?
In Novem­ber 2016, the UK Gov­ern­ment re­leased de­tails of the second Con­tracts for Dif­fer­ence (“CfD”) auc­tion. £290m of gov­ern­ment-backed con­tracts will be up for grabs by de­velopers of re­new­able en­ergy...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
10/05/2016
En­ergy Stor­age: Op­por­tun­it­ies and Chal­lenges (Ed­in­burgh)
The CMS En­ergy team in Ed­in­burgh is host­ing an even­ing sem­in­ar on “En­ergy Stor­age: Op­por­tun­it­ies and Chal­lenges” on Tues­day 10 May at our Saltire Court of­fices.En­ergy stor­age is a “hot top­ic”...
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