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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, joint ventures and reorganisations.

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

Doug is 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 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.
  • 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.The...
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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...
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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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