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James Wright
Senior Associate

James Wright

Languages
  • English

James is a senior associate in the Energy & Climate Change Team at CMS. He advises clients across the electricity, gas and water sectors in areas including regulatory matters, commercial transactions and projects. 

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.

Relevant experience

  • Various clients on regulation of the Capacity Market, the Renewables Obligation and Feed in Tariffs and the impact of these regulations on generation portfolio transactions.
  • Various overseas clients on electricity and gas market reform.
  • Electricity interconnector developers on various commercial and construction issues.
  • While on secondment to a client in the renewable generation sector, on various commercial and corporate transactions.
  • Various utilities in relation to land rights for electricity and gas apparatus.

Education

  • 2014 – MA (Cantab), Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Insights by James

Spring 2026 update on further Demand Connection Reform for Data Centres and other Large Energy Users

18 Mar 2026 12 min read

Connecting to UK CCUS Clusters: Access to Transportation and Storage Infrastructure

09 Dec 2025 6 min read

Once shaken, now stirred: Winter 2025 power update for data centres and other large energy users

27 Nov 2025 14 min read

Nobody expects the In(dependent Water) Commission: major shakeup of water regulation and what it may imply for other regulated sectors

31 Jul 2025 13 min read
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