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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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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 UK...
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...
09/07/2020
CMS en­joys highest num­ber of UK wind ex­perts ranked in Leg­al Power List...
CMS UK is pleased to an­nounce that three of the firm’s law­yers have been named in A Word About Wind’s Leg­al Power List 2020. The Leg­al Power List ranks the top 100 most in­flu­en­tial law­yers work­ing...
11/05/2020
CMS ad­vises lenders to Green In­vest­ment Group on a land­mark port­fo­lio fin­an­cing...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised a large club of in­ter­na­tion­al com­mer­cial banks in re­la­tion to the pro­ject fin­an­cing fa­cil­it­ies for a 170 MW port­fo­lio of on­shore wind farms in Sweden and Nor­way...