Partner

Rowena van de Grampel

Languages

English

Rowena is a partner in the Energy Finance team with over 20 years’ of first class experience representing clients in both emerging and developed markets on energy and infrastructure projects. Rowena’s practice encompasses:

Decarbonisation projects – carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Clean energy projects - hydrogen, offshore wind and nuclear.
Energy storage - BESS and LDES.
Interconnectors.
Thermal power.
Oil and gas - complex transactions in the upstream oil and gas sector as well as extensive experience across the midstream and downstream oil and gas sectors including LNG, pipelines and petrochemicals.

Rowena’s clients include borrowers, sponsors, corporates, private equity houses, commodity traders, governments, commercial lenders, development and international financial institutions and export credit agencies, and is at the forefront of energy transition work.

Whilst a specialist in project finance, Rowena’s experience also covers a wide range of finance products in the energy finance space including hybrid transactions blending aspects of reserve based lending and project finance, mezzanine financings, prepayment facilities linked to off-take arrangements, sovereign financings, corporate lending and restructurings, hybrid capital instruments and ECA products such as buyer credit facilities and UKEF’s Export Development Guarantee programme.

Rowena is known for her work on large-scale, complex, first-of-a-kind energy financings. A number of the deals on which she has worked have won industry awards.

Relevant experience

bp plc, Equinor and TotalEnergies in relation to the first-of-a-kind circa GBP 4bn project financing of the Northern Endurance Project (NEP) CO2 transportation and storage project located in the Teesside and Humberside regions in the north of England. Part of the Government’s Track 1 cluster sequencing programme, the project comprises onshore and offshore pipeline transportation and geological subsea storage designed to store CO2 from emitters in the East Coast Cluster, including NZT as the cornerstone emitter.*
bp plc and Equinor in relation to the c. GBP 4bn project financing of a first-of-a-kind greenfield 742MW CCGT power plant equipped with carbon capture to provide clean dispatchable power (the NZT Project) and the cornerstone emitter for the NEP CCS Project.*
La Caisse in relation to its successful bid for an equity stake in the Sizewell C nuclear project.*
EIB as a participant in relation to the financing of the NeuConnect Interconnector comprising a high voltage direct current subsea electricity interconnector with anticipated capacity of 1.4GW and a total cable length of 720km, creating the first direct power link between Germany and the UK.*
A confidential client in relation to the financing of a portfolio of BESS assets in Europe.*
bp plc in relation to the funding arrangements for the sale and leaseback of the FPSO for an upstream project in Senegal and Mauritania.*
Black Sea Oil and Gas and its sponsor, Carlyle, in connection with the hybrid project/reserve based lending financing of an upstream gas development in the Black Sea.*
Vitol SA on its interest in the Vitol and eni USD 7bn oil and gas project in Ghana supplying gas for power generation, reportedly the largest single-project foreign direct investment inflow to Ghana since Independence, including advising Vitol on the commercial contracts, the USD 500m IDA-supported letter of credit facility in support of timely payments under the gas offtake arrangements (the largest ever IDA political risk guarantee) and the up to USD 1.65bn senior project financing of Vitol's interest.*

*Prior to joining CMS.

Education

BA, Jurisprudence, Somerville College Oxford.

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

sectors

Energy & Climate Change

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