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Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects

Helping clients to innovate and maximize returns in global infrastructure, energy, resources, and projects.

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We cover all transactional aspects of a project's lifespan including greenfield development, public-private partnerships (PPPs), M&A, project contracts, financing, secondaries, refinancing, restructuring, and funds. Our expanding IERP group continues offer a world-class service with strength across all regions, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. We have extensive experience across all key sectors.

Our team

In recent years, our global team has advised on over US$250 billion in completed energy and infrastructure deals, including some of the largest and most complex projects worldwide.

Many of our lawyers have held senior in-house roles, giving us an insider’s understanding of both the market and specific industries. We deliver advice that is legally sound, strategically astute, and aligned with commercial drivers. We can help you anticipate challenges, seize opportunities and achieve your goals.

Our clients

Our experience and client base are both global and diverse. We regularly handle our clients' most important matters around the world. We frequently advise:

Project sponsors
Investors
Contractors
Funds and insurers
Governments
Financial institutions
Commercial banks and alternative lenders
International financial institutions
Export credit agencies
Development financial institutions

Global change makers

Our clients often work at the forefront of innovation and regularly ask us to support them on game-changing deals and market-first projects.

We help our clients to create transformational technologies and adopt new financing techniques. Our work often transforms regional trade and enhances economies around the world. Our world-class skills and knowledge help us to impact global policy and improve regulatory environments. We thrive on boosting our clients’ businesses and improving people’s lives.

We are adept at anticipating the legal and commercial challenges clients may face. We flourish in structuring effective solutions and navigating evolving policy landscapes. Our integrated approach helps clients bring pioneering energy projects to life with confidence and efficiency.

Greenfield development

PPP/P3

M&A and joint ventures

Project contracts

Project finance

Engineering, procurement, construction, and supply chain

Operation and maintenance, facilities management, services and commercial

Regulated industries and utilities

Secondary markets and co-investments

Distressed asset management, refinancing, and restructuring

Funds

DFIs, ECAs and multilaterals

Project dispute resolution

Commodities

Africa Practice

Latin America

Our team guides clients through the entire lifecycle of greenfield development. With an excellent record in some of the world’s most complex and high-profile developments, we know how to align risk, investment, and opportunity to turn ambitious visions into operational reality.

We understand the complexity and sophistication of infrastructure and PPP/P3 transactions. We also recognize how to simplify this for our clients and other parties involved – especially those unfamiliar with the structures and the requirements for completing successful transactions.

Our infrastructure and PPP/P3 practice has considerable experience advising on projects in both established and developing markets. We also have deep knowledge in a broad range of industry sectors, including transportation, satellite, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure, among others.

We have an established record in some of the most important and precedent-setting PPP/P3 infrastructure projects across the globe. We offer clients a rare combination of gold-standard legal services delivered as a fully integrated package with all other legal disciplines relevant to a PPP/P3 project.

PPPs including P3 and PFI and Government Contracts

Knowledge of the assets and the sector you work in is key, along with understanding the market - sellers, buyers, and advisors alike. We advise clients, both buy-side and sell-side, and have experience with a wide range of sale processes. We understand the environment and how to get deals over the line. We have a proven track record of successful outcomes for clients.

Our dedicated team is made up of experienced corporate and finance lawyers who are embedded in our wider infrastructure and energy practice. We are exceptional in combining legal knowledge, commercial experience, and industry knowledge in one coordinated team.

MandA and Joint Ventures

Our team delivers strategic support on the contracts that make projects happen. We draft and negotiate bankable agreements across the entire lifecycle of projects, including EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction), O&M (Operation and Maintenance), PPA (Power Purchase Agreement), offtake, and supply that balance risk and reward, align with financing requirements, and stand up to real-world pressures. Our lawyers understand both the legal and commercial levers - ensuring agreements are clear, enforceable, and commercially advantageous.

Our project finance capabilities, coupled with our exceptional industry sector experience in virtually every project and infrastructure asset class, enable us to provide seamless, seasoned and cost-efficient advice to our clients at every step of a project financing.

Our clients include sponsors, companies, private developers, private equity and infrastructure funds, investors, energy companies and lenders, engaged in all phases of the development, financing, and acquisition or divestiture of energy and infrastructure projects.

We have represented lenders/borrowers in bank financings (club and syndicated), tax equity transactions, construction-to-term loans, bridge financings, 144A transactions, private placements, term loan B financings, refinancings, mezzanine financings, and subordinated financings.

Project Finance DFI and ECA Finance

New structures and approaches are bringing new risks and opportunities.

Our engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) team advises on projects in diverse sectors ranging from mining to residential property, right across the globe. Embedded within our broader projects and infrastructure team, we leverage deep sector knowledge, multidisciplinary expertise, and global experience to deliver commercially focused, practical solutions at every stage of the project lifecycle.

We act for developers, contractors, consultants, and supply chain participants across the private sector. Our team understands the nuances of the different procurement techniques currently used in the market, and can guide you throughout the process, from tendering to agreement of contract terms.

Engineering Procurement Construction Supply Chain

Whether it’s preventative maintenance, lifecycle replacement, or sourcing personnel to manage your assets, we have the right solutions to ensure you get the best return on your investment. We have been advising clients on worldwide asset operation and management issues for decades, across a range of sectors.

Our clients include funds, facility operators, owners, and lenders, as well as service providers, maintenance companies, and consultants. Our approach is to understand your needs and challenges, so we can work with you to find the perfect solution.

Operation Maintenance Facilities Management Services Commercial

Regulation can anchor investment, but it can also drain returns. We create informed and innovative approaches to regulation to ensure our clients can grow and maximize yields.

Our leading global regulated industries and utilities team covers the full range of regulatory, development, financing, and M&A issues.

We regularly advise on the market’s most high-profile deals in energy, transport, and water. Our team combines deep technical and industry knowledge with a commercial focus. We can help you prosper in the fast-changing regulatory environment. We will work with you to achieve the best outcome in your price control reviews, while helping you to optimize your business model, financing structures, and investor returns within your regulated settlement.

Regulated Industries and Utilities

Secondary markets attract a wide range of participants, including investors, funds, and financial institutions. Navigating regulatory hurdles, deal structures, and execution can be an immense challenge, so we always look to address these interconnected issues from a holistic standpoint.

We advise buyers and sellers of infrastructure interests in the secondary market. We act on individual asset trades as well as large, complex portfolio deals and pure-play secondary trades. With global reach, market insight, and industry knowledge, we know the asset classes and transaction types. We are passionate about maintaining relationships with the key industry players throughout the world.

Secondary Markets and Secondaries

Businesses are always faced with difficult challenges, whether it is adverse liquidity movements, regulatory upheaval, depressed investor sentiment, and other unwanted surprises.

We provide practical guidance at every stage of a project's lifespan. Our multidisciplinary team encompasses lawyers experienced in projects, business restructuring and insolvency, fund restructuring, refinancing, asset management, and dispute resolution.

We cover the full range of distressed asset scenarios, including day-to-day operational difficulties, contentious and non-contentious contract variations, distressed asset renegotiations and restructurings, rescue refinancings and equity injections, major project disputes, termination, security enforcement, and insolvency.

Distressed Asset Management Refinancing and Restructuring

Our team supports funds throughout the entire investment lifecycle, from structuring and raising capital to executing acquisitions, disposals, and portfolio management. We advise on fund formation, regulatory compliance, co-investment arrangements, and innovative financing structures tailored to energy and infrastructure assets. Our global reach and sector depth help funds identify and secure high-quality opportunities, navigate complex jurisdictions, and manage risk across diverse portfolios. Whether deploying capital into greenfield developments, operating assets, or platform investments, we deliver practical, commercially focused advice that drives returns and protects value.

Investment Funds

Infrastructure is a primary engine of global growth. Political, economic, and social inclusion drivers are pushing infrastructure to the forefront of national and international priorities.

We handle challenging project finance work for sponsors, lender governments, and other stakeholders. These include development finance institutions (DFIs), export credit agencies (ECAs), and sovereign wealth funds. Like them, we create new markets, providing the knowledge and tools to help clients meet their investment objectives.

Complex and high-value infrastructure and energy disputes require rapid and effective resolution, wherever they occur in the world.

Our exceptional infrastructure disputes lawyers have a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes for our clients in all industry sectors and geographies. Clients turn to us to manage and resolve their most significant disputes, recognizing our experience in resolving disputes through court proceedings, arbitrations, expert determinations, mediation, and all other forms of alternative dispute resolution. We deliver results.

We understand the pressures of your market, whether it is market volatility, increased regulation, or licensing challenges, along with price volatility, there is a huge focus on licensing and regulation, including Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT), Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) in the European Union (EU) and Dodd Frank in the United States (U.S.). Together with our financial services regulatory team we can help you meet these regulatory challenges on both sides of the Atlantic.

We advise on trading documentation for oil, gas, power, metals, liquefied natural gas (LNG), soft commodities, establishment of trading platforms, credit risk management, and contract performance/dispute resolution. We structure trading transactions and monetization across all energy commodities and advise on physical settlement and derivatives.

We work closely with our trade finance team, providing full coverage on commodities export financings.

We are committed to building business in Africa and have more than 30 years of experience on the continent.

We offer the full spectrum of legal services in Africa and regularly advise on large infrastructure and energy projects, multi-party PPP and project financing, complex Islamic financing, FINTEC, and private equity transactions specifically for African investors.

Our unified global team has the know-how and cultural understanding necessary to support English, French, and Portuguese-speaking Africa from our global offices. We have an in-depth understanding of Africa and are proud of our extensive track-record of working in the region.

Africa Regional Practice

Our team has been involved in the development, acquisition, and financing of major assets throughout Latin America. We have represented many of the largest sponsors, developers, investment banks, and other financial institutions on some of the region’s most significant energy, infrastructure, toll road, rail, airport, and other project financings. We are a multicultural and multilingual group that provides legal services to clients all over Latin America and the Caribbean as well as to Latin American clients around the world.

Latin America Regional Practice

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

Hogan Lovells has strong lawyers who collaborate to provide practical and skilled advice on energy projects and transactions.

Chambers Global 2025, Projects & Energy (client quote)

They get the work done, putting together an exceptional team. They have the right local counsel relationships in Africa which are very beneficial to our transactions.

Chambers Global 2025, Projects & Energy (client quote)

Hogan Lovells is an outstanding law firm and adviser to us.

Chambers Germany 2025, Energy (client quote)

Hogan Lovells are a commercially-minded law firm with the client in the center of everything. The team is very good at handling complex work and always responded with a diligent and prudent answer.

Chambers Global 2025, Projects: Agency Financing (client quote)

Hogan Lovells has a great ability to handle complex transactions and has a good bench of specialists that can come into play whenever needed.

Chambers Global 2025, Projects: Agency Financing (client quote)

Hogan Lovells has a strong team of partners and associates in their respective areas of specialty. They provide a practical delivery of solutions to project-related issues.

Chambers Global 2025, Projects: Mainly International (client quote)

The team really takes care of the client. They are very quick to adapt to changes.

Chambers Global 2025, Projects: Mainly International (client quote)

Hogan Lovells are client-focused and provide innovative solutions. They are very quick at responding when needed, especially in the midst of changes to the energy landscape in Mexico.

Chambers Latin America 2025, Energy & Natural Resources (client quote)

Hogan Lovells' ability to understand and keep up with commercial aspects of arrangements always goes hand in hand with its legal expertise.

Chambers Global 2025, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas (client quote)

Key contacts

Dr. Tobias Faber

Partner

Dr. Tobias Faber

Partner

Frankfurt

Jorge Diaz-Silveira

Office Managing Partner

Jorge Diaz-Silveira

Office Managing Partner

Miami

Matt Bubb

Singapore

Meet the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects team

How we’ve helped our clients succeed

Pioneering fusion: Guiding Helion in world’s first fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft

Pioneering fusion Guiding Helion in worlds first fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft

K Royal Navy submarine on the surface, showcasing the impact of the historic Unity agreement—securing national defence, driving innovation, and strengthening global alliances through Rolls-Royce Submarines’ strategic partnership with global law firm Hogan Lovells.

Executing the largest defence contract in UK history with Rolls-Royce Submarines

Powering a sustainable future with major clean energy projects

Helping our clients develop major infrastructure projects for a sustainable clean energy future

Representative experience

China Baowu Steel Group on its investment in the Simandou mining and infrastructure (rail and port) project in the Republic of Guinea, reportedly the largest project of its kind in Africa at the time. (Impact Deal: Project – IFLR Awards 2025 (Africa); Deals of the Year: Projects – China Business Law Journal 2024)

Rolls-Royce on the landmark US$11bn “Unity” contract, the largest UK defense contract ever, to power the next generations of nuclear submarines for the UK Royal Navy.

ORLEN and Northland Power Inc. on the development and €4.4bn financing of the Baltic Power offshore wind project in Poland. The first offshore wind farm to be built in Poland (Outstanding Offshore Wind Deal – inspiratia Europe Energy Transition Awards 2024; Renewables Energy Deal of the Year: Offshore Wind – IJGlobal Awards 2023 (Europe); Deal of the Year: Project Finance – PFI Awards 2023 (Europe)).

National Wealth Fund (previously UK Infrastructure Bank), the UK state-owned infrastructure development bank, on its £150m financing tranche into the €2.7bn Neuconnect Energy Interconnector Project between UK and Germany – a landmark deal in the energy transmission sector (Power Deal of the Year – IFLR Awards 2023 (Europe); Power Deal of the Year: Transmission – IJGlobal Awards 2022 (Europe)).

SVEVIND Energy GmbH on the realization of one of the five largest hydrogen projects in the world. The project will generate green hydrogen from renewable energies and contribute significantly to the decarbonization of the industry (Contracts Project of the Year: Merit Award – FIDIC Contract Users’ Awards 2023).

Proparco and Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund on the financing of Dakar's future 100% electric BRT bus network, operated by Dakar Mobilité (ESG PPP Award – IJGlobal ESG Awards 2024 (Africa); Projects Deal of the Year – IFLR Awards 2024 (Africa)).

TC Energy on the consolidation and expansion of Natural Gas Transportation Agreement in conjunction with the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission, under which natural gas will be supplied to the southwest and central Mexico.

JX Nippon on the development and financing of the Petra Nova CO2 processing facility, CO2 pipeline, and gas fired peaking plant, and a related oil and gas (enhanced oil recovery) project. The work included the JBIC project financing, and mezzanine financing, and currently includes converting the project to permanent CO2 sequestration and a possible tax equity investment for the project.

Helion Energy on the first of its kind commercial fusion project to provide Microsoft with electricity from Helion’s first fusion power plant, with a target capacity of at least 50 megawatts (MW), and with Constellation Energy serving as the power marketer.

The Shah Deniz Consortium (led by BP and SOCAR) on all aspects of the US$40bn Shah Deniz gas project in Azerbaijan and new 3,500km Southern Gas Corridor to Italy, described as “the world’s single largest, non-military infrastructure project.”

The Consortium (including WTE Wassertechnik and International Financial Advisors) on the successful bidding process, the construction, financing, operation, the investment agreement and financial close of the Umm Al-Hayman PPP project, one of the world’s largest wastewater projects. (PPP Deal of the Year – PFI Awards 2020 (Middle East)).

Verkor on its record financing of more than €2bn to launch the Verkor Innovation Centre, a high-performance battery gigafactory in Dunkirk, France, to accelerate future sustainable mobility (Outstanding Gigafactory Deal – inspiratia Europe Energy Transition 2024).

Infracapital on its investment in the battery storage and electric transportation transformation business, Zenobē Energy, and in connection with the introduction of KKR as an investor into Zenobē and Infracapital’s strategic partnership with KKR to support the growth of Zenobē (Outstanding M&A Deal – inspiratia Europe Energy Transition Awards 2024; Energy Transition Acquisition of the Year – IJInvestor Awards 2024 (Europe); ESG Infrastructure Deal of the Year – IJGlobal ESG Awards 2021 (Europe)).

Northland Power Inc. and Yushan Energy Company Ltd on the development of the €3.4bn Hai Long offshore windfarm in Taiwan (Project Finance Deal of the Year – IFLR Awards 2024 (Asia-Pacific); Renewable Energy Deal of the Year – IJGlobal Awards 2023 (Asia-Pacific); Offshore Wind Deal of the Year – PFI Awards 2023 (Asia-Pacific)).

The Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Finance and the National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan in connection with a US$1.1bn pathfinder project for the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a 1,600MW CCGT Plant in Syrdarya, Uzbekistan (PPP Deal of the Year: Power – IJGlobal Awards 2023 (Asia-Pacific); Central Asian Deal of the Year Award – PFI Awards 2023 (Asia-Pacific)).

National Wealth Fund (formerly UK Infrastructure Bank) on its investment to Highview Power in connection with its development of a 50MW/250MWh liquid-air cryogenic energy storage facility in Carrington Village, United Kingdom (Market Impact Award - IJGlobal Awards 2024 (Europe).

U.S. and Canadian utility-scale energy storage project developer, esVolta, on the successful sale of its company to Generate Capital, including 500 MWh of contracted energy storage projects and a development pipeline of over nine gigawatt hours (GWh) of additional projects.

Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. on a bond issuance to refinance a portion of the costs relating to the New Terminal One Project of John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City (Transport Deal of the Year – IJGlobal Awards 2023 (Americas)).

Asian Development Bank, GuarantCo, and Munich Re on the US$160m satellite project financing of the Asia-Pacific Remote Broadband Internet Satellite Project (Kacific1) (Telecoms Deal of the Year – IJGlobal Awards 2019 (Asia-Pacific)).

The Government of The Bahamas on a series of significant energy transactions aimed at enhancing power generation and energy sustainability across the islands.

Awards and recognitions

Multi-Jurisdictional, Projects & Energy

Chambers Global

Projects: Band 1

Chambers Germany

Projects: Mainly International

Chambers UK

Infrastructure

Chambers UK

Projects: Agency Financing

Chambers USA

Projects & Infrastructure

Chambers Asia-Pacific

Projects & Energy, Africa-wide

Chambers Global

Team of the Year: Infrastructure

IFLR Awards (Africa)

2025

Law Firm of the Year: Energy Industry

JUVE Awards

2024

ESG Legal Advisor (Global)

IJGlobal ESG Awards

2023

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