Victoria Inness

Victoria provides corporate advice across a range of matters including, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, company formation, partnerships and LLPs.

Working with corporations, management teams, vendors, purchasers, and debt and equity funders on deals, Victoria’s clients range from innovative start-ups to established corporate groups and utility companies.

Specialising in the infrastructure and renewable energy sector, alongside advising on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects and portfolio management, she supports clients at each stage of the transaction process – with particular expertise in negotiating options, exclusivity agreements, and structuring funding arrangements, due diligence, drafting and negotiating agreements, operation and maintenance contracts, and power offtake agreements, and drafting bespoke documentation.

Examples of Victoria’s work include:

• Advising on the disposal of Northern Hydropower.
• Advising a German bank on a number of transactions, including the largest wind farm off the Scottish coast and one of the world’s biggest solar plants in Abu Dhabi.
• Closing an option to acquire an energy from waste development for an international energy company in the first few weeks of the 2020 lockdown.
• Drafting and negotiating, on behalf of Northumbrian Water, the first corporate power purchase agreement of its kind which sources 30% of its renewable electricity directly from the Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm.
• Advising on the power purchase agreement and contract for difference (CfD) application for the Fort Parkway Renewable Energy Centre in Birmingham.
• Drafting and negotiating the joint venture agreement for Sainsbury’s to become the first UK supermarket to switch to 100% LED lighting in a deal with Current by GE.