Philippa Bourke

Philippa advises clients on a broad range of domestic and cross-border corporate and M&A transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector.  

• Mandate

  • Advising various UK offshore wind farm projects on the sale of their offshore transmission assets as part of the UK offshore transmission asset disposal regime regulated by Ofgem.
  • Advising Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, through its Flagship Fund, on its strategic divestment of minority interests in the Pentland floating offshore wind project in the UK to Great British Energy, National Wealth Fund and Scottish National Investment Bank, reflecting up to approximately £150 million in investment.
  • Advising Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, through its Flagship Fund, on its acquisition of the Morecambe offshore wind farm project in the UK from Cobra Group and Flotation Energy.
    
  • Advising Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners on its investment in Bute Energy as part of its strategic partnership with Windward Energy. As part of the transaction, CIP (through its flagship fund) has assumed a significant minority position in Bute Energy, Windward's portfolio development company, and will invest approximately £600m in renewable energy projects (including onshore wind farms) under development by Bute Energy in Wales.
  • Advising Ørsted on its divestment of an indirect interest in the operational West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm in the UK to funds managed by Schroders Greencoat for approximately £456.1 million on a debt-free basis.
  • Advising Seagreen Wind Energy Limited, a joint venture owned by SSE Renewables (49%), TotalEnergies (25.5%) and PTTEP (25.5%), on its approximately £600 million sale of the transmission assets of the 1GW Seagreen Phase 1 offshore wind farm to a consortium of Equitix and Kyuden group.
  • Advising Morrison on the English law aspects of its joint venture with EDF for the development of public charging solutions for electric vehicles in France.
  • Advising JERA Co. Inc. on its approximately €1.55 billion acquisition from Virya Energy of offshore wind energy platform Parkwind.
  • Advising Ørsted on its joint venture with ESB to develop an Irish offshore wind portfolio.
  • Advising the shareholders of a pharmaceuticals manufacturing business on the sale of that business by way of competitive auction process to a leading global private equity investor.
  • Advising a leading global private equity investor on its agreement to sell loan portfolios valued at approximately €2.2 billion to a credit servicing firm.
  • Advising a leading growth equity investor in respect of its minority stake investment in a leading Irish software solutions company.
  • Advising a leading global private equity investor on its acquisition of a significant minority stake in an independent fund administration provider.
  • Advising a leading middle-market private equity investor on its US$100 million acquisition of an online corporate banking solutions business.
  • Advising a NASDAQ-listed security software company on its US$360 million migration to NASDAQ by way of a deSPAC business combination, as well as various subsequent capital raises.
  • Advising a leading global contract development and manufacturing company on its acquisition of a leading European provider of pharmaceutical stability storage services.
  • Advising a leading global data storage company on its sale of US$1.5 billion exchangeable senior unsecured notes and privately negotiated capped call option transactions with certain initial purchasers of the notes.
  • Advising the shareholders of a leading Irish health-tech firm in respect of a minority investment in that business by a private equity investor.
  • Advising the shareholders of an Irish SaaS platform provider in respect of a minority investment by a private equity investor.
  • Advising the shareholders of a leading global regulatory and supervisory technology company on the sale of that company to a Nordic Capital company.
  • Advising a leading Irish private lending platform in respect of various capital raises.
  • Advising various international corporations in relation to complex large-scale and multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganisations.

  Please note, Philippa’s experience includes that prior to joining Orrick.