Zachary advises municipalities, federal agencies, sponsors, lenders, and buyers on all stages of large-scale infrastructure projects, including drafting and negotiating concession agreements, procurement documents, and construction contracts and coordinating financing, facilitating joint venture arrangements, and project acquisitions and sales.
Zachary has particularly extensive experience on transport projects, including toll roads, rail, and aviation. Zachary has also advised on water projects and numerous vertical construction projects, including luxury hotels, high-rise apartments, and conventions centers.
Recommended by Legal 500 UK, Emma is described as having “masses of gravitas and great client skills.” Her dedication and hard work are consistently highlighted by clients and peers alike.
Emma has experience in drafting and negotiating employment contracts, consultancy agreements and settlement agreements, as well as staff handbooks and policies. She has extensive experiences in conducting and resolving employment litigation in both the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the High Court. In addition, she frequently advises a mix of high-growth startups and leading global corporations on high-value corporate transactions. She also advises on compliance issues such as the employment aspects of data protection matters and the drafting of Modern Slavery Act statements.
Emma is part of a “very responsive” team, who are “exceptionally good and very highly respected globally.”
Adam has significant experience in transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors, including in oil and gas, hydrogen and ammonia, carbon capture and storage, energy infrastructure, and core and core-plus infrastructure. He has advised clients across the full spectrum of energy and infrastructure assets, including upstream oil and gas assets, gathering and processing facilities, pipelines, carbon storage facilities, gas storage facilities, refined products terminals, toll roads, district energy systems, and water and waste facilities.
He regularly represents domestic and international energy companies, energy and infrastructure private equity funds, midstream companies, and industrial and environmental services companies, among others.
As global demand for energy continues to rise and governments, investors and consumers continue to support the decarbonization of the energy industry, Joe has developed a particular focus on advising large multinational energy companies on energy transition issues, including in connection with investment in hydrogen, ammonia, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy projects and innovations in conventional energy. Joe is a key member of Orrick’s energy transition practice, which was recognized as Band 1 in Energy Transition by Chambers USA (2023-2025).
Joe is recognized by Chambers Global (2023-2025), Chambers USA (2021-2025), The Legal 500 (2018-2025) and Super Lawyers - Rising Stars (2014-2021) for his work on energy transactions. Clients describe him in Chambers as “very responsive, knowledgeable, easy to work with and business-minded” and a “capable and thoughtful transaction leader with a commercial mindset.”
Arden focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, project development and general corporate matters for clients primarily in the oil & gas, renewables and conventional power sectors.
He regularly advises on IPOs, direct listings, follow-ons, de-SPACs, reverse mergers and takeovers on UK, US and European stock exchanges, domestic and cross-border public and private M&A deals, venture capital, private and growth equity investments, debt financings, joint ventures, carve-outs, and restructurings, as well as on governance, disclosure, compliance and strategic advisory matters.
His broad industry experience includes working with clients in the AI and technology, healthcare and life sciences, logistics, retail, media, marketing, financial services, energy and natural resources sectors.
He was recently recognised in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2023, by Financial News as a Rising Star of Legal Services in Europe 2023 and Financial Times at its European Innovative Lawyer Awards 2023.
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