Niamh advises a broad range of clients across the energy and infrastructure sectors and leads the firm’s Energy and Renewables Sector Group. She brings a wealth of experience in infrastructure delivery, with particular expertise in the energy sector.

In the energy sector, Niamh acts for corporates, developers, sponsors, lenders and new market entrants across the full spectrum of energy technologies, including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery energy storage, energy-from-waste, and conventional generation (including CCGT and OCGT projects). Her work spans the entire project lifecycle, advising on project development, M&A and joint ventures, project finance, regulatory matters, and a wide range of commercial contracts (including power purchase agreements, supply and offtake arrangements, and construction and O&M contracts).

Beyond energy, Niamh has extensive experience advising on major infrastructure transactions, including public-private partnerships and complex development projects across sectors such as education, transport, pharmaceuticals, residential, leisure, and telecoms.

The breadth of Niamh’s experience across energy and infrastructure means that she is uniquely well placed to advise on major projects to ensure successful delivery and bankability.   

Relevant Experience

  • Advising on all aspects of the development of a number of Ireland’s largest portfolios of solar projects totalling over 700MW.
  • Advising a major Irish utility on a renewables portfolio refinancing.
  • Advising on acquisitions, financings and project development of a large number of portfolio onshore wind, battery storage, waste, solar and interconnector projects in Ireland, totalling over 800MW.
  • Advising Partners’ Group and Greenlink Interconnector Limited on the development and disposal of the Greenlink Interconnector.
  • Advising Ørsted on its joint venture with ESB to develop offshore wind projects; advising a Phase 1 offshore project on various regulatory matters and advising investors in respect of transactions in relation to the ORESS and ORESSS 2.1 processes.
  • Advising Encyclis on matters relating to the Dublin Waste to Energy Facility.
  • Advising Energia on various matters, in particular relating to their renewables and conventional generation businesses.
  • Advising the Oweninny Power joint venture on the development and financing of Phases I and II of the 178MW Oweninny Wind Farm project.
  • Advising a number of developers on the development and funding of Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) and Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) power plants.
  • Advising on various aspects (contractual and regulatory) of the roll out of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Ireland.
  • Advising on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), design & build and operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts for multiple energy, infrastructure and pharmaceutical plants in Dublin.
  • Advising daa plc on the main construction contract and ancillary packages for major capital infrastructure projects at Dublin Airport including the second runway project.
  • Advising National Broadband Ireland on the construction contracts for the National Broadband Project.