We provide a comprehensive, first-rate, value-added service to our clients, in Italy and abroad.
We work as transaction partners to our clients and closely together with them, aiming to act as an extension of their internal teams. We understand the importance of quick and responsive feedback for our clients, we make sure our communication is always smooth and efficient.
We are inspired by the desire to ‘make things happen’. We always keep in mind what matters most to our clients, leading successful and balanced negotiations strategies and ensuring that these focus on core-aspects only. We advise our clients on what the ‘market’ is and where there may be scope to negotiate further delivering a commercial oriented approach, with the aim of making the negotiation process more efficient.
We are determined to create value-added solutions for our clients. This is strategic to ensure that projects last over time and that we effectively contribute to the energy transition process. Our long experience allows us to benchmark each deal against the best practice, enabling us to provide innovative solutions that will benefit our clients in facilitating transactions and driving the deal forward.
We advise our clients on the most innovative and significant transactions in the energy and infrastructure market.
We act for sponsors, developers, private equity investors, infrastructure funds, debt providers and other strategic participants in the E&I sphere. Our team has combined expertise in all legal areas that are relevant to energy and infrastructure projects, including regulatory, project development, acquisitions and disposals, financing, construction contract and PPAs. Our professionals have advised on projects in Italy, the UK, the US, Romania, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria, Ghana, Namibia, Japan and South America.
Our lawyers have assisted multi-GW developers in the organization and management of innovative sale processes for projects under development, including the first competitive process for these types of projects in Italy as well as the first private equity growth capital transaction in the renewable development space in Italy. We also regularly assist investors in the negotiation and drafting of co-development and joint venture agreements. Furthermore, our lawyers have assisted the bondholder with respect to the first development debt funding for an 840 MWp solar pipeline in Italy through a convertible bond issue.
Key Contacts: Carlo Montella and Andrea Gentili
Our team regularly advises our clients on any matter related to the permitting processes for the construction, connection, and operation of E&I assets, as well as their eligibility for public incentives. With respect to public law, we have resources focusing on public entities, public contract work, tenders, supplies and services, also able to assist clients in the event of litigation. Our lawyers have an in-depth knowledge of every issue related to the Italian infrastructure market, and range with agility from administrative to corporate and financial issues, ensuring a multidisciplinary consulting service. We have also acquired specific knowledge with respect to the Golden Power procedure having assisted public companies and international private companies active in the health, transportation, energy, and telecommunication sectors in the filing of the Golden Power application with the Italian Government.
Key Contacts: Celeste Mellone e Ivano Saltarelli
Our team has been engaged in a broad range of energy and infrastructure transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of totality, majority or minority shareholdings, asset auctions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and company reorganizations. Our lawyers have represented a broad array of private and semi-private companies and equity firms, utilities, infrastructure funds, and other international investors in the energy and infrastructure sector in some of the most sizeable and strategic transactions in the E&I space. Our professionals have handled some of the most noteworthy transactions in the Italian market over the last 10+ years, supporting our clients from structuring transactions, performing extensive due diligences, drafting and negotiating the whole contractual package.
Key Contacts: Carlo Montella and Andrea Gentili
Our team is probably one of the very few in the Italian legal market with resources having extensive legal background dedicated to research and business development and with strong partnerships with leading market and technology advisors. Among various activities, our R&BD team researches and studies the most innovative technologies of the energy industry, prepare reports, articles and newsletters, prepare a daily press review exclusively focused on theItalian renewables energy market that includes all relevant regulatory updates and most relevant news, investigate market insights and trends passing the knowledge to the rest of the team, scout projects being developed in all Italian regions cataloguing them under dedicated data bases, and classify market players under separate dedicated data bases.
Key Contacts: Daria Buonfiglio
We have significant experience in assisting leading Italian and international financial entities, sponsors and investors on the whole range of financing structures (both syndicated and on bilateral basis), including project finance and project bond transactions, asset finance, leasing and mezzanine loan, bond issuance and securitization transactions. Our multidisciplinary approach allows our team to offer a comprehensive assistance in all phases of financing transaction, from risk analysis and allocation, including those related to construction and management of power plants, drafting and negotiation of finance documents, to financial closing. The constant involvement in the main financing transactions in the related market enables our team to provide innovative solutions in financing structures, identify the best and more efficient structures and meet our clients’ needs, including delivery expectations. Thanks to relationship with foreign law firms, we are able to carefully assist our clients, also with multi-jurisdiction teams, in all aspects of project finance and structured finance transactions.
Key Contacts: Maria Teresa Solaro
Our team assist clients in litigation proceedings before administrative and civil courts of all types and degrees, including the Court of Justice of the European Union and arbitration panels, as well as before independent authorities. In our long experience we have drafted and negotiated several settlement agreements including with respect to disputes arisen between owners and contractors in relation to the construction of power plants and participated in international arbitrations on these matters. Members of our team provide specialized out-of-court assistance to public bodies and public and private companies (both listed and unlisted) in all areas of public law. Our track record includes assisting contracting authorities (public and private), public companies (listed and unlisted), individual, grouped or consorted economic operators as well as the Public Administration in thecontext of public procurement in ordinary and special sectors, public works and services concessions, PPP, projectfinancing and project leasing.
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Our team is very active in project construction and project management-related matters. We are one of the few law firms in Italy that has core resources totally dedicated to drafting and negotiating the whole range of project contracts including EPC, BOP, TSA, O&M agreements, service agreements, construction management agreements and PPAs.
Key Contacts Project Contracts: Daria Buonfiglio and Laura Galbiati
Key Contacts PPA: Marcello Montresor and Francesco Palmeri
AmbitionWe are determined to create value-added solutions for our clients. This is strategic to ensure that projects last over time and that we effectively contribute to the energy transition process. Our long experience allows us to benchmark each deal against the best practice, enabling us to provide innovative solutions that will benefit our clients in facilitating transactions and driving the deal forward.
Sustainability is what drives usSustainability shapes the culture and business strategy of our firm, guide our actions, and define our priorities. We aim to contribute to a drastic reduction of human’s impact on the planet to achieve an alignment between the quality of living and the protection of the natural environment.
PragmatismWe are inspired by the desire to ‘make things happen’. We always keep in mind what matters most to our clients, leading successful and balanced negotiations strategies, ensuring that the deal does not get stuck by endless discussions.
IntegrityWe hold ourselves accountable to the highest ethical standards. We do not compromise, under any situation, protecting our clients first and our own reputation. Our team consists of individuals with proven competence, professionalism, and integrity.
RespectHierarchy does not limit approachability; at Green Horse everyone has a voice, and we make sure that each voice is treated with respect and kindness. We aim to focus on what someone brings to the team within a culture that listens and engages collaboration and open discussions.
Excellence: team and work environmentWe understand that our business is built on the strength of our people and our relationships. We strongly believe in the importance of a long-term investment in each member of our team by nurturing everyone’s talent and potential and by offering tailor-made opportunities for growth and development. We aim to identify what motivates each individual and empower her/him accordingly so that she/he can feel achievement and can be part of a productive, high-quality, collaborative, and serene workplace.
We are determined to create value-added solutions for our clients. This is strategic to ensure that projects last over time and that we effectively contribute to the energy transition process. Our long experience allows us to benchmark each deal against the best practice, enabling us to provide innovative solutions that will benefit our clients in facilitating transactions and driving the deal forward.
Sustainability shapes the culture and business strategy of our firm, guide our actions, and define our priorities. We aim to contribute to a drastic reduction of human’s impact on the planet to achieve an alignment between the quality of living and the protection of the natural environment.
We are inspired by the desire to 'make things happen'. We always keep in mind what matters most to our clients, leading successful and balanced negotiations strategies, ensuring that the deal does not get stuck by endless discussions.
We hold ourselves accountable to the highest ethical standards. We do not compromise, under any situation, protecting our clients first and our own reputation. Our team consists of individuals with proven competence, professionalism, and integrity.
Hierarchy does not limit approachability; at Green Horse everyone has a voice, and we make sure that each voice is treated with respect and kindness. We aim to focus on what someone brings to the team within a culture that listens and engages collaboration and open discussions.
We understand that our business is built on the strength of our people and our relationships. We strongly believe in the importance of a long-term investment in each member of our team by nurturing everyone’s talent and potential and by offering tailor-made opportunities for growth and development. We aim to identify what motivates each individual and empower her/him accordingly so that she/he can feel achievement and can be part of a productive, high-quality, collaborative, and serene workplace.
