Liam O'Flynn
Managing Associate | London
“Liam O’Flynn is extremely bright and passionate about the clean energy market."
The Legal 500, 2024
Call: 0345 128 6986 Mobile: 0781 174 9268
About Liam
Liam is a clean energy lawyer, focussing on renewables, clean tech, and sustainability solutions. He specialises in clean energy projects, focussing on commercial, regulatory, and transactional work.
Liam is a named Lawyer in The Legal 500 (2024 edition).
Liam has significant experience advising stakeholders at all levels on complex, interconnected, contractual frameworks across the full energy project lifecycle, from early-stage development, acquisitions, project development and operation, to disposals.
Liam advises a wide range of clients, including debt and equity investors, joint venture partners, asset owners and operators, energy supply companies, corporate offtakers, and asset optimisers, supporting them on transaction structure, management, and execution, due diligence, and contract development.
Liam has previous in-house experience with multiple international energy companies, acting on the development of projects from inception and construction, through to route-to-market and energy and emissions trading.
Liam leads the firm’s hydrogen sector sub-group, utilising his previous experience working with international energy companies on large gas projects, understanding the issues that arise with production, transportation, offtake, and use of gaseous commodities (including hydrogen).
Liam trained at an international law firm and spent five years at a global law firm before joining Freeths in May 2021.
Contact Liam
Call: 0345 128 6986
Mobile: 0781 174 9268
Notable work & expertise
Liam’s experience includes ground- and roof-mounted solar PV, battery storage, energy from waste, electric vehicle infrastructure, CHP, public and private electricity network regulation, and energy services.
His commercial and regulatory expertise includes power purchase agreement, battery optimisation contracts, electricity supply terms, electricity licensing and grid connections. He also has significant experience advising on the acquisition and disposal of energy projects for a range of investors and stakeholders.
Recent Work
- Advising Engie Global Management & Sales on its innovative power purchase and optimisation services contract for one of the UK’s first debt-funded co-located solar and battery storage projects Freeths advises ENGIE | Co-located Solar and Battery Storage Project
- Advising Cambridge Power on its strategic framework with Brookfield Renewables for the delivery of 985MW of battery storage and co-located solar projects: Freeths advise Cambridge Power on framework with Brookfield Renewables.
- Lead associate advising Catalyst Capital on the acquisition of a 100MW battery storage project on the site of the former Skelton Grange power station: Freeths advises Catalyst Capital on acquisition of 100MW UK battery.
- Advising a number of different optimisation services providers and licensed electricity suppliers on their standard form optimisation services contracts and PPAs.
- Lead associate advising a JV between a leading global investor and fund manager with over 330 assets under management, and an energy project developer, on the development of a battery storage project co-located with a clinical waste-to-energy plant.
- Advising a FTSE 100 energy company on the energy regulatory, commercial, and transaction matters around its acquisition of a business-to-business customer book portfolio.
- Advising a state-of-the-art food manufacturing campus in the UK on aspects of its energy procurement strategy and energy-sharing infrastructure (including wind, solar, and heat pumps) to create the most sustainable food production community in the country.
- Advising a FTSE 100 energy company on a range of strategic clean energy acquisitions, part of the company’s ambition to build and develop a portfolio of c. 1GW of clean energy assets by the mid-2020s.
Testimonials
“Liam is efficient, hard-working, catches on quickly, cheerful, willing, good at managing people, [and] looks for opportunities to expand his reper...
Client testimonial, In-house legal counsel
FTSE 100 energy company
“I have been really impressed with his work ethic and advice; it [was] a tough deal and I appreciate the dedication he has shown.”
Client testimonial, General Counsel
FTSE 100 energy trading company
“On many occasions, the team have recognised that he has gone the extra mile to make [the deal] happen…[he] has always acted professionally…and cle...
Client testimonial, Commercial lead
Leading UK supermarket retailer
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