Matthew is a Partner in the Energy Transition and Infrastructure Finance practice based in London.
Matthew focuses on financing structures used in the PFI/PPP and infrastructure markets. He has a reputation as a versatile finance lawyer, advising across the range of structures used to finance projects, businesses and assets in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors.
His practice is founded in limited recourse project finance and encompasses traditional bank-led project finance, project bonds and other capital markets financings, leveraged and acquisition finance, institutional debt and asset leasing. He also advises on structures involving multilateral lenders such as the EIB and EBRD, state and export credit agency-backed debt, including transactions involving the UK Infrastructure and Projects Authority, and structured and commodity-backed financings, including inventory monetisations, prepayments and receivables or revenue securitisations and monetisations. His experience also extends to commodity hedging.
Matthew is well respected by clients and other lawyers. He is ranked Band 1 for Projects by Chambers UK 2027. Clients describe him as "an excellent and trustworthy partner in complicated and competitive project finance environments" and "a real top lawyer" He is ranked in the Hall of Fame for Infrastructure: Project Finance and a Leading Partner for Power by Legal 500 UK 2027. In addition, he is a recommended individual by IFLR 1000 for banking and project finance; he is also listed in Who’s Who Project Finance.
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Selected matters
- a syndicate of commercial lenders on the Bpifrance covered financing for the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear project in Suffolk, UK (Global Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2025; European Power Deal of the Year, IJGlobal Awards 2025)
- the lenders to the consortium on the £3 billion Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme, the first DPC model project in the UK (Europe Infrastructure Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2025; European Water Deal of the Year, IJGlobal Awards 2025)
- the lenders including EIB, commercial banks and institutional lenders, to LusoLav on Lot A of the Lisbon to Oporto high-speed rail project in Portugal (European PPP Deal of the Year, IJGlobal Awards 2025; European PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2025)
- bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies on the project financing of the North Endurance Partnership (NEP) CO2 transportation and storage project (Global Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2024)
- bp and Equinor on the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) CO2 abated CCGT power project, which will be the cornerstone emitter for the NEP T&S project (Energy Transition Deal of the Year, IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025; Global Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2024)
- a syndicate of lenders including EIB, JBIC and UK Infrastructure Bank, on the development and financing of the proposed NeuConnect 1.4GW HVDC submarine interconnector cable between the UK and Germany (European Power Deal of the Year: Transmission, IJGlobal Awards 2022; European Power Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2022)
- Sponsor counsel to the Macquarie, SK and WeBuild consortium on the US$2.27 billion Rv555 road PPP project in Norway (European PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2022)
- a consortium made up of Intergen, Siemens, Marguerite and Infrared on the acquisition, financing and development of the CfD-backed Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm project in Scotland
- CA-CIB on its structure to enable institutional debt investment in the UK Race Bank offshore wind project in the UK
- EDF and its wholly-owned subsidiary NNB in the £12.1 billion IPA/HMT backed project bond financing for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project in the UK
- the lenders to the successful FCC and Meridiam consortium on the financing of the A465 PPP road project – the first MIM project to reach financial close in the UK (European PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2020)
- the lenders to the successful Cintra, Macquarie and Porr consortium in relation to the development of the €1 billion D4/R7 Bratislava Ring Road PPP project in Slovakia (European PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2016)
- the lenders on the financing of the IJmond Sea Lock PPP project in the Netherlands, a landmark in the market representing a new asset class, and its subsequent restructuring (European PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2015)
- Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay on the development and government revenue support structure for the tidal lagoon power project in Swansea
- Perenco Petroleum on its US$3 billion reserve based leading facility supported by more than 30 upstream interests in Gabon, Guatemala, Columbia, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Congo, the UK and Vietnam
- Citi and the Islamic MLAs an the multi-sourced monetisations of toll revenues from the Salik toll collection system in Dubai, incorporating both conventional and Islamic tranches
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