Chris Mitchell

Partner

About

Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural Resources Financial Services Industrials Infrastructure, Construction and Transport Life Sciences Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Equity Capital Markets

Professional QualificationsBarrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSolicitor registered with the Law Institute of Victoria

EXPERIENCE

Intera Renewables, a leading Australian renewable energy platform backed by Palisade Investment Partners, on the acquisition of 100% interests in two development-stage renewable energy projects in Queensland and Victoria.
The shareholders of ACE Power in respect of the divestment of its ~10GW development portfolio pipeline across wind, storage and solar PV to TagEnergy.
Sosteneo Energy Transition Fund, a global renewable energy asset management fund on its planned acquisition of the Koorangie Energy Storage Project located in North-West Victoria, its first Australian investment. The Koorangie Energy Storage Project is a battery energy storage system with a total capacity of 185MW / 370MWh.
Pacific Green on the project development, acquisition and divestment of its entire development portfolio of BESS projects, including entry into various joint development and procurement arrangements and advising on Limestone Coast North and Limestone Coast West sale processes.
Grupo Cobra on its joint venture arrangements with Essential Energy and Acciona and their successful award to develop, build, own and operate transmission infrastructure for Australia’s first “Renewable Energy Zone” to unlock 4.5GW of renewable energy network capacity.
Akaysha Energy on its winning tender to the NSW government to build the “Waratah Super Battery”, a proposed 1,680MWh grid supporting BESS.
OX2 on its acquisition and development of the Kariboe wind farm project.
BlueFloat on its divestment and joint venture agreement with Origin Energy for a 1.5GW offshore wind development project.
EDF on its joint venture arrangements with Alinta Energy on the proposed development of the 1.5GW Bunbury Offshore Wind Farm.
Akaysha Energy on its joint venturing arrangements with JERA in respect of its proposed 150MW/300MWh Ulinda Park BESS.
BlackRock on its commitment to invest more than AUD1bn to drive the build-out of 1GW of battery energy storage systems across Australia through the acquisition of Akaysha Energy.
Hydrostor on all aspects of its development of a 1600MWh advanced compressed air storage project to be constructed in Broken Hill.
BlackRock on its:
- acquisition of a substantial minority interest in, and provision of portfolio financing arrangements for, JOLT Charge – an EV charging infrastructure company.
- first renewable energy investment in Australia - the acquisition by a fund managed by BlackRock of a majority interest in a portfolio of two large scale solar PV project.
EKU Energy, a BESS developer backed by Macquarie Asset Management, on its acquisition of the development-stage 400 MW / 1600 MWh Belah BESS.
Banpu Energy Australia on its first renewable power investment in Australia - a portfolio of two operating utility scale solar projects in New South Wales from New Energy Solar Limited.