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Tom Metcalfe

He/himSenior Associate
Leeds
About
Tom specialises in advising clients on large infrastructure projects in the rail and highways sectors and national and international renewable energy projects, with particular experience in onshore wind, solar developments and power purchase agreements. Tom is also the Leeds Co-Representative for DLA Piper’s Iris Network.
Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural ResourcesInfrastructure, Construction and Transport
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Advised Elgin Energy, a leading international independent solar and storage developer, on the sale of a 519MW portfolio of solar PV projects and 70MW of co-located energy storage capacity. The portfolio sale marked the UK’s largest solar PV transaction to date, including twelve projects at the pre-construction stage located across England, Wales and Scotland, with a combined capacity of 519MW (2022).

  • Advised Prime Capital AG and Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund S.A. SICAV-RAIF on the acquisition of the 192 MW Lappfjärd wind farm from CPC Finland (2021).

  • Advised BASF on the acquisition of 49.5% of Vattenfall’s offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid in The Netherlands.  Once fully operational, the wind farm will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world with 140 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 1.5 Gigawatt (2021).

  • Advised NSG UK Enterprises Limited, part of NSG Group, the world's leading supplier of glass and glazing systems in the business areas of architectural, automotive and creative technology, on their first virtual power purchase agreement.
    The contract will see approximately 100 gigawatt hours (GWh) of NSG Group’s annual electricity demand supplied at a fixed price reducing exposure to the volatile wholesale electricity prices currently seen. This amount of clean energy is equivalent to avoiding the carbon emissions from nearly 15,000 passenger vehicles driven for one year, or more than 278 million kilometres driven by an average passenger car (2021).

  • Advised Prime Capital AG, the independent asset manager and financial services provider, and Enlight Renewable Energy, the Tel-Aviv-listed independent power producer, on their co-investment in the ready-to-build Björnberget wind park project in central Sweden (one of the largest onshore wind projects to start construction in Europe in 2020) (2020).


     
Education
  • University of York, LL.B., First Class Honours, 2012
  • University of York, LL.M., Distinction, 2014
  • University of Law, PGDip (LPC), Distinction, 2015

My latest insights

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DLA Piper advises Elgin Energy on sale of UK’s largest solar portfolio

19 January 2022 .3 minute read

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DLA Piper advises NSG Group on their first virtual power purchase agreement

18 January 2022 .4 minute read

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DLA Piper advises on Prime Capital’s acquisition of the 192MW Lappfjard project in Finland

23 June 2021 .3 minute read

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