Georgia Foulkes-Hartley
Georgia Foulkes-Hartley
Biography
Georgia is a project finance lawyer based in London. She is part of our Energy, Infrastructure and Resources team and has a focus on financings in the renewable energy sector.
She has experience advising sovereigns, lenders, export credit agencies, multilaterals and sponsors on the financing, construction and development of major projects across the United Kingdom, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
Advising:
- Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook) as the sponsor and borrower for the debt financing for Cleve Hill Solar Park, the UK’s largest solar and battery storage project under construction and first to be consented as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
- Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar) on the financing of a 250-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic plant with an integrated 63-MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Bukhara region in Uzbekistan winning IJ Global Renewable Deal of the Year – Solar, APAC and IJ Global Renewable Deal of the Year, MENA 2024
- Lightsource bp on the development of the Enipeas solar project, one of the largest solar projects in Europe (560MWp).
- Balfour Beatty Investments as sponsors – on the bond financing of the University of Sussex’s West Slope student accommodation project
Assisting the team:
- Lenders and ECAs (30 banks and 3 ECAs) in relation to the financing (circa £9.5bn) of the Dogger Bank project (3.6GW) being developed jointly by SSE and Equinor.
- A consortium of lenders and export credit agencies on the project financing of the 1.1GW Seagreen offshore wind farm.
- A consortium of lenders in relation to the refinancing of the Beatrice offshore wind farm project in Scotland.
- FMO, FBL and other lenders on the financing of a 50 MW Lakeside wind power plant in the District Thatta, Sindh.Pakistan.
- Lenders, including JBIC on the financing of Fujairah F3 Independent Power Producer (IPP) project in the United Arab Emirates.
- Lenders on the refinancing of two onshore wind farms with an aggregate capacity of 500MW in Sweden.
Education
Education
Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2020
LLB Law with Politics, University of Manchester, 2017
Admissions
Admissions
- Solicitor qualified in England & Wales