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Christine Rishton

Principal Associate

Biography

Christine is a commercial solicitor with an extensive range of experience, but a particular focus on advising upon long-term energy infrastructure projects aimed at delivering the Government’s Net Zero Strategy.

There is rightly a global focus upon increasingly lower carbon, smarter and decentralised energy network schemes that will not only bring about environmental advantages but also provide greater energy resilience at a domestic or even local level: the recent energy crisis has highlighted for us all the need to invest nationally in a diverse mix of renewable energy as well as implementing smarter energy management strategies across both the public and private sectors.

Christine helps clients with energy performance contracts and decentralised energy schemes and is looking forward to advising clients on offtake arrangements (in particular corporate power purchase agreements) as more and more non-fuelled energy power stations come on line

Notable cases

Thanks to a background within local government, Christine’s mix of commercial experience is broad, from advising upon the public procurement of public health services and the handling of formal challenges to the same within the Technology and Construction Court, to advising upon the delivery of Superfast Lancashire, which rural broadband scheme was praised for leading the way for delivering superfast broadband to the hardest to reach areas.

More recently Christine has advised in relation to the formation of numerous energy performance contracts funded by way of the public sector decarbonisation scheme for the benefit of a number of NHS trusts. She is a practical and pragmatic solicitor whose solution-focussed approach has ensured the successful closure of a range of projects within chronically short timescales, balancing the needs of each of the interested parties.

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