Global Co-Head of Infrastructure and Transport sector
E:andrew.briggs@hoganlovells.com
T:+44 20 7296 2484

With over 20 years of experience, Andrew Briggs, Global Co-Head of the Hogan Lovells' Infrastructure and Transport Industry Sector Group, brings market leading and ranked credentials in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Andrew assists governments, developers, infrastructure funds and financial institutions with complex PPP, infrastructure financing, infrastructure fund management, and corporate finance and M&A of infrastructure and energy businesses.

Andrew works on greenfield development; brownfield financial development; incremental capital expenditure and M&A. He has advised extensively several government departments on infrastructure policy matters.  He has particular experience in the transport, utilities, and renewable energy sectors.  He works with the United Nations on Infrastructure investment policy; he has worked with the G20 and is a board member of many UK based infrastructure and energy policy bodies, including the Infrastructure Forum and the PPP Forum, where he is co-head of the Treasury committee.
Selected experience includes:
Infracapital Partners LP on its acquisition of Kelda Water PLC
Aéroports de Paris Management on the US$874m acquisition of a 38% stake in TAV Airports Holding
Alstom on the €12.4bn sale to GE of its power and grid businesses, and its acquisition of GE’s Intelligent Transportation Solutions business

The UK Department for Transport on the £7bn Intercity Express Programme. The procurement of the East Coast and Great Western mainline rolling stock
Infracapital as the cornerstone investor on the consortium arrangements, development and financing of the £1+ billion Swansea tidal lagoon power project
The lenders supporting a bidding consortium on the £600m Mersey Gateway PFI project
The Cross London Trains Consortium on the refinancing of the £3 billion Thameslink project

The UK Department of Health on its standard form PPP contract, that has been used for nearly 20 years
The part-privatisation of the London Underground network
Numerous infrastructure funds on their establishment, internal management and transaction structuring, including Innisfree, Infracapital, Morgan Stanley, Citi Bank, Deutsche Bank and others

 

 

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Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects
How we help
You may be in the business of energy generation and localised distribution through an investment fund structure or looking to invest in UK infrastructure assets.  That is our business too.  Our leading global infrastructure, energy, resources, and projects practice covers all aspects of such project's lifespan including greenfield development, regulation, PPP/P3, M&A, financing, secondaries, refinancing, restructuring, tax efficient fund structuring and overall investment management.  We have seen and done it all.
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During the past three years, our global team has advised on more than US$250 billion of closed infrastructure deals. Our team works on the largest global projects.
We have the biggest dedicated global team with more than 1,000 years of experience. Many have worked in-house.
We appreciate the commercial drivers.  We are not academic lawyers: we manage risk in the real world environment and we get your deal done.
We are blessed to be housed in one of the largest global law firms with leading supportfrom #1 ranked expert practitioners. We cover all angles in a deal focussed manner.
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You like to make global impact, frequently inventing the wheel. We do too. That's why we are increasingly asked to help bring global game-changer deals to market. Deals that will:
Transform regional trade and hike national GDP
Create transformational technology and new financing techniques
Impact global policy and improve the regulatory environment
Improve people's lives.
Having invented the wheel means you don't pay us to reinvent the wheel on the deals that follow.
Who we help:
Investors
Funds and insurers
Project sponsors
Contractors
Governments
Financial institutions:
International financial institutions
Export credit agencies
Development financial institutions

Relationships and Industry focus:
We have established and work for over 66% of the infrastructure funds that are active in the UK market, and have worked for many more: we have experience of over 375 equity trades in the UK infrastructure and energy market alone
We have excellent contacts to UK Government having worked with the Department of Health; the HM Treasury; the Department for Transport; the Department for Work and Pensions and many others
We know every sector, and have been at the top table on each of them:
We have worked on Hinckley point in the new nuclear sector
We have worked with the DfT on £10bn+ of new rail investment
We wrote the standard from for new healthcare and social infrastructure investment
We've provided critical input to new procurement structures: Thames Tideway in the water sector; Off-shore transmission cable financing; roof-top and bio-mass renewable development
We understand how Government works, so can help international investors navigate the real-world maze that is working in the UK
We have also worked with regulators: we know Ofwat; Ofgem; Ofcom and others: we know how the regulators will respond to any prospective investment

Some of our recent experience includes:
The UK Department for Transport on the £7bn Intercity Express Programme. The procurement of the East Coast and Great Western mainline rolling stock
Three contractors on their EPC bids in relation to the new build UK nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C

The senior lenders to the Macquarie and Ferrovial consortium bidding to acquire Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports from BAA
MLAs supporting the Macquarie/Barclays Private Equity consortium on its bids to acquire all nine of the UK’s Offshore Wind Transmission Opportunities (OFTOs) involving a financing commitment of £1.1bn and advising on the acquisition and financing of four of the successful OFTO bids (Walney I, Walney II, Sheringham Shoal and London Array)

John Laing Environmental Assets Group Limited on the establishment of a fund focused on investments in the UK renewable energy market, including advising on the acquisition of a seed portfolio of 7 wind, solar, waste and wastewater projects (of which 4 are PFIs)
Calvin Capital on the Meter Fit 2, 3, 4 and 5 projects, for the financing of the provision of smart and dumb metering technology. Our advice includes providing assistance in relation to the establishment of the projects, as well as providing ongoing advice concerning day to day project issues

The senior lenders to the Macquarie-led consortium on the financing of the £200 million Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences
The ALSTOM-Drax-BOC and National Grid Consortium ("Capture Power") in relation to the development, implementation and operation of the proposed White Rose oxyfuel power and carbon capture and storage ("CSS") Project
Infracapital as the cornerstone investor on the consortium arrangements, development and financing of the £1+ billion Swansea tidal lagoon power project
Infracapital Partners LP on the £5 billion recommended bid for Kelda Group plc, the holding company of Yorkshire Water

Lenders in connection with the Riverside Resource Recovery Limited and its parent company Cory Environmental Limited on the £570 million Riverside energy from waste (EfW) project at Belvedere
Alstom on the €12.4bn sale to GE of its power and grid businesses, and its acquisition of GE’s Intelligent Transportation Solutions business
Aéroports de Paris Management on the US$874m acquisition of a 38% stake in TAV

Airports Holding
John Laing Environmental Assets Group Limited on establishing a UK energy-focused fund and Dutch Infrastructure Fund on disposing its portfolio of 16 European PPP assets
European Investment Bank on first Concentrated Solar Power project in Morocco (€800m Ouarzazate) and NextEra Energy Resources US$700m Silver State Solar Power South project

The Shah Deniz Consortium (BP, SOCAR, Statoil, Total, and 3 minority parties) on the US$45bn Shah Deniz Phase 2 Gas Project
The Simandou mining project in Guinea is the world’s second largest iron mine and potentially the largest infrastructure project ever developed in Africa
On the +4bn, circa 3,000 km-long West African Rail Loop Project connecting Abidjan to Cotonou via Niamey

Asian Development Bank and banks on financing for the renovation, expansion, operation, and management of the US$750m Mactan-Cebu International Airport
Colorado's High Performance Transportation Enterprise in relation to its PPP project to upgrade U.S. Highway 36

The UK Department of Social Services on the £4 billion PRIME PPP scheme for serviced business accommodation (which included the legal or economic transfer of its entire property estate to the PFI provider) in this precedent setting project
Serco on its successful bid for the Ministry of Defence Defence Business Services ("DBS") Project and associated arrangements with Accenture with a  'virtual' GOCO structure
A bidder for the UK Schools PSBP Aggregator transaction
Investors In The Community (IIC) on the disposal of its portfolio of PFI projects in the UK

The lenders supporting a bidding consortium on the £600m Mersey Gateway PFI project
Advice in relation to the development of the London Gateway port at Shellhaven
A financial institution on its acquisition of a 50% share of Marchwood Power Limited, an 800MW CCGT in Southampton, England
The project sponsors on the expansion of the HMP Thameside project: adding more than 200 additional cells to the 900-bed prison
The Cross London Trains Consortium on the refinancing of the £3 billion Thameslink project

Rift Acquisitions Limited, formed by the consortium of Infracapital and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, on the £1.2 billion acquisition (through a competitive auction) of three UK water businesses from Veolia EnvironmentThe lenders to the Balfour Beatty/Urbaser SA consortium in connection with their successful bid for the Essex County Council Waste Management Project