Burges Salmon has been named Law Firm of the Year at the BusinessGreen
Leaders Awards 2016.
500 executives from across the green economy gathered at The Brewery in
London on Wednesday 6 July to recognise the achievements of the finalists and
winners of the annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.
In presenting the award, the BusinessGreen team noted: “With its focus on
first-of-a-kind clean energy projects, Burges Salmon has carved out a deserved
reputation as one of the UK's greenest law firms. The judges were won over by
the range of the firm's work, offering legal advice on everything from giant
offshore wind farms to small-scale community energy projects.”
Ross Fairley, head of the energy, power and utilities team at Burges Salmon,
said: “We have specialised in and led the market for a number of years in legal
advice to the environmental and energy sectors – and our clients include many
major utilities as well as the highest profile developers in renewables.”
“We are therefore extremely pleased to have been recognised in this way at a
major awards ceremony in front of the key players in the energy and environment
sectors.”
Burges Salmon has built a reputation for cutting-edge legal work supporting
innovative and first-of-a-kind projects, ranging from the largest green
infrastructure to small community owned renewables. Its advice around law and
policy has been crucial in bringing many clean energy projects to fruition. As a
founding member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance (LSA), the firm has
pioneered work with other law firms to tackle climate change, embracing best
practices to measure, reduce and externally report on its carbon footprint.
This latest success follows the firm's energy team being named Advisory Firm
of the Year at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2016, having also won the award
in 2015.