“Nick Churchward is a leading expert in waste-to-energy, biomass, and renewable energy trading arrangements and regulation.”
Legal 500 UK, 2025
About
Nick is a highly experienced energy projects and energy regulatory lawyer, and heads the firm’s Waste and Circular Economy practice. He specialises in energy and revenue contracts, commercial project agreements and legal structuring and coordination as well as energy regulation.
He has significant experience advising on corporate PPAs and other energy trading arrangements. He acts for developers, funders, investors, utilities, government and other public sectors entities as well as commercial and industrial energy users. Nick has advised on energy projects since 2001 and brings his years of experience in energy and infrastructure projects to all types of energy projects and schemes including waste to energy, biogas, hydrogen, biomass, solar, clean heat, waste to fuels/x and carbon capture.
Nick is qualified to practise law in England, Wales and Scotland, and sits on Burges Salmon’s risk management committee. He is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading expert in waste-to-energy, biomass, and renewable energy trading arrangements and regulation.
Experience
- Fulcrum Bioenergy: Advising on its waste to sustainable aviation fuel project.
- Investec Bank plc: Advising on the refinancings of two anaerobic digestion/biogas portfolios.
- University of Oxford and University of Bristol: Advising on clean energy projects.
- Marks and Spencer plc: Providing advice on its 100% renewable UK energy supply arrangements, tradeable energy certificate transactions and its corporate PPA programme.
- Private equity fund: Waste sector legal due diligence on the acquisition of numerous operating waste sector businesses and advising on long term waste offtake and feedstock supply arrangements:
- Revenue support mechanisms, route to market and PPA/GPAs: Advising on numerous corporate PPAs, GPAs, private wire and heat supply and connection agreements, routes to market, revenue support mechanisms and incentives for different technologies.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2000); Scotland (2017)
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