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Emma Roberts

Pinsent Masons

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Position: Director
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
South Africa
Practice Areas:
Project finance
Project development
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Energy
Construction and materials
Natural resources
Languages:
English
Biography

Emma is a director in the firm's Projects and Infrastructure practice and has experience acting for both the public and private sector. Her areas of speciality extend to energy law (including technologies of coal, wind, solar CSP, solar PV, landfill, biomass, gas, thermal energy, hydro, natural gas, carbon capture, and other renewables) and construction. She has experience in multiple jurisdictions, including South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.

Recent transactional highlights

• Acting for various developers and financiers in respect of the installation and lease of solar PV rooftop panels in South Africa;

• Advising the Government of Ethiopia in the development of a procurement programme for a 100MW PV plant and a 280MW hydro plant;

• Advised BioTherm Energy in respect of the development of various wind farms and solar farms under the Department of Energy's renewable energy IPP Procurement Programme;

• Advising Eskom in respect of the IPP Procurement Cogeneration Programme and IPP Procurement Coal Baseload Programme.

Practice areas

• PPP/PFI

• Private equity

• Project finance

Sector specialisations

• Construction and materials

• Energy

• Industrials

• Natural resources

• Oil and gas

• Utilities

Bar admissions

South Africa

Association memberships

Law Society of the Northern Provinces

Academic qualifications

BA (Economics and Law), Rhodes University

LLB, Rhodes University, Rhodes University