Michelle T Davies

Michelle T Davies specialises in energy transition, sustainability and decarbonised solutions and ESG.

Michelle advises globally. Her clients are those seeking decarbonised and sustainable solutions as well as those providing and financing them and include financial institutions, clean energy and energy transition developers and suppliers, corporates and Governments.

Michelle and her team have advised on many of the sector’s most innovative, important and complex mandates in the climate and sustainability space helping clients across all forms of renewable and clean energy including on and offshore wind, solar, clean hydrogen, biofuels, biomass, energy from waste as well as creating and financing large global decarbonised offtake structures and creating finance vehicles across private and public capital markets. Michelle and her team helped to create some of the first global sustainability funds and green bonds.

Michelle and her team created one of the first ESG focused legal teams advising clients globally on ESG strategies, funding mechanisms, reporting and implementing ESG transition deliverables including contract/documentation repapering, due diligence and M&A structures as well as compliance and governance best practices.

Michelle is focused on helping the sector deliver and sits on many industry bodies including the Policy Committee of the Renewable Energy Association, Chair of the Climate Change Committee Advisory Group, Chair of the REA Finance Steering Group, Climate Bond Initiative Advisory Board, Advisory Boards of Dii and Advisory Board of PLC Energy and the UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources.