Matthew Bonass

Practice Areas

M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital

Career

I head up our London Corporate team and am co-head of our International Corporate Group. I am also a member of our London Management Team.

I specialise in public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, venture capital and equity capital markets work. I support clients in a number of different sectors, particularly those that are being changed or disrupted by technology. With nearly 30 years' experience working in the energy industry, my primary focus is on energy and utilities transactions, both renewable energy as well as traditional oil and gas, electricity and mining.

I also have strong and longstanding experience in the tech and comms sector, another sector experiencing significant disruption. And in sports law, having acted for a number of sporting bodies and associations, as well as sports investors and teams. Having done a law and language degree, I've always loved my work to be international. I work with clients all over the world, and have spent a number of years in Hong Kong practicing English and Hong Kong corporate law.

Professional Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales;

The Law Society of Hong Kong

Industry Sector Expertise

Energy & Utilities, Sport

Expert in these Jurisdictions

UK; Hong Kong

Languages Spoken

English; French

Education

Work Highlights

• Advised PS Renewables/Padero Solaer Limited on numerous acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures relating to solar and battery storage projects in the UK.

• Advised global energy storage owner-operator BW ESS on their acquisition of the remaining shares of Penso Power. This transaction follows a strategic investment and development partnership with Penso Power in 2021.

• Advised Recurrent Energy (Canadian Solar) on a development services agreement with a developer joint venture partner for the development of solar and battery energy storage plants and the disposal of a number of projects.