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Steve is the Head of Net Zero at Sharpe Pritchard LLP. Previously at Allen and Overy, he returned to Sharpe Pritchard in 2017.

Steve has extensive experience on regulated and net zero projects. He has acted for investors, utilities, government and innovative developers on all types of projects.

This includes regulated water, where he has experience advising on environmental matters and licence conditions and creating and developing financeable regulated project structures. He has worked on a number of bespoke regulated projects, including in the nuclear sector and in the water sector including on the Thames Tideway Tunnel and Portsmouth Water in developing a unique form of bulk supply arrangement on the Havant Thicket Project. Steve is an expert on regulated asset base delivery models.

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August 26, 2026

Local Government Reorganisation and rethinking corporate structures

Is now the time to rethink your corporate structures? Peter Collins looks at the benefit for local authorities undergoing local government reorganisation in reviewing their arrangements. Local Government Reorganisation is often viewed as a process of transition. It can also be…
August 25, 2026

Local Government Reorganisation and the shareholder role

In the fourth instalment in his five-part series, Peter Collins looks at who will hold the shareholder role after vesting day. One question often receives less attention than it deserves during Local Government Reorganisation. Once the new authority comes into existence, who…
August 25, 2026

Local Government Reorganisation and liabilities

Peter Collins sets out the liabilities councils going through reorgansiation cannot afford to overlook. Corporate structures can sometimes create the impression that assets, contracts and liabilities sit at arm's length from the council itself. In reality, understanding exactly…
August 21, 2026

Reforms to the NSIP Regime (and Beyond…)

James Goldthorpe, Emyr Thomas and Alastair Lewis set out where the government’s Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (“NSIPs”) reforms have reached, the implications of the changes made to date and how the latest consultation “beyond NSIPS” could allow the government…
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