The UK government’s game-changing decision to build the first nuclear power plant for a generation has seen Herbert Smith Freehills advise longstanding client EDF Energy on the deal.
The £16bn agreement to build two European pressurised reactors at the Hinkley Point C site in Somerset is the culmination of two and a half years of negotiations between the two parties and Julia Pyke (pictured), a Herbert Smith partner and co-head of the firm’s nuclear group, told Legal Business ‘It has been immensely satisfying to reach this milestone.
